Shaarei Teshuva 1:19 & 20 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] a conservative no i'm not even going to mention that because it's not even about i don't want it's about corruption as opposed to right left conservative uh morals comes to you know the seven laws of noah america is a are called a christian country i'll call it a gentile country it's not our country for hashem they're very kind they're nice it's the toshiba asash i say but um okay let's start ready here we go welcome everybody once again to the shahree truvakura and i invite you to listen to last week's class and because this is basically a continuation to a great extent now politics is a hot topic and i just want to reiterate what i've been saying for the last few weeks before the election was what i believe the torah requires of of non-jews as well especially non-jews because america is what uh what do you say 99.8 not jewish honestly or maybe i'm wrong anyway it's about 2 percent jewish the population the united states of america but i did mention that the idea is that at least today maybe tomorrow won't it'll change but whoever is the leader of america seems to be the leader of the free world and has a lot of influence and if you have a vote my suggestion was to take that privilege and responsibility and um vote responsibly and that would have been to vote for the least corrupt official because he and the least president of the united states has the ability to choose as we know now know in case you didn't know a supreme court associate which has to do with keeping law in order so whoever you should vote for would have voted for hopefully he did vote for was for the one candidate that stands for law and order and to get rid of corruption and that's really the bottom line uh you know we think about mashiach that's a whole other story right whoever is going to be the president of the united states is not the messiah although may have a a messianic role because we know that cyrus right was the persian king and he gave a taxi he gave a budget and he demanded at some point that the temple should be built and i mentioned besides looking for a leader who is least corrupt because you're basically talking about the choosing the better of two evils right when any anytime you're going to vote for a politician because politicians are basically politicians not only to go and describe uh what i mean you're choosing the best of two evils which means the least corrupt and also who's good for the jews meaning who's good for the world because whatever happens to the jews is going to be good for the world so i said just try to imagine out of the candidates who would say in their mind okay i'm going to make a taxi i'm going to put a budget i'm a builder and i want to see the temple built in jerusalem if you can imagine one of those candidates that's who i suggested you should vote for that's it it's it's really simple okay so what happened since then is that there still has not yet been determined an official uh outcome honestly it's not up to the media that's part of the corruption i'm sorry to say and i don't mean to wear out this term fake news but there is a lot of corruption going on and we'll call high tech in in the political sphere and um and that's all i have to say okay so basically the outcome is not determined by the media okay it's not and we'll have to see and as true as someone who's fighting for justice if the candidate is the one who's you'll see it for your own self who's willing to cover up and who's willing to uncover and this is what we're going to deal with today okay we're going to deal i couldn't imagine right when we deal with the parashat to shavua we're going to deal with khayasara there's going to be something in the parsha that deals with uh current events and in where we're at in chapter one right char olive uh we're now dealing with um paragraphs 19 and 20. there's no question if you're god conscious everything every torah that you learn you'll see things that relate to the current events i guarantee it okay that's my promise to you and if you can't find it give me a call and we'll discuss it and we'll find out how okay chapter nine i'm sorry paragraph 19. it begins by um referring to a quote that we spoke about last week you'll find this in proverbs michele 28 13 he who conceals his sins will not succeed come on this is the parsha all right this is what the current events but he who confesses and abandons them will obtain mercy and what we mean by mercy we're talking about atonement right as in hebrew it says and the last part is let's start from the beginning of the verse basically of one who covers over his sins now there's a difference we talked about last week people who sin in public versus people who sit in private okay so if god forbid someone who sinned in public so basically that kind of confession should be spoken about in public because it was known but we jews don't normally confess our sins in public right uh or even to another human being we confess directly to hashem so if it was in private and it had to do with a sin against hashem so we go and we reveal it only to hashem if it was to another human being in private we reveal it only to the person who we sinned in asking for forgiveness or in terms of making retribution is that the right restitution restitution okay but when it's done in public it depends right if people know that you sinned it would be a kidus hashem the opposite of hashem to then let people know that you're you're you've changed and how do they know you've changed because you admitted it it's part of