Shaarei Teshuva 1:6-8 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome everyone to the shari chuva kabura it's for everyone but it's only women who can join us live and if you want to join us live there will be a link down below we have switched from zoom to skype we're having a lot of technical difficulties i think because we're of that age we're of that generation who our children and grandchildren know more about these things than we do but that's okay that's okay we have things to teach them and they have things to teach us and let's start i just want to mention that tonight the class today is dedicated to the rafa shalemma of ropinto review shiyahu yosef ben zikri we pray that he should have a quick and complete recovery we're going to try to accomplish in chapter one paragraphs six seven and eight so let's see how far we get if we really get to eight or nine so we are going to begin with um paragraph six and it starts like this the autobina shimazot now contemplate like beena try to understand but the word shima even though it means to listen it also means to understand so you can translate to this contemplate and understand this this is one of the most deepest uh greatest principles that what ready for this ms haddavar the truth is there are these truth is there are very righteous people out there who are not absolutely 100 righteous but they're still considered righteous and sometimes sometimes they do sin sometimes they fall in sin but you know what they don't repeat it you know they learn from other people they learn from themselves and there's a famous verse in ecclesiastes cohes 7 20 everyone knows this verse for there is no righteous man on earth who does not do good and sins not i'm sorry who does good and sins not adam and sadiq bharats there's no person on the face of the of the earth a s who only does good and never sins we're not angels we're not angels but keep in mind what he's about to tell us those people because they still have the name righteous attached to them it's because they repent they don't repeat over and over and over and over and over again these sins and that's very important to know now robina yonah mentions in the in the um in the comments that this is when it says there's nobody so righteous that never sins he's not talking about a hundred percent he's talking about maybe 95 of the world there still are a few a handful of people who actually never sin so even though king solomon made the statement there is no man on earth so righteous that he always does good never sins he's talking about the vast majority vast majority of us there may be a handful and we even know from the gomorrah the gemura tells us and shabbos 55 b you know the four people the four people that never sinned they still died and they died as a result of the residue from adam and eve from sin from death coming into the world so they're attached to death and they died and who are those four people bin yamin the son of yaakov that's one of the twelve tribes the twelve fathers amaram the father of moshe yeshi everyone knows yeshua yeshi the father of david he never sinned and yet he died because i mentioned of the sin of adam and eve and calab the son of david so david was surrounded from top to bottom his father and his son and the gemara goes on to explain about yishai i'm not going to go into it but there's a a source that proves that you shy didn't sin okay and the only reason he died was because of the we'll call it for better or practical purposes we call it the original sin or the first sin but we know what we're talking about okay so the yonah goes on so these people we're going to call siddique who aren't perfect right they have sinned you know what has happened you know why they sinned well at least a hundred times i mean i think it's an exaggeration but let's just say many times they were actually able to overcome their evil inclination but you know what one time they fell the bet if they did fall and they failed to overcome the yetzer hara that one time they didn't repeat their sin okay it takes a lot of clarity a lot of strength don't think it's so easy right we want to beat sadiq but it's possible just know that it's possible the nakuto bifnay hem they were disgusted with themselves they i don't know re were repulsed by the idea that they sinned the shiva and they repented right part of repentance having this regret knowing that what you did was wrong but perhaps for anyone who's not who doesn't bother to avoid any particular sin so we're not talking about a lot of sin here i mean a lot of different types of sin it could just be one one particular sin the animal macabre he never accepted he or she never accepted upon themselves to fulfill this mitzvah now this sounds crazy because i deal with a lot of converts and we all know that basically if you're coming from the outside you want to join the jewish people you have to accept the whole package what about us jews oh we're born privileged i mean that's like you know today's discussion no you also i'm talking to you you have to accept the whole package and we're going to find out what happens when you don't okay but in the meantime so someone who he's kind of righteous but he may well i guess he's not but he didn't accept one of the mitzvahs he's low macabre a nato macabre nav show he's not even remotely interested apparently he says he's not aware of it he didn't accept himself he didn't accept upon himself to be aware of it but he transgresses it freely we discussed last week about how somebody makes something as if it's permissible so either they're totally ignorant or they're not honest with themselves right they justify but we will discuss the difference tonight we will discuss discuss now the difference between what we call a movement hockeys and a movement of own i might as well introduce the idea a moment of own means that they know it's wrong to eat bacon they know they know it's wrong to benef to do a certain sin but it feels so good they just enjoy it so