Tomer Devorah Middah #2 BEARING SIN with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everybody welcome back to uh beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston uh who's been sharing uh with us the beautiful work tomer devorah and today we've got chapter two i so look forward to these messages uh which are being done at the rabbi's discretion uh i so am thankful that he shines the light a torah out of israel and all the all that he does there with yebene in jerusalem a beautiful beautiful organization that uh puts out so much great content for uh everybody to enjoy uh but i am enjoying his selection here and there's so much uh to learn so let's jump right in and see how the rabbi's doing today shalom rabbi poston so good to be with you i missed you the last couple of weeks but we're glad to be with you today shalom alec i'm dan and to all your listeners i'm so glad to be here with you today we're going to continue in the tomer devorah which is the 13 attributes of mercy now it's not the only time that the 13 attributes of mercy are mentioned in will call tanakh as we know and we're going to talk about very fundamental concepts in judaism anybody who among amongst the righteous gentiles who are interested in jewish wisdom this is it right this is it so basically i'll just tell you you have the 13 uh attributes of mercy that are in exodus when god when moses asked god show you show me your show me your glory i want to know your ways tanakh later on in the the prophets and the in the writings is what we call rabbinic judaism we would call an explanation it's part of the oral torah that explains what the five books are about because the prophet's job is to remind you of what you already know they never come to reveal anything new and therefore in michael chapter 7 by the way i know you asked me last week should have come to me in fact the book is over my left shoulder real simple to where to find out where in the verses it is but i implore you to go to the introduction we discussed that at length why it is what it is by the way in the 13 attributes of mercy the first two um traits is god's name nuke twice hashem hashem so it's described over there that's god before the sin and i am god i do not change i am the same lord who relate to you the same way after you sin so understand that what we talked about last week in the first trait was that even the energy and the thoughts right all of the energy that we used to sin it was hashem himself who not only gave it to us but gives it to us in other words it's a constant he he didn't only create the world he is recreating the world and therefore even when we are sinning when we are doing things that are inappropriate not right that he is tolerant because he is allowing the energy that he is providing us with with our ultimate free choice and what we do with it and therefore it's so hard when we sin we are sinning with the energy that he provides us which is a to a certain sense it's a great disgrace yet he tolerates that disgrace and we talked about that last week so go back into that to get an idea today it's called after the sin right he bears the sin that's today's topic what does it mean he bears the sin so it means that he's constantly creating we'll put it this way we are the ones that are creating the negative consequences of our actions let me just put it to you this way because we are going to hopefully by the end we'll quote the nephesh he mentions in this chapter it's um it's in the first gateway chapter 12 he titles it physical action generates our future world experience when i say future world experience it's about the world to come so what we do here all deeds matter so there are going to be consequences and those consequences god is also providing the energy for and that's what we're that's what it means that he's bearing us in so it's like this is heavy duty stuff here again one of the ideas behind this is that we are supposed to emulate god we were created in his image from the ground we are adam and we were created from the adam and adam it's like a a combination of the aleph which means um god allah means one and therefore it represents god even the aleph itself is made up of above with two years which means it's the gematria of 26 which is the gematria of god's own name and dome means similar we are aleph domet we are similar to god he created us in his image in his likeness and um and whatnot okay so this attribute the tomi devorah begins by telling us this is greater than the one before he raised from whatever was previously stated and that is this if you understand what i'm about to tell you and translate it's like heavy duty stuff a man does not sin it's a double negative without creating a destructive angel everything we do and this is the negative obviously when we and he's going to explain it as a byproduct sure when we do a mitzvah we do a positive act so we're creating what we're going to call an advocate some kind of spiritual energy that will escort us through life and it will shield us we'll see from certain consequences and unfortunately when we sin though we create negative energies we'll call a destructive angel and that's really what we're discussing here at this moment when he says yivra mashris and then we're going to give lots of proofs a lot of text proofs um we're going to go through a lot of texts so the first text we're going to go through is in perky i vote chapter 4 mishna 11 and i just have to find all my notes