your the process again there are three major um what called categories you know that you must go through if you want to do chuva properly and that is just become familiar with the terms kharatta which is regret which is confession and then azir the re not just the removal right the conviction not to continue in the same path we're going to call that abandoning the sin okay that's how they translate it abandoning the sin okay with that in mind he only quotes the last part of the verse which says um you will have your rook just read rashi it says but he who confesses and abandons meaning he confesses his sins and abandons them never returned to them the the second part called as eva means you've convicted you have a conviction strong conviction not to go back now let me ask you something if someone confesses remember we said there were three parts what what happened to the karate what happened to the regret so the understanding in this verse is that when it says um confession it includes it includes the karate because why else would someone confess their sins if they didn't have the regret it's it's in other words it's like a given okay it's understood as within and that's how ravino yona will explain it watch what he says perush the explanation is the fundamental principles of doing truth includes three major concepts which we just said okay which he translates here as forsaking the sin i'm going to read the con the the comment here these three principles comprise basic chuva now before we get into in the beginning this is i think the 10th or 11th i think it's the 10th in the series go back to the beginning we explained in the introduction that even though there are three major principles that we just spoke about there are actually 20 categories that the robano yeon explains because if you want to do chuva properly write mahadri minima hydrogen right you want to do it in the most complete fashion he breaks it down in many different steps people skip steps they don't fully comprehend what karate is they don't fully comprehend what vidue is whereas so he breaks it down into 20 called principles or steps so don't get don't be overwhelmed oh my god there's i thought it was just three there are these three major categories of how to do true everyone agrees with them but roberto yonah goes out of his way that's what this book is about right is about how to perfect and become a real uh a real having a real intimate relationship with hashem because what is it comes between you and hashem right it causes this barrier and we want to remove the barrier or we want to go back to where we came from chuva the concept of shuv is to return right that's a better translation to return so we want to return to that intimate relationship that we had with him maybe from before we were born right so we want to be totally clean and this is how it's done through these three um these three steps now he says although the verse mentions only one um i'm sorry one who confesses and forsakes sin in other words it only mentions two out of the three which we said was really um um which we said was confession and and forsaken the sin but he says right here just you should know that this idea of kharata is included in the one who confesses as i just mentioned it's a given if you're going to confess it means that you already have passed that stage or included in that stage of of regretting what you've done so now all three foundations of chuva are mentioned here they ain't sure what's the word means less than or minus right we also use that to describe the error of rav by the way because of the the inferior ones they're the lesser ones so he basically says you cannot have a valid chuva less than these three in other words it's very important to know if you want to there's a fourth stage that he doesn't describe now but we all know right if you want to know how do you know that you actually did chuva so the discussion in the gomorrah is that if you actually are in the same place with the same desires with the same situation in this case it describes it as being with the same woman but it doesn't matter the same setup the same desires the same opportunities and guess what you didn't do it you held yourself back then you know that you have done true that's like uh you know lick a star on the wall i have accomplished it but the big problem with thinking that you've accomplished something is what we're going to talk about tonight because you can never you should never be you have to always be on guard you should never be overconfident and this is something that i was thinking about with trump i'll mention trump no matter what people think about him if god what god does it's amazing what he does he loves us all and he wants to see us succeed so sometimes if we get too hardy or we get too arrogant we get too ahead of ourselves or full of ourselves he'll bring us down to the point where we're very lonely and that's a good place and he raises the humble he raises the lowly so if we can be honest with ourselves if we can get to the point of true honesty then we can be brought up so perhaps that's what's happening and it happened maybe you know he thought it was an easy breeze maybe maybe and you know he didn't have to work so hard who knows only god knows and he knows but on the other side whoever the other side is we're not going to mention any names hashem builds them up builds them up because the bigger you are as we all know the harder you fall right and this is hashem's way of showing justice so for the other side whichever the other side is i don't even know anymore i'm