they know they're weak in other words they know it's wrong but they feel such a desire they can't they can't really control themselves that's called a mumula taiyavon because the word has to do with desires that's bad but it's not as bad as a mummerla hakis someone who's trying to anger god who's trying to upset god who's trying to say in your face hashem that's really bad okay so we're going to see the difference so even if that sin that he didn't accept upon himself is considered one of the lighter sins now what's a lighter sin we can have this discussion till you know kingdom come is it something that is just less effort so it's easy is it something that doesn't cost a lot of money so it's easy is it something that has a lesser punishment therefore it's considered cal light right what exactly is or maybe a hulk something that doesn't really have a lot of you know logic behind it so there's a lot of ways to possibly describe what is considered light but we're saying even if it's even if it's light if he doesn't or she doesn't accept about himself that it's the right thing to do it's a problem it's a problem even if the person is actually very careful and cautious not to violate any of the other transgressions in the torah guess what israel the rabbis call this person he is an apostate in one matter of law it doesn't matter this is a very bad status to have right there's a i'll tell you the difference listen in the shogun arab in eurodaya chapter two in five it's based on the gamora and kulin that describes the difference between a mumula tayavon which we said is one who sins because of his desires and one who's who's like they're um they're trying to anger hashem that's what that's what's based on the haki's like to anger they're really it's like spitting in god's face so to speak so the difference in the your day is discussing shrita can you eat from this the slaughtering right a jew who is a mumulation he likes to eat straight he likes to eat non-kosher food and he's your shohet so there's there's actually certain leniencies if there's another jew around and the knife was checked okay as opposed to someone who is either an idol worshiper or as the shakhnark says someone who is a mushumad all he has to do is say i don't accept this now listen to the words a true apostate which is considered a movement even against one jewish law or if he is a jew who worships idols his mom is on the same level or he publicly desecrates shabbos i'm telling you if and you're watching this think about this you don't want to be a mushum for shabbos for anything learn hil start to invite yourself to people's homes if you don't know anything about shabbos or you're violating shabbos i'm inviting you to my home in israel i know there's a would you call it a uh a lockdown a quarantine planes aren't flying but we can set you up email me and i'll try to find the jew in the neighborhood to keep shabbos and we'll invite you to learn with them or to go to their house for a meal anyway so anyone who publicly describes the sabbath or an apostate against all the torah remember just one it's like your apostate for all the torah you have the status of a non-jew i mean i really feel bad you're so proud of the fact that you're jewish that you were born with the jewish dna that your mother was jewish and your grandparents great grandparents gave their life went and dug holes in the ice in siberia to go to the mikvah to have holy jewish children and you don't care so i'm begging you to care okay i'm begging you to care think about it anyway it's like you have the status of a non-jew obviously you're still jewish okay nobody's calling you a non-jew but it's like in hashem's eyes you've cut yourself off you've said it it doesn't matter to me and you become um this is my words okay you have separated yourself from from his treasured people which is uh not looking good in his eyes okay is someone who sins in heresy out of anger to god so that's the definition if you're singing sinning out of anger to hashem then you have a big problem so there's going to be a difference in in how strict we are and that was more for academic purposes but that's what he says this person is just by not accepting one of the 613 mitzvahs you're considered an apostate and you're listed among the heretics they he translates it as renegades and the godo avono minoso and it's a heavy burden to carry so you don't have to carry this burden but your offense is very great now the robina yona continues imagine we don't really have slaves we don't have a vodim today but try to imagine for a second that the master tells the slave his servant to do a bunch of things and the servant goes back to his route his master and he says i'll do everything except one thing and we're not talking because it disgusts him right we're just saying he gives them a list and he says i'm not going to do that one thing all right so that one thing by saying that you know what that evid this that servant is saying to his master you're not my master i don't have the yoke i don't have your uh the shackles right however the slave the servant is to his master i don't have the burden of your needs everything i do is just because i want to do it and this i don't want to do in other words everything on the checklist you gave me to do i do because i want to do it and this i don't want to do that has nothing to do with servitude you're not a good servant period if your master and again it's really very hard to relate in these days what exactly it means but we're going to now relate that mashal like in terms of in terms of serving hashem [Music] so if the servant says to his master call us everything you tell me i'm going to do zulati except for one thing kavar sivar means shever to break he already broke the old adonav the yoke from his neck about from this the his master may allah that's upon him [Applause] and this is quoted in judges everyone knows in judges it says there were no leaders we didn't really have proper leaders right and everyone