because here it is i don't know how much bogged down i should get into this um maybe we'll read it in a superficial fashion and then we'll go deep so it starts like this um rebbe eliezer the son of yaakov i'm only going to quote what he says because there's another uh rabbi that's part of this mishna i only want to quote him rabi liezer the son of yaakov would say so revealed if one performs a mitzvah he says which means performing doing the word kona means you acquire acquire but we'll see but we'll see it means to create god is our conan god is actually our creator um we might as well do this right now go to proverbs 8 22 it says hashem made me at the beginning of his way this is the torah speaking uh through king solomon meaning god made me wisdom torah at the beginning of his way before his deeds of yore so in other words before god even created the world he he looked into the torah and created the world he created the torah before or whatever that means he created the torah um it says over here in hebrew hashem kanani he acquired me that's really the word meaning acquire means made created okay so let me just see if there's any comment here that i wanted to show you is verse 22 yeah serves as a blueprint of creation okay so that we know okay now so the word kona when we do one mitzvah we actually are creating in in the the perky office goes on and says is a advocate so an interesting uh hebrew i would just say it's like this it's amalek yoshaar it means someone who's going to come to your defense now what does that mean we go to heaven and we have a judgment so there are these the energies that you've created we'll call them angels and the the the way it's spoken about is as if the angel himself says so and so created me standing right there he's like this guy created me now that's great because that's going to be you know to your merit right you did a mitzvah and you're going to have this advocate on your side and that's going to be very good okay so what about the other side oh yeah when we are violating the torah when we uh transgress or even do you know a sin outright with our hands so to speak so then it says you're like this if one transgresses a single sin uh he's kinda low again coming there low he actually creates kategor echad now that would be a prosecuting angel so you would think these angels are speaking up on well either for your behalf or against your behalf i i'm not so sure they actually speak i'm not i'm not saying i doubt that they speak but but it's a witness a witness right against you i personally think this is my i didn't get this out of the blue i mean this is what hazal do talk about maybe not everyone agrees with this idea the very fact that they're standing there in the courtroom and whether they have a badge you know they're representing a sin however they're recognized by god he knows they're standing there he doesn't need the angel to say word the very fact that he's present or that energy is present hashem knows and that is your prosecuting um you know i'm not going to say advocate whatever you want to call it the prosecuting attorney is standing there doesn't have to say a word the fact that he's there alone is quite a statement may i say and then it goes on it says truva masim tovim now if you go ahead and you do chuva repent and keep this in tovin this will be a shield uh kit the word trisem we have on our windows here in israel trees is like a shield right it's like a storm window a storm i don't know not a window it's the thing that covers the window and it's called a tree seam and this is what you would go out and battle you would carry a shield and that's what trisemar this would guard you against peronios peronios literally means punishment or let's say negative consequence is going to guard you against negative consequences i want to go into this i don't know let's continue with the with the with the text of the second attribute the second meter but i do want to say that truva alone may not be enough that's what that's what it's a true and massive so there are different types of sins that require certain things to happen so the more severe sins might require uh might require death it might require um we call usureem harsher for in order for to atone some require only truva so in order to let's say nullify the negative consequences it's helpful to have truva obviously it's necessary as well as masimotovium together bazrat hashem that would help shield off stay off any kind of negative consequences but basically the point here that he's making is that when we sin we're creating i'm gonna say we're creating our own punishment we're creating our own the consequences and the consequences exist again because god allows him to exist he could just you know what do you call extinguish your life right he's not interested in that he's actually he loves you and he wants you to do chuva and he wants to see you get on the right path and therefore many of the signs we call them perennials many of the the punishments that come our way are in order to arouse us and wake us up to get back on the right path but in the meantime just keep in mind he doesn't snuff us out he's bearing the sin he's allowing the person to continue perhaps sinning until they wake up themselves and overcome and do the truth and the masim toving so he the the the ramak places this it's like a story line that what happens is that this prosecutor stands before karish baruch who and he says plony asani that the the the