Day #19–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 19 of our daily study of the name and we are still in Hillcrest the laws of repentance in our daily study of three chapters a day of mishna Torah we are on chapters seven eight and nine and so we just have one Mitzvah again today the same Mitzvah we've studied for the past couple of couple of days and that is positive commandment number 73 the Mitzvah to confess one sins when one does chova when one uh repents or returns because we have extra time to go into this Mitzvah more in depth I'll share with you a mystical Insight from Pine from the inner Dimensions the spiritual teachings of Torah specifically from a safer called now you're going to say hold on a second we've been studying safer mitzvahs yes but there's another safe romance there's this of the rambam which is what we're studying here but then there's something called and he wrote a safer uh which is sometimes also referred to asve and it is a a safer of see this of mystical teachings explaining many of the 613 Commandments not all but but many and one of the Mitzvahs that is explained there is [Music] mitzvasova the Mitzvah of confession and repentance he puts them together confession and repentance and over there he explains that there are sort of two components there's an emotional component and there's a more physical or tangible component the emotional component what you might call the chuva part of it is the um the regret over the past which the ramam speaks about in chapter two of Wilkins chova you have to actually feel bad about it you can't say oh I'm glad I did it but I'm not going to do it anymore because I know you're not allowed to do it and uh you know I had enough fun and you know I don't have to I don't have to keep pushing it no no you have to actually say oh I wish I had never done that I wish I never I never had anything that I don't I wish I didn't know what that was like you have to actually uh regret it so that's called harato regret over the past then it also has to be a a firm commitment for the future a resolution that I'm not going to go back to my old ways but that's all the emotional part then you have the physical part what's the physical part well the the video the the verbal confession because oral articulation in Torah law is considered an action the the articulation of the lips is considered mice is considered action according to Torah um explains like this when a person God forbid does a sin there are two components to the negativity that he creates in the world he calls it a clipper the two components of this Clipper or this negativity are like everything in the world Body and Soul there's the the container and the energy so the body or the container for the the clip or the negative uh entity that was created through the sin was created through the action the actual physical deep the commission of the sin the nephesh or the energy the uh the light so to speak like we call it that animates that that clip or that negative entity was created through the excitement the passion that the person felt when they did the sin so the commission of the sin has two components the physical and the and and the the spiritual the physical part is the actual deed and the spiritual part of the intangible part is the emotions the excitement that he had when he took pleasure in doing the sin all right so now he wants to clean up that mess and uh make things right and he uh goes to get rid of that that that damage that he created in the world well through harata through regret he sort of extracts the the the the the the nephesh the soul out of that negative entity because the negative entity was imbued with a soul quote unquote Soul we're using the term very Loosely uh through his excitement when he did this sin well the inverse of excitement over the sin is his present regret his negative feeling that he he rules the day that he did the sin so now it's a negative emotion he he doesn't want it he emotionally rejects it that extracts the energy that he deposited within this negative entity through being excited about doing the sin okay very well but that doesn't do anything to deal with the Goof with the body so to speak of this clip of this negative entity which was created through the sin through through the action of the sin explain explains that that's why we have video that's why we have verbal confession because oral articulation remember as we said this is one of the principles in Toyota is that oral articulation is considered like a deed that's where you have to actually pronounce it uh with you move your mouth make a sound um you know vibrate that air through the five compartments of speech the palette the the throat the palate the lips tongue teeth uh that is an action and that action cancels out and negates the action of the sin so that's the explanation of the summer sadik why when we repent it can't just be purely an emotional thing there also has to be a physical or tangible component which namely is the oral articulation of the verbal confession interesting mystical Insight we'll see you tomorrow for we're going to do uh this Mitzvah again one last time and we're going to start a new set of halachas as well we'll see you tomorrow God willing