kidding but basically to build the other side up to the point where they're so full of themselves can you imagine and the the drop and the only way that could happen is if there is as we're discussing here a revelation of the sin with the sin is corruption and hopefully we'll see it and then we'll be able to get beyond it and and clean up as they say cleaning up the swamp which i think was one of this candidate one of the candidates um motto free for his whole election in in 2016 was he want to clean up the swamp so that is a holy act that is a godly act and the person himself may we don't know only only god knows and he knows how godly he is right but i think that was a a worthy and honorable gesture on his part because it's a pretty hard thing to do and what i saw in the 2016 pre-elections the preliminaries um primaries it was a miracle there was no way he was getting in it was a joke everyone thought it was a joke and yet this guy ended up on the ticket it was unbelievable and if you thought that was a miracle then wait you ain't you you're in for a big surprise what's going to happen now because it but there's no way this guy's getting in without a miracle and if a miracle if if it occurs because it's up to hashem he might say it's not worthy maybe the people aren't worthy maybe whatever but if if if a miracle does occur it will be a much bigger miracle what is the word miracle in hebrew nace nace is a st it's a paw a stick that's held up high like a flagpole so that everyone can see it so that's what a miracle is so when things look so black and so bleak i know right then then a miracle happens it should be it should be visible and acknowledged by everyone even we'll call the other side of this route hashem so do i do suggest there are some rabbis to listen to rabbi kessler that's one of them there's a few others maybe i'll put them in the link down below because hashem i won't forget to talk about the politics but listen to the words right we're getting into this whole idea that basically it's like this if someone actually goes through the process where they have a karate they have some kind of regret and they confess it but they don't forsake the sin meaning they're still holding on i'm using my hand for a purpose they're still holding on to the sin doing the me though the sheriff's biado it's likened it's similar it's analogous to someone who goes into a mikvah mikvah is that a pool of purity the water purity in order to come out clean but what are they doing they're going down while they're holding a rat in their hand or a weasel right there's eight different kinds of of rodents rodent-like things that are categorized and you can find that i'll tell you where if you go into leviticus chapter 11 verses 29 through it describes the eight different types uh here i'll just read it here and this is unclean for you among the creeping creatures on the ground the weasel the mouse the toad after its species the hedgehog chameleon the lizard the snail and the mole these are the ones that are unclean for you among all the creeping creatures anyone who touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening now the truth is this doesn't really apply to every single jew it has to do with the khaneen eating the holy food which we don't give to them today because we don't know who the it's a long story we don't exactly know who the konim are and even if we do they're not in a state of cleanliness but basically there is a way to become clean but in the process in the in the meantime we're we're really when the shia comes and we're back in the land and we have the temple these laws will be in in in effect okay and there are yeshivos today of kawanim who just spend most of their day studying these laws and and so because most yeshivas are only learning what's practical like laws of marriage right laws of kashrut laws of shabbos right practical laws and the gemaras that apply you know rosh hashanah the modem so but there are barak hashem you know people who learn englishman right they're learning just for the sake of learning and they're learning all these are called theoretical issues anyway just to get an idea i'll just rewrap you on that all these statements of uncleanliness are not refr referring to the prohibition of eating although you're not allowed to eat any of these eight animals but rather to actual uncleanliness meaning that the person will become unclean by touching them and he will const consequently be prohibited from eating the truman that's the food given to the colleen a portion of one's produce that's given to the cohen and the holy sacrifices from entering the sanctuary so it's really not because it's relating to the temple it isn't that relevant but you have to learn it we have the men have to learn it the women are learning more practical things as well okay yes when it says not to touch them does it say only not to touch them when they're dead when they're dead when they're dead so basically listen if your chabad you would never have a pet of wanting anything that's unclean that's just a side note um it's it's not a problem if they're alive okay so basically the idea you become you become unclean by touching them when they are dead now and there is something i wanted to mention i'm not sure where but i'll do it anyway right now if you go to the source in deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 11 it says for this commandment like which i command you this day is not concealed from you nor is it far away in hebrew we think when we read this passage that we're talking about the entire torah for this