did what was right in their own eyes which is not a positive thing it can be read positively but this is definitely not a positive thing you can find that if you want to know in judges i thought i had a footnote here it's the very last verse if you look through the all of judges the very last verse of the very last chapter it also appears somewhere else also in judges but you can find it there it's not a positive remark so here there's a comment although he fulfills his masters other commands he's not a servant you cannot call this person a servant he fulfills those commands because it pleases him too but he does not obey his master at all he's not really listening to his master he's doing what he wants a true servant never ignores the commands from his master and who are the jewish people we are the servants of god that's what we are okay in fact the word kahan kohen we are a ma we are kingdom of priest what is kohan kali means to serve yes it means priest because that's what the priest should do in fact i know this election is coming up but this should be true anytime you have leaders a rabbi the rabbi works for the congregation he is i'm not going to say he's your slave he can't just you know ask him to do things but he is at your service he is there to connect with the people of his congregation and lift them up we're going to see this later on if a rabbi doesn't help his flock it's it's a grave sin right he's not there just to look pretty and put on makeup and i don't know do whatever he does he is there to serve his his job he has a job to do the question what is his job we're going to find out because right away unbelievable wait till you hear this with the ramban no commodities has to say about this next verse regarding this there's curses there's blessings in the torah in deuteronomy devarim 27 26 we've read this many times and now we're going to look at the hebrew and discover something we've never seen before at least i'm talking for myself cursed is the one who's not yakim what does yakin mean who doesn't uphold raise up fulfill that could be but listen to the rest to do them so do you think that if someone like me has 613 commandments and i don't do i don't do one of them i'm cursed no i'm cursed if i'm not yakimoto if i don't uphold them to not do them we already know there's flashes sometimes there's the missed opportunity there's different um there's different punishments they're listed in the torah but to yakim if i don't uphold them listen to in english a curse is the one who will not uphold the words of this torah to perform them to perform them is not the accursed part if you don't fulfill them you're cursed if you don't uphold them you're cursed this is going to be the proof that if you don't accept the whole torso package and like i mentioned i work with converts and one of the ideas is they want to know are you accepting the whole term they don't expect you to fulfill the whole torah the rabbis the basement even hashem right many of the misses don't even apply to you most of the mitzvahs are let's just leave leave it at that many of the misses don't apply for various reasons some of them will apply to women some of them reply to men sometimes it's only to a king sometimes it's only to a farmer okay but even then this is one of the things that the christians have all wrong it's it's amazing they say that if you can't fulfill all 613 you're going to hell it was never meant number one it was never met like i just said some are for the king some are for just women some are for just men some are for just landowners right some are for just farmers some are just during certain periods of time but this is what it says it's talking about yakim so he explains in a verse from esther so in esther we all know king move the ki blue kim of akiblu you heard that word we say it all the time when right in in on purim the whole day long game of the blue so keem of the kibble you namely m that the jews ordained that's the word ordained or accepted upon themselves and they took upon themselves ki baal the word kibal is to receive but the word kimu is the word before that it's some kind of as we said before upholding okay so a shalom called miroshvia itself based on i i skipped my i i jumped ahead about esther but basically he says like this that anyone who's not bailed who's accepting upon himself to lit kayeng to fulfill and all the words of this torah from the beginning and to the end this verse i just mentioned in esther you can find it in chapter 9 verse 27 kimu the kiblu those are the same words we're using here that over there basically it's telling you the interpretation the interpretation of that verse is in fact who will not uphold the words of the torah to perform them the verse didn't the verse in deuteronomy 27 26 could have just said curse it is who doesn't do them it goes out of its way to say yakim and yakim back like we said in esther has a lot more of acceptance this is this is a whole story just for purim okay what does it mean to accept and that's how we also know by converts as well that they have to accept the whole torah so let me just stick to the words here he says clearly the curse is not placed upon a person who fails to perform one or more of the misses but rather upon a person who doesn't take responsibility for performing all the misses this is what it's about that's what it's that's what it's about to become a jew and that's what every jew should know we are the kohanim of the world we are the am we are the um chosen we are chosen responsible we are kingdom of priests okay i'm segula we are a special people that the word sugu also is related to responsibility so any person who doesn't take responsibility for performing of the performance of the mitzvah that's the person who's accursed in deuteronomy 27 26 because he's broken the yoke of his master as we describe i had a whole list i'm a servant and i tell my master i'm going to do what i want basically whatever pleases me i'll do as we read the last verse