actual um angel that you created stands before god and says you know that person created me now we already know from last week we said nothing can exist in the world unless it is sustained by the life force that hashem provides yemen it's god's influence on this world that allows anything and everything to exist and this is this destructive angel hurray hamas it's actually standing before god now the question is right how is this being sustained how is this negative energy that you and i and everyone else in this world because nobody is so righteous that doesn't sin how is that negative energy even existing obviously it's hashem it would be fair for hashem to say now this is logical logical conclusion would be that god could just say to him i'm not going to supply a life force for such a destructive force you know what go by the person that created you via parnes me menu and get any kind of life force from him you know what that would do that would totally destroy the person so hashem kind of makes the separation the well if god would say that go take the life force on the person that would be it just keep in mind i don't know if they mentioned this before but we believe we know that what we call the yetzer this evil inclination that we have is the same as what we call the satan or satan in english and it's also the same the very same as the mala hamadas the angel of death it's all the same so of course it would make sense that if he wanted to then let's say survive if god cut him off he would have to take your life because that's where he would get his energy from so that's what hashem could say oh either you know totally take his soul or cut off his soul or give him whatever punishment you think is appropriate until the destructive angel is annoyed because the destructive angel wants his vengeance i mean this is you you created him the person created him and uh he wants his uh his due but you know hashem doesn't do that hashem doesn't say to that destructive angel yeah go suck the life out of this person god doesn't do this ella what does he do and i would say drumroll please at this point he's nice say this he's going to bear and endure the sin pretty much like we spoke about last week just as he sustains the entire world komosuzana olam kulo just as hashem sustains the entire world zona mcfarney says he's going to also sustain the negative energies that we created unbelievable take place go ahead you have a question or a comment okay until one of three things so in other words god is keeping the masjids alive that there's negative energy alive that we created until one of three things happened three he's given you know we have three choice oh yeshu the first option is that the person repent and the the the vat so then what would happen would be that the angel this negative energy would be totally destroyed through our repentance so we can it's true we made it we created it but we have the ability to destroy that negative energy that we created through chuva amazing thank you god or oh you should said it be a surim um or hashem could what's the word he cannot know it meaning this negative force through our suffering or even our death which is possible and it will happen by the end of our life anyway at some point we die or the sinner goes to gerham and repays his death oh yeah so obviously that also most likely happens to most of us by the way in judaism gehenna is no longer than 12 months i don't mean to belittle it it's not forever but it's it's it's usually not forever and it's probably very painful it's probably excruciating but it is limited in time and it could be a minute it could it could be you don't even have to go through it could be the suffering you'll experience in this world to the two of them i see whatever it is you could do to already and know this negative the negative consequences you might have to pay for that was like the first of the three or the last of the three is going through we call a purification process um yes yeah before we go to uh uh forever now as proof to these ideas he brings down a conversation that cain kaine will call him cayenne and known as cain in the bible in genesis chapter 4 verse 13. so kind says to god is my sin too weighty to bear so to understand what this whole question is about um it's i have here a midrash tantrum i think part of this we should read i'm not sure what part of it okay let's start from the beginning and get through till the end uh they're up there upon cain cried out oh lord of the universe do you have informers who denounced men to you remember because he was like god's asking questions my father and mother are the only living human beings on earth and they don't even know that i killed this guy you know my brother how do you know right because god asks you know where's your brother right who abides in heaven no in other words nobody knows how do you know so the holy one blessed be answered you are a fool i mean i bear i created the entire world i have made and i will bear this in isaiah 46 4. i will carry and i will deliver hashem created the whole world what do you mean a cayenne is wondering how how does god know forthwith then cain cried out okay so great hashem you created the entire world yet what my sin you're unable to bear and in genesis 14 when he says my sin is greater than i can bear meaning since you have confessed and repented god says to him go into exile so it said that cain went out from the presence of the lord and dwelled in the land