torah which i command you today this mitzvah but it is singular it doesn't say mitzvot plural is not hidden from you nor is it far from you so the ramban holds this particular passage this particular plastic this particular mitzvah is talking about chuva chuva this mitzvah called chuva that i am commanding you today is not far from you it's not hidden from you it's totally possible so don't think that this is something that is beyond you right the whole idea of shari truth is to bring us to a higher level or a deeper level to mo more profound level of truva it's all within reach okay i just wanted to mention that and the the ramban goes and it explains that point okay so the last thing we said was if you went into the mikva holding this you imagine right when a woman goes to the mikvah she checks to her skin with scabs and she cleans her fingernails anything that could be a katsitsa something that could you know separate between her and the water she used to be completely naked and she comes through her hair she didn't have any knots right so imagine you go through the whole process and you dunk down and you come up and you're still holding on to this rat i mean come on it's pretty disgusting holding it to begin with but if you want to be clean why would you hold on to it the whole time so imagine you go through the process of karate which we described as the first step and then you confess but for some reason in your heart you're not willing to let go only you know right in your heart i don't know it's so enjoyable it just feels so good it gives you so much pleasure and satisfaction whatever this hat is that you're not willing to release it i mean just think of it think of it as a rat in your hand why would you want to hold i mean it's soaking wet at this point and it's probably dead right so what are you doing what is it what does it do for you just think of it like that so he says she's stressing the idea is going to be important it's not enough just to do the kharata and the confession which i know and i don't want to pick on other religions but i usually do and um there was a time and i'm not sure if it still exists but there was a time in christianity where the um what are those people called the crusaders they would go and do their thing they would rape pillage and who knows what and then they would give money or maybe even the kings and they would give money to a priest and i i forget what's called absolution i'm not even sure the name maybe someone here can help us but basically it's like not only you forgiven if the guy didn't even have any i don't know how much regret he had but we said obviously if you confess he had regret but he's not willing to give up the sin and in fact i think this concept in christianity or let's say that type of christianity because it really doesn't make sense that the the religion itself agreed to it but i think that's part of the reformation you know a protestant uh sect basically came out from all the corruption it was also corruption corruption you hear the word corruption so basically i think it absolves you from future sin that you can go ahead and continue to sin it's like it's like going into a mikvah holding the sheriff's in your hand it's it's like nuts it's crazy right um okay that's the idea so he says it's like one who became tame and then immerses himself in a mikvah with the sheriffs grasped in their hand shallow also load tavila that going into the mikvah was null and void it didn't do anything that's like a double negative it didn't do nothing but you know what i mean it had no effect so double negatives usually the other way you know it's the opposite but i mean a double negative like it had no effect really double negative not positive okay but what if you go ahead and you do the right thing if you went ahead and you did the regret and you had the confession and you actually forsook your sin the answer is you're granted mercy that's atonement that is what about the shuv is that is what a master of repentance is all about so basically you took the three basic steps and you're considered a person who's done truva and you gain your atonement off appreciation madre go to rabos cashier biano even though truva has many levels maybe even higher levels deeper levels i call him deeper he calls them higher but i think you understand what i mean right and as we've explained and that's what he discussed early on okay now we're in paragraph 20. we did discuss uh a passage in michele um that was one of that was 2813. now we're going to go to 2814 okay because this verse follows that idea okay king solomon the wisest man what did he answer he asked for wisdom and he got riches as well okay that i talked about in one of the other classes recently oh i'm giving up a series on the 48 ways and the 40 ways to what the 40 ways to acquiring wisdom so i just mentioned because we just brought up a king solomon that you have in front of you two choices either riches which are to the left or wisdom to the right if you choose to the left so maybe you'll get rich but if you go to the right which is the way of wisdom god will give you the riches and that's what king solomon chose okay that was that's the wise choice by the way okay so what does it say in 2814 fortune is the man who is always afraid ashrae adam i i shouldn't translate it as man praiseworthy is the person who's now we're talking about fear we're talking about a healthy fear again i just want to reiterate not a fear that paralyzes you but you understand as we go along even king david said i only want to worry about what about if i'm