in judges they saw whatever was good in their eyes they did very subjective we have to work something out and be objective if we want to be jews we will live as jews we want our grandchildren to be jews then we have to take responsibility the torah lays a lot on us that's why it's not so easy to convert by the way okay now we're in i just want to read that verse i want to read again i read in esther 9 27 you know what i want to read the rashi on deuteronomy 27 26 where it says curse is the one who doesn't uphold the words of the torah rashi says who does not uphold the words of this torah here in this curse moses included the entire torah they accept it upon themselves with the curse and the oath in other words this is talking about at heart avail and griezing the the future right the it's choreographed where six of the tribes were on one mountain six of the tribes or leaders on the other mountain and the lever in the middle and the blessings and the curses are being said and it means the whole torah okay they accepted the whole torah in fact when it actually happened that's the brit kadasha that's the new covenant don't let those christians fool you the new covenant is once we go into the land that was where we we entered what we call british okay so now you have now you heard it from me now in esther 9 27 what does rashi say over there kim of the qibla and all their seed the alcohol you know what the word nil va'im it's from the word levine levine means to escort but also it means to those who join up uh to the jewish people and that's talking about converts look at rashi says who joined them because that's let's read the the english again the jews ordained and took upon themselves and upon their seed and upon all who joined them okay what did we accept the torah that a convert also accepts the whole torah to be a true convert okay i want to read the second part of that rashi because it's going to come up later in the ramban according to their script actually according to the the writ that's the rest of the verse i'll read it and that is not to be revoked to make these two days according to their script and according to their point of time every year according to their script is the yeshirit script the hebrew language that we use today the font that we use today and it's going to come up when we read the ramban remember i spoke about a rabbi's job wait to hear what the ramban has to say about this okay now we're going to start paragraph seven if someone continues to transgress a sin maybe even 10 times or more they wrote even though he or she is very concerned and careful not to transgress anything else but they take this one and they continuously transgress hine who he is considered as if he transgressed meaning that he already considered he or she considers what they're doing is permissible and that we discussed at length i beg you to go back into last week and the week before how people make things permissible to themselves let me read you his words you should know that if someone repeats a single transgression ten times even if he avoids all the other transgressions in the torah he is to be considered as if he has committed many separate transgressions i'm sorry i didn't say kalos i meant as if so basically that's like this is a big difference between about shuva and someone's who's an ffb someone's from from birth and knows the whole torah as they grow up imagine this about shuba like myself i did not observe shabbat from my for the first 20 some years of my life because i didn't even know that shabbat so when i became from when i became religious and the temple would have been there i would have brought one offering one offering for all the sins that i did with shabbat and there are plenty of sins every shabbat if you don't know the right there's 39 major categories there's many subcategories so if someone doesn't know anything about shabbat imagine 20 some years not keeping shabbat you would think they have to buy a whole farm of animals to bring to the base of mikdash no they bring one because they didn't know but in this case someone who knows and they keep transgressing over and over and over again they know they're gonna have to bring for each and every every um time so you might as well stop delaying the chuva process get over it get with the program right so the example they're gonna give us from macos 21a is regarding somebody who is a nazir another is very complicated but basically they took an oath not to benefit from wine or grape products and imagine if i put in front of them i say right if i we're not talking about here where i'm putting anything in front of it but he he's about to drink wine and i'm a witness and a warner and i say to him whoa you're a nudger don't drink that and he drinks it anyway and then he's what if i keep warning him every sip you know what he's gonna have to bring a corbin an offering for each and every sip that i warn him about what's the purpose of warning anyway right you're gonna go to court you need the people who said we warned him this is going to make all the difference in the world between someone who does bashar who sins inadvertently by accident and someone who sins on purpose did you know that if somebody actually sins on purpose right i'm talking about regular sin this is a very different thing because he used to bring equipment for each time he violates his nazir ship but in general when you when someone sins on purpose no offering is accepted you have to do truva there's another things the christians get wrong right shogei is when you did it inadvertently that is when you bring a corbin you bring an offering when you do it on purpose nothing's going to help you the only thing that's going to help you is true that's what god wants god doesn't want your sacrifices if you're such a maneuver such a low life sin knowingly willingly the hakis right to anger hashem the only way is through true the 100 there's no additional aids but when you sin inadvertently which is more likely so