of node now whenever he wandered the earth whenever he wherever he wandered the earth would quake beneath his feet the animals and the beasts would tremble in fright and they would inquire of each other what is this and they would whisper to each other he is cain who murdered his brother abel the holy one blessed be he has decreed concerning him a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be then they would say to each other meaning the animals let us devour him and they would gather together to attack but as they approached tears would well up in his eyes and he would cry out and this is um basis from psalms 139 7 through 10. whither shall i go from thy spirit or whither shall i free from my presence if i send up to heaven thou art there and if i make my bed in the netherworld behold thou art there and if i take the wings of morning and dwell in the utmost part of the sea even there would thy hand lead me and thy right hand hold me hashem is everywhere there's no escape and so what does he mean when he says this idea um and i have here in isaiah 46 well i think we kind of read it but it's very interesting anyway just the hebrew when isaiah it's 46 verse the end of verse 4 i will carry i have made and i will bear and i will carry and deliver it's um right with the first part until my and until old age i am the same and until you turn gray i'll savor an esbol god says i anees ball i will carry ani a sity i'm the one who made vani esse and i will bear anees the mlate so then not only will i i guess it like as have lenut i will have tolerance but i will also save right i'm late i will also sing okay so hashem is very patient he is allowing these negative consequences that we created to continue to exist until we do chuva okay and until if we do my symptom we can spare ourselves from great pains but sometimes pains themselves are part of now let's continue because basically we just said that what cayenne said was is my sin to wait a bear the sages explained his question meaning what we just said kind says to god well if you bear the entire world you sustain and support the head the the entire world is my sin so heavy that you cannot bear it meaning to support the destructive angel until i do truth and rectify what i did this is the clarity that yes this is what god does he supports the destructive consequences of what we did and sometimes they will continue to get more destructive but nevertheless he um as we'll now explain this attribute involves a great degree of forbearance what's forbearance patience and restraint on god's hand god's he's doing his own self-control and his own tolerance remember we're supposed to imitate him how do we do this right when people sin against us people treat us unfairly i just want to make sure we we're not talking about abusers right and and and what that there's no excuse for them we're not you you know we have other misses don't stand by your brother's blood so there's going to be times where you are going to have to stand up and do something but we should emulate god and know when to expose evil we're talking about for those abusers so don't think this is a free pass um and we're not making ourselves total schmattas and what do you call like a doormat a doormat okay but what does hashem do he patiently supports and sustains the evil creation that the sinner made until he does chuva i just want to say that in hebrew um is it um hard to find the hebrew across from the english here um here it is there's a great amount of forbearance that um hashem is very patient he actually sustains and supplies briarah this evil creation that we created that the sinner created hashem is so patient so even after the sin he's continuing the same patience as he had before the sin you mow the autumn so what should a person learn from this kamatsarikshiya how patient we should be i mean if we just meditate on that think about that how impatient we are at least i'm talking from myself and how how patient hashem is with us and with other sinners lispo olgaro that we will end up hopefully in having tolerance to endure the burden of our fellow man and the evil that he does whether to us or to others for even while his evil that he perpetrated against him still stands before his eyes he should be patient with the offender until who usable odd yitaken khadero until the person who sinned against you fixes himself i mean we can pray for them we could i don't know hint to them we could do a lot of things you know rebuke has to be done out of love so you know how do we give the proper rebuke um until the person repairs the damage that he caused where until it disappears on its own or a similar remedy occurs ukiyotigo anything similar to that um that's the paragraph that we're what are we we're half hour in we're still going to discuss many of these ideas so in terms of the attribute itself a person might forgive an insult or injury done against the person as we discussed in the previous chapter and but the damage still exists waiting to be repaired so when the guilty party does not repair the harm the victim controls his anger meaning we will control our anger and bear the damage until it is repaired and you awaken hashem's attitude attribute this is the key every time we follow one of these attributes we awaken it from above and cause it to become even greater in the world meaning hashem's mercy you awaken hashem's attribute of mercy expressed by this idea that he bears the sin and you bring that element of