serving hashem correctly meaning all the other things in life i shouldn't worry about please hashem help me not to worry about corona and paying my bills i don't have to worry about that the only thing i really want to worry about is to make sure that i don't sin and if i did sin to make sure that i do true properly because these steps again we go back to the idea if someone can become very hard it says ah i don't know you know i did truva i'm i'm there i'm holding you know and i don't i don't need you know nobody can touch me this is one of the biggest pitfalls someone can fall into because the yetza hara is very cunning as we described last week and we're going to discuss it again very shortly so it says but it goes on but um someone who is stubborn of heart crochet libo or maksha libo heart of heart he's going to call it stubborn right stubborn of heart he will fall barah they're going to fall into misfortune but what is misfortune we'll find out shortly but this reminds me of believe it or not i think of today's you know it's easy to think about external things with what's going on in politics but we should reflect on ourselves right the ultimate goal of this chabura is to really think about our own lives and our where are we at so he explains pirush thought who murdered the isaiah even though the person went ahead and confessed and his sin and he forsake it forsook it like we just read it in verse yeash o he should constantly be on on um on the awares right he should constantly be in a state of i'm going to use the word fear but understand we're talking about a healthy fear perhaps maybe he didn't complete maybe the person did not fully complete doing the process of chuva ki hits richa madrigate rabbos because the truth is it requires many steps remember if you skip a step you could slip and fall just think about if there's let's say there's three big steps and in between there's all these little steps right you're running up the steps and you're skipping over steps you're likely to fall so that's why there's 20 steps according to the rubino yona right if you run and you skip steps you can easily fall backwards and this is my interpretation but he does say the proper trooper requires many levels of repentance and remorse in other words each level has many aspects the yosef inmates bakoyom i'm sorry the yosef only makes becoyom lahasig therefore what should one do every single day try to attain increase your efforts to attain those levels and that's what we're doing anybody who's listening and you know reviewing is attempting to try to reach these levels the person should be afraid lest his yates or is trying to renew itself every single day so you know whatever level you've reached but guess what it's constantly renewing itself and that's where i want to go backwards a little bit let me just read the next line in the mall the ishmael me meno because you have to be on guard the ishmael me menu but call ace at all times against your yetzara it's very cunning now we spoke about that i think i have it down on my sheets here it is here um but i don't want to get there yet but we spoke about in genesis 4 7 right when kane and abel had um already gave their offerings this is before kane kills abel so kane is despondent he's he's depressed god says if you do well shall it not be lifted up which means that if you work on your character it'll be fine but keep in mind that sin crouches at the door but it goes on it's up to you in it to you is its desire it's it wants to ambush you it wants to bring you down but if you wish you shall rule over it right you may rule over it that's the whole point when it comes to the evil inclination it is trying to ambush you right this is the whole point of free will right god in his ultimate goodness wants to give you the greatest reward the greatest reward is only worth anything to us from our angle if it was earned because as we know that if you're given all all that you want freely like on a silver platter and a silver spoon i hate to say it but these people who are spoiled rotten as we say have very little self-worth and end up like i don't want to say you know i'll say it anyway hunter biden right i'll say it why not right people who have ruined their lives they've ruined their lives with drugs and alcohol and very nasty behaviors and you can get out of it right if somebody is addicted they can remove themselves from such a situation but it has to this work and the reward unbelievable if you work on your character i guarantee you you'll feel the reward you know they used to have like a a chemistry problem with certain person meaning you always seem to hit things off the wrong way and then you realize there are actually tools you have a toolbox you know it's called shutting your mouth it's it's something i say oh yeah you're right sometimes right there's certain tools you can use to lower the the flame lower the uh the um the the emotions that sometimes get heated up and you'll find the relationship can actually change and because you changed right maybe the other person didn't change maybe you elicited through positive reactions or positive actions and perhaps he also or she also changed in the process but it's only about you so god gives you this yetzer hara not to test you but to challenge you right it's a challenge and the challenge when you succeed hopefully i'm guaranteeing you when you actually succeed you will feel a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self-worth and that's the beauty like in marriage okay it's the same it's really the same thing in marriage men and women i