hashem wants your corpsman he wants an aide he wants something to assist you he'll he'll even that's what he's helping you he's helping you to do trouba by giving you that opportunity to bring a corbin the word korban is based on the words come close so he wants you to come close and he's giving you the opportunity when you sin one timely and advertently knowingly so it's going to take a lot more effort on your part nothing's going to save you except you doing truva okay so in gamora marcos it's a mishna it says if nazarite was drinking wine all day he's liable to receive only one set of lashes he'll get lashes that's his punishment if the onlooker sent him do not drink and he drank and they said again do not drink and he drank he'll receive lashes for each and every time that he drank okay um let's go back into the the um yonah and he quotes this gemara our sages said in marcus 21a kim yamarulinazir you told him not to drink a drink anyway he told not to drink he drank anyway he'll receive lashes for each and every one of the drinks he took part it's going to be the same thing every time you go to a traif restaurant okay you're eating traffic meat you're eating mustard color you're eating forbidden fats you're eating blood all these things are forbidden from the torah okay so keep that in mind you should learn learn torah learn what's permissible for a jew you're a jew you should follow the tara and get over it you know there's a there's a everything that is forbidden to eat there's an eq there's something out there that has a kosher that has the same taste it's kosher so if you're looking for um a bacon cheeseburger so they have either fake meat like uh like vegetarian meat with real cheese and some kind of soy maybe with some coloring and taste whatever it is but you can probably find anything because that's what the talmud promises us so you're not missing out and that's going to be the difference between the mumila tayavon and the mumula hockeys right the mummer lataya if he had kosher food in front and of course he'd eat it right and but if he had no coach non-kosher food and the only thing that's around he wouldn't think twice he'll eat the non-kosher food because it's of all that desire but those jews that are mysterious nephesh so what they'll travel another 10 minutes on the highway until they find a story that has some kosher products right obviously if you're you're dying or you're diabetic and you're about to go into a fit obviously you can eat i'm giving you permission right you can eat the non-kosher food if you're about to die or go into a a diabetic coma okay life takes precedence there's some interesting notes here but i think we can skip it um so he's okay so that's that's the information you need to know now we're in um number eight did i skip anything in my own notes and okay so where this is like um we're this is like the um not the end zone but the runway right we're about to land because after this chapter we're going to go into some really deep stuff so eight we're going to run through it it's not that hard but just become feeling familiar with the concepts the inu this is written a thousand years ago he saw in that generation people who sinned greatly keysho nashim imagine that a thousand years ago there were people he says many but there were there were people who never took it upon themselves to guard themselves against well known sins obviously our generation is much worse the kauyeme is haribam and their entire life they were never really careful in them you know what it was like they just thought it was permissible they acted as if it was permissible and they knew a lot more than we know today now even if they would act this way only with one transgression this sorry i skipped something holy rah those words imply this is a spiritual illness we are spiritual people hopefully we're aware of that right let's say you're not into religion but you know you're a spirit your spirit is sick right there's an illness you know it's especially in today's society with addictions and all kinds of phobias there's a real sickness in the soul and if someone's outright sinning for sure then it's obvious so he says as we discussed earlier because they think it's better they they know it's wrong but they they're not they can't even be honest with themselves and they justify that this is okay and he uses the word spiritual sickness again but surely when they act this way with many of the torah's prohibitions we're not even talking about the license we're talking about the heavy sins the strict ones with either was a half a heavy one a heavy punishment it's a lot of effort whatever commotion and you know what he mentions he mentions a list here and i wonder how many that we violate right we don't think of them as heavy but he he considers them to make a to swear in vain to swear over nothing or you swear you curse at your friend or you curse at yourself you put yourself down or lost shame using god's name for naught for nothing learning torah with unclean hands or mentioning god's name or praying in a place that's not clean it's not a light thing how many times have people come to us for money and we don't smile we don't try to raise them up and we don't offer them a little drink a little bit of food a little bit of money we turn our eyes as if we don't we don't even see them how do they feel right go overtimes i wish i could give you money i just don't have any now uh maybe next week maybe whatever can i have your phone number can give me your bank account i'll uh i'll put money when i can i mean anything just a smile to raise them up from their the despondent uh state right offer offer something offer a smile lush and horror i mean certainly we justify all this oh it's a mitzvah we have to tell this person right check it out a lot of the times we think it's permissible in the mitzvah it's not the last is speaking evil derogatory about somebody else in order to put them down these are all worthy learning if you don't learn them