don't think they don't belong together they're just opposites right they're hashem created a desire and broke hashem it comes together but the the the brain the everything about them works very differently but when you realize you want to become a giver and hopefully you had good um role models right not all of us did but let's say we did so you have good role models so you know how your father treated your mother and you want to be just like your father you want to lick your mother and how she treats her fat and there was such strong in the house but not all of us had such uh functional families we had many of us had different aspects or different levels of dysfunction and we require read the books go to your rabbis go to your therapist hopefully it's torah based therapy where you'll learn the tricks of the trade because a good marriage because there's no way i shouldn't say this this is how i speak there's no way you can even function as a person in this world without trying to get married okay it's it's there's so much benefit you know maybe i'm just speaking from a man's point of view maybe women there's nothing they don't need to get married right they're perfect already but a man needs that help made opposite him the azer connecto it's the only way that i believe for a man anyway to find any sense of growth and perfection is only when and i don't mean to be um x-rated but only when there's friction only when there is a certain amount of friction is there room for growth and that's usually in any like i think even today they have these um comfort zones i don't know exactly what they're called with this there's a whole issue with people on campuses and who knows what and there's no room for growth in a comfort zone there has to be some friction there has to be some tension and only to that tension is there room for growth so i hope you guys understand where i'm coming from with that okay um i'll get to the gamora shortly and very shortly maybe this is already the place no the next line when i read the next line i'm going to go into the gemara and basically because the this is going to come to you at all times the yosef years hashem ben nafshotami one should try to have this healthy fear against what against sinning against the yitzhara at all times i'll just read his words constantly increase the fear of hashem within his soul so as to be able to withstand any increased challenge the it's hara presents to the person and the next line is the it's hashem this is i think the most crucial thing that's why i think that mr t you might call him that if he was humbled he'll have a greater appreciation for hashem that it's beyond it's not me me me and iai that won the election but it's if if he wins it's a nice and a miracle and he'll realize that and once he realizes that he'll even be a bigger plea a vessel to serving hashem okay so too with us the yates of hara is actually greater than us and that's what i'm going to read the gemara to you in conducion 30a it's without hashem's help we would never be able to overcome it's oh i'm mr i'm strong i'm courageous right even it says in perkins who's considered a gibber who's considered strong one who's able to cultivate the acer is able to overcome the yetzer to overpower the azer but there's no way you could do without the help from hashem he created it that way and he says here you once should always pray like diving your heart out and it's someone asked me i think it was one of you guys um can you pray for other people they do true the answer is of course yes just like you pray for yourself that makes it even more real if you're going to pray for someone else who you feel is in danger in their lives uh with their behavior so you're dominating to hashem that hashem should wake them up we should also hashem wake me up i don't want to sing the songs i'm not a really good singer but lord get me high get me high lord get me and it goes higher and higher and higher but i don't have that voice it's a carly box song and it's look it up lord get me high get me higher carly bach and you'll you'll appreciate because there's no way you appreciate that song okay so what are you asking hashem to do that he assist you li that god should assist you in doing chuva and that he saved you from your yates or horror and that's where i want to now go into this gamora so it's conducion conduction 30a and it's going to talk about some of the verses we just mentioned mentioned in genesis 4 7 but i'll read from the beginning the sage is taught and you shall place these words of mine upon your heart so we all know right i'm sorry where do i have this deuteronomy 11 18. okay let me just pull it up real quick over here there we go this is in the shema so we say it several times a day it's 11 18. oh you do have it here vishnu sorry the psalm tem and you shall place the psalm 10 s d-ray these words upon your heart upon your hearts the al-naf shechem upon your soul and you tie them between your eyes i know this sounds like a very masculine mitzvah it's true the we talk about the mitzvah of of to fill in being a masculine mitzvah but you shall place them you shall place these words upon your heart what is it talking about talk about the torah place these words so the torah is compared to a drug of life sam sam is drug tom is pure his innocence is unadulterated the the he called an elixir of life elixir of life that's what the torah is it's a perfect elixir it's a perfect drug so the gemara gives a parable it illustrates like this a person hid his son with a strong blow then he put a bandage on the wound and he said to the sun my son as long as the band is on your wound now i'm assuming there's some kind of ointment but okay maybe not and you can it'll heal you you can eat and drink whatever you want you can bathe in hot water or cold water it doesn't matter you have no reason to be afraid as long as you have this bandage on you but if you take it off the wound will become gangrene gangrenous so true the holy one blessed he said to the children of israel my my children i created the evil inclination which is the wound and i created the torah as the antidote if you're engaged in torah study you then you will not be given over into the hand of the evil inclination nation as it says and this is in genesis 4 7. if you do well shall it not be lifted up even though we're talking about rashi says it's working on your character traits the gemura is basically talking about torah study because torah study is the manual of how to correct your behavior how to live a decent lifestyle so one who engages in torah study lifts himself above the evil inclination if you do not engage in torah study you're given over to its power as it says in the same verse that sin crouches at the door it's it's waiting to ambush you and not only that it says that all of its deliberations meaning all of its desires will be concerning you as it says in the same verse and to you is its desire but it also says if you wish you shall rule over it and at the conclusion of the verse it says you may rule over it the sages taught so difficult so hard is the evil inclination that even its creator even god calls it evil as it says for the inclination this is in genesis 8 21 for the inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth by the way rabitsak says the person's evil inclination renews itself renews itself to him every day meaning he wants to come and attack you every day as the verse in 6 5 genesis 6 5 says and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day col hyyom we understand that to mean every single day rabbi shimon levy says a person's inclination overpowers him every day and seeks to kill him we're going to read two verses from psalms it's really one after another psalms 37 verse 32 and if not for the fact that the holy one blesses me he assists he that's where we know that he assists a person in battling his evil inclination he could not overcome it as it says in the following verse the lord will not leave him in his hand okay that god will come to your assistant so there is this concept that before god created the evil inclination he created the torah right the torah was created first this is a very important fact it's a fact and we should live with this idea before the trouble before the illness before the you know the yates of before anything bad that ever happens to us hashem already created the solution he already put into existence the antidote in other words he didn't even create the problem without having the antidote right imagine all these conspiracy theories right that about kovid i mean i don't i don't i'm just saying it's a conspiracy theory right so like oh yeah these it's all man-made and they you know somebody in the elite they already invented the vaccine and then they let it loose okay forget all that for now i'm talking about reality here okay that the reality is that before the yates are before the problem before the issues that arise in your life oh my god i'm faced with a challenge how am i gonna guess what relax take a deep breath are you aware of the fact that hashem created the solution way before that problem ever came to you so that's all you need to know if you know that then you can try to clarify what exactly is the solution right because the solution's there open your eyes it's like usually right in front of you but we have so much bias and so much garbage and veils over our eyes we fail to see what the solution is so that's why torah is really the solution to the it's hara and it's the solution to worry needless wary i should say right keep that in mind and that was the important thing i wanted to tell you guys that i kept forgetting okay so let's go on with we're now in uh on page 50. so it says like this the latter part of the verse was um right king solomon said but one who's stubborn of heart will fall into misfortune what does that mean the person is stubborn he figures i have fulfilled i have accomplished truva what chutzpah if we know that it's coming at you every single day and stronger and stronger right my way of describing the satan there is no such thing as a fallen falling angel there is no angel that is outside the bounds and power of hashem hashem created this angel to test us okay so he's given a job to put like if you're on a relay race or one of those obstacle courses obstacle course he's there to notch up the hurdle so last few rounds you ran around the obstacle course and you got whatever was x amount of inches you were able to jump and your toes or knees did not hit the barrier well guess what the sutton knows his job well he's going to notch up he's going to raise the heat right he's gonna make the challenge more difficult but he knows that you'll make it he's rooting for you ultimately because he doesn't have free will he's just doing what god told him to do and that's to try to make you trip but he doesn't want you to trip okay okay so basically like this if you believe that you have accomplished your process of truma you're living in a i don't know a false reality that's called fake news by the way that's also why i don't want to go i remember i don't like to bash christianity but they belie i believe