you'll never know that you're transgressing them uh we said okay we're we're all we're all we all are guilty of sinatra unjustified hatred and this is why we have no temple today god was halath haughtiness come on i'm better than the next guy for whatever reason which is intimidating people it happens a lot in negotiations happens a lot when you you come to a counter and you want you want the person behind the counter to know how serious you are so you may say things that you regret his talk is looking at things you shouldn't be looking at especially you know sexual things and beeto tamatora connected coulomb the actual negation of learning torah what does that mean that it's parallel you know it's amazing what does it really mean torah is so heavy meaning if you put on the scales there's a lot of ways to explain this but if all the six hundred and twelve minutes is on one side and just learning torah on the other they're equal they're parallel to each other how can it be there's one mitzvah because without knowing the torah without becoming more sensitive to what god wants being willing to macabre the whole thing then what what's the point of each one of them right it's to be a good servant like we just spoke about before i'm willing to do it all so that's the instruction manual the torah is the instruction manual and to just be ready and willing to do whatever god wants at any time is more important than just knowing one particular mitzvah okay there's another idea brought down and that is that if you god forbid experience is experienced hardships in life so you're supposed to check your character to see what am i doing wrong this is what it's brought down in the gemara what am i doing wrong maybe i'm not uh treating people right maybe i got angry with that person whatever it is you have to figure out what it is why these things are happening to you and you know what it says that if you can't figure it out it could be because you're not learning enough tara so the obvious thing people say oh it must be i should put more time into learning torah that may be true but it's not because alone that you didn't put enough time it's that if you actually put enough effort into learning tara you would know what you were doing wrong think about that just through learning torah itself awakens you to what you should be doing right it's the instruction manual and that's what i wanted to mention actually did i skip i didn't i did i skipped the ramban wow so i want to talk about this now this is really where we should get into the to the rambam this is amazing what he says on that verse we said in deuteronomy 20 chapter 27 verse 26 cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law right yakim right la soto tom right we said earlier if you want to look it up again to refresh yourself he brings down three ideas and i never really thought about these so the first we discussed a little bit here in these words he included the entire torah this is the ramban nach manadis that they took upon themselves with the imprecation which is the oath and an oath to observe all the commandments that's what rashi says in my opinion the ramban says that this acceptance requires that one of thou the commandments in his heart and consider them as the truth in other words once you accept the torah as the truth as ahmet that already brings you to such a level and you believe that he who observes them will be re requited with the best of rewards and who transgresses them will be punished one of the 13 principles of our faith is in belief in reward and punishment so right away you know what is the torah it's giving you the guidance the directions of this world and what we call reward and punishment i will i'm going to change those words a little bit to say the best case scenario whether in this world or the next world ultimately the next world and god forbid the other way the worst case scenario so in other words god is guiding you because he only wants your benefit he's trying to guide you for your own benefit um and if someone denies any of them or considers it an old forever he will be cursed so that's in line with what we said about the mummer the guy the person who is angry with hashem and won't fulfill the mistress out of you know giving it to hashem however if he transgressed any commandments such as eating swine or some abominable thing because of his desire where he didn't make the booth on asuka on sukkot where he didn't take the palm branch because he's lazy he's not included within this van right so the difference i mentioned earlier between someone who's a mum and a mum this is not as bad that's scripture did not say the curse it is he does not perform the words of this law but a state says who he could confirm it yakim okay so that's the first part and he mentions and he brings down this verse in esther that's where i got it from uh in esther chapter 9 i think verse 27. now the rampant goes on and he explains that he saw in the usami in sota which is a sherlockim this is in deuteronomy 20 27 26. literally that does not stand up the words of this law what does that mean stand up are there such thing as laws that fall down so ruby shimon ben jakeem says interesting that's his name this refers to the officer of the synagogue now who's the officer it could be the rabbi it could be the outbase did any leader so basically there's a proof he brings from if i'm not mistaken it's in second kings chapter 22 verse 11 where king hosea found the safer torah he felt like in other words the jews were not keeping the tardis they should have there were generations where you had good kings generations of the bad kings and the previous king wasn't so righteous and he found this to say for torah the duty upon me he says is to stand up the law so the same words are used he's going to stand up the law so in the in the name of rebbe tantrum even if a learned person someone's learned and taught torah and he observed and fulfilled its own commandments but he had the means and the