and that's it you've accomplished everything you don't have any more work to do right basically well that couldn't be further from the truth that's a big nick shot that's a big stumbling block so if someone says i already fulfilled my requirement of chuva veneno mishta del tomi la ha the person has no ability no no um desire to strive to attain any more higher levels of truva he's basically thinks he's there and therefore whatever additional levels of awe unbelievable all of hashem he's not striving for and this is what it means to fall into misfortune because that will be his punishment as i mentioned earlier god will right he really wants to teach you a lesson he'll keep raising you up until bang you fall and we all know the story the concept that the bigger you are the harder the fall right if you ever see those cute little kids oh they're so cute they try to walk and they fall and they give you one look and then they smile and then they're giggling and they're up and again like nothing happened but when we fall oh yeah yeah i don't even want to tell you i mean we could be sitting on the floor until a few people come and help us up here who knows right it's a big deal and it's a big deal okay but the child is um his bones or you know his flesh he's got he's got a lot of cushion right so okay besides the diaper it also helps okay so he he ends off this idea that what does it mean he'll be punished this person is so hardy he doesn't realize that his um i'm sorry mug he doesn't understand the see garam means diminished the diminished state of his soul he thinks he's he's on top of the world he's got nothing more to do and that's why i said in the beginning that it could be that just whatever happened brought trump just down a little bit in order to raise him back up because when you're brought down that's a good thing this is because he's haughty and doesn't recognize his own shortcoming but when you realize your own shortcoming how how praiseworthy is that he also doesn't recognize how great his obligation is improv in trying to profoundly improve his ways before hashem this is an opportunity god gave you an opportunity how how pleasant and happy one should be right someone gives you rebuke you should give them a big hug and say thank you right we don't we usually we don't react that way and broke hashem many of us have come to the point where we are somewhat grateful and we say well think about it and hopefully if it is true then we should you know reward this person because they're helping you enter the world to come right so maybe your initial reaction hopefully is not to kick back and say you're telling me i have uh a toothpick coming out of my head but you have a beam coming out of your head right you i have a small thing you the person told you the small thing and you come back and you bite them with a bigger thing you who are you to tell me you got bigger problems that's usually a knee-jerk reaction that many of us unfortunately do but the more um refined of us the higher level soul you are you will come to the realization this person hopefully i mean if they didn't have good intention doesn't matter if they have good intention you recognize they have a good intention you have good chemistry it could be very civil and broke hashem you can right there on the spot thank them but let's say there wasn't good chemistry and there was you know you're not sure about their intention you know what the bigger person you are you'll accept that you'll think about it you're contemplating because if you're in this position we say i don't want to be in that position where i think i got it maybe the person is is on to something and if you have the chemistry isn't so good or you have a you think there's a bias there you can still actually thank him or them or her there's still a way to actually say i i i have no idea what your intentions were but i want to thank you okay for pointing this out and that's what he says at the end i'm going to read it again so basically if you're um if you don't recognize your obligation to work on yourself then you also are not aware of the fact you must guard yourself against your yates or which is constantly trying to ambush you that's why you will ultimately fall once again to you yet okay now i just want to summarize because he does do a little bit of a summary here thus the verse one who conceals his sin will not succeed but one who confesses and forsakes them will be granted mercy this teaches that the minimum requirement for truma is that the person regret confess and forsake sins we saw the next verse praiseworthy is the man who is always fearful but one who is stubborn of heart will fall into misfortune that teaches us that one must not be satisfied with the minimum and i i have some modern orthodox students and i described to them within the modern orthodox world the minimum may the bar may be too low it shouldn't be so low you have to raise the bar okay i'm just telling you from heart to heart here rather even after having some done basic one should worry that he did not do enough he should constantly strive to increase his fear of hashem otherwise the person is in danger of once again falling prey to the evil inca nation this passage sets out the principle that worrying and i'm going to use the word healthy worrying is a component of truva it should not stifle you it shouldn't paralyze you it should be motivated to serving hashem uh in a better way and mizrat hashem with this lesson we will continue onward and i thank you all for listening and 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