ability to help others and he doesn't like this king like this leader like any rabbi any rabbi should be in a position and he's not doing it that's who is accursed i'm just reading the ramban not me thus the rabbis and ushami interpret this standing up of the torah as referring to the royal house of that of the nazi the prince of the sanhedrin who have the power to uphold the authority of the torah over those who know it in other words to help amusram even if he was perfectly righteous man in his own deeds the person is totally righteous but he could have strengthened the torah against the power of the wicked ones who would know it but he thought to do so he is accursed that is the second opinion in the rampant the third interestingly enough right in the top in the synagogues when they lift up the torah and they let everyone see it you're supposed to look you're supposed to see the the script the the font it's a she read like we described before in rashi it's in in in in nestor the rashi nester that so basically why use the person holding up should make sure everyone sees it so he says by way of homily the rabbis said this refers to the sexton that's the gabby the person who like organizes administrates things in the synagogue who does not stand up the scroll of law to set it up properly so that it should not fall god forbid it appears to me new xiaomi refers to the sex then the gabbai who doesn't stand up the scroll of the law before the public to show the face the writing to all the people and they're supposed to lift the torah high show the face of its writing to the people who stand there to the right and to the left thereof and turns it from wise and backwards for this is incumbent upon all men and women to see the written words and bend their knee and say right this is the torah which moses said before the children of israel as is the custom so that's a fascinating thing right who don't lift up the torah they're cursed so the gab i should make sure that it's done properly and i thought that was absolutely fascinating so let's just finish up the last few sentences in paragraph eight so the last thing we said is someone who neglects the torah study that's equal to all the other transgressions together um the rabbles okay there are many other examples awesome ezzo bene hadour that we've written some of that we've already discussed some of the common transgressions for the benefit of the members of our generation to remind them that these things are forbidden to warn them about how severely but they sin by being careless about them so that was his list we could probably come up with a whole new list i mean in addition to what we already said [Music] it's proper for anyone who wants to be a master of repentance which is why we're here learning this is to write a hegemon a nephesh write it out write it out for yourself that's what he says it's likewise proper for all people who repent of their sins to write a journal to write a journal can you imagine get pen to the paper had the vari the things that you are making mistakes with but mrs here cuts through kimuma as well as the positive it shouldn't just be well he says right the things you make a mistake in and any kind of obligation that you're falling short you have to be honest with yourself if you're uh not honest with yourself you're not going to get anywhere in life okay that's as simple as that the only people we have is ourselves we're going to go to the grave one day and are we just i don't know what the word is bluffing our way through life right are we real like take take life seriously make this write yourself the journal and then that way licorice because review your journal of your transgressions every single day i want to read what he has to say about that by reviewing the list of transgressions daily a person will overcome the habit of committing them come on you want to keep reading these things how come on i'm sick of it already change the list make it like scratch it off right isn't that the best way also it's one of the principles of true to constantly be aware of transgressing transgressing that one committed if you don't know what you're doing of course it's permissible that causes a person to always be humble before hashem and never stop improving his ways because that's what we're here we're here to grow we're here to work on ourselves this is the avodah this is what the work is about right that adam was put into the garden of eden to work that's it we are the temple we have this is it we have to take care of it okay there's all kinds of ways okay people into health and sports and all that that's all very nice i'm not against it but if you're not doing the inner work the real work when you when you you're involved with business and you know that you have the chance to be dishonest and you overcome it or you fall short you have to be able to make those adjustments and come come you know hit the hit the what's the word get get to the goal you know the goal is to it's not matter whether you win or lose it's how you play the game okay seriously i i i i came up with a few things on my own right they say nice guys finish last i say no nice guys finish first that's right you have to know what the truth is because there's a world to come so there's a also when i was i think i i was competing to like to be this coolest guy in my high school so um i say nerds the nerds are really the cool ones you know they're really the i know this sounds like crazy to a lot of people but to be a very popular person or you know very social and no the truth is to be a nerd that's really cool because we have to switch our way to clean our glasses we're all messed up right this world is delusion right family do you have to know what really counts it's not about being the coolest guy in the block anyway i said enough i'm gonna think we'll end here and mizrat hashem next week we will continue with paragraph nine and with that i wish everyone a great week and a great life see you next week [Music] is