mercy into the world so when people quietly and patiently bear the damages caused by others by us imitating god god then repays them in kind meaning us his attribute of he bears sin is then awakened through which he bears the sins of the jewish people although the damage caused by their sin still exists don't think it doesn't exist in fact it's still in creation because he allows it to be in creation but he's allowing them time patience to do true and therefore repair the damage this is not at all like any other religion right this is so metaphysical this is how we think of our lives as jews and those who want to and i want to just stress this again there are seven major categories of laws that the no heights have to follow obligated to follow but beyond that it's called beyond the seven all logical misses you're obligated to follow and all ethical concepts yes and you gentlemen uh you guys make everything so logical and so we tend to we tend to feel we gotta we gotta do more and uh yeah thank you um there are some interesting um so jeremiah tunan theme let's see this idea just to drive it home that we cause the consequences to come into the world and hashem allows them to keep coming but they're for our benefit so if you want to read it jeremiah come on come on jeremiah chapter 2 verse 19 but one second rabbi i'm sorry my mouse is funky so uh 19 says your evil will chastise you and your backslidings will repeal reprove you and you shall know and see that your forsaking the lord your god is evil and bitter and fear of me was not upon you says the lord god of hosts so think about what it says your evil will chastise you what you created is part of the chastisement says it clearly your evil will chastise you and your backslidings right we created through sin and inertia that's called the backslidings that itself will reprove you so in the rashi eventually your evil will bring suffering upon you clear as day everyone know how do you how can you argue that nope but this idea will reprove you it's an expression of the evil that you created by sinning is supposed to wake you up and get you back on the right path so hashem is allowing it to happen he's bearing the sin he's allowing not just the sin to happen which that we already talked about last week but the consequences these negative evil consequences he's bearing the sin he's tolerant and he's allowing the consequences to continue until hopefully you you you wake up right in proverbs 13 21 just as another idea proverbs 13 proverbs 13 21 reads evil will pursue the sinners but righteousness he will pay a good reward so evil will pursue the sinners the evil that we created that hashem is giving a life force will continue to exist it will pursue the sinner look what it says in rashi as for a wicked man his wickedness pursues him to his destruction obviously it could have snuck you out immediately but there is patience because god wants you to do chuva he's more interested in doing shiva okay life teaches this stuff and you don't want to go through suffering you don't want to go through destruction yeah now i don't think i really um what's the word i didn't um hit it on the card i didn't know i have here in front of me the uh the nefer shakayam i mentioned already it's the first gateway chapter 12. it's titled physical action generates our future world experience so this is very couplistic and mystical i don't want to get caught um and i don't want to stay in it too much i want to superficially go over certain ideas here um king david said in psalms 33 15. okay psalms 33 15. 33 15 reads he who forms their hearts together who understands all their deeds okay now it could have said in hebrew right it says hayotsu yahad libam he gathered together he fashions together all their hearts amazing it could have said amazing he understands all their actions he understands all their deeds but it doesn't say it says he understands towards all their deeds hashem understands the consequences of our actions and he's allowing them to exist and he gives them energy to exist that's what the word l is doing there and that introduced us to this nephistrakaim idea i'm going to read here the seeming superfluous word el which means to or unto so in other words who comprehends in english they don't translate it who comprehends unto towards all their deeds so what it's referring to is that hash implies that hashem takes into account the ripple effect of each deed and its far-reaching influence on all the spheres of the universe everything we do has ripple effects you you speak blush you know i mean it could end up causing a guy to lose a lot of money it could someone not getting married to somebody there could be unbelievable positive or negative consequences to our actions all deeds matter right so that l in that verse are not equal either yes so he basically says and so the word el el referring to all their deeds means that which is impacted by their deeds that is that the creator knows and understands the extent to which their deeds reach and impact in the re rectification of the world or to the contrary god forbid in other words it has a an effect it has an effect um there's an interesting incoherence it's it's an interesting way to read it this is in ecclesiastes at 12 14. okay well 14 uh reads for every deed god will bring the judgment for every hidden thing whether good or bad yeah i left my cohes over there what he's saying is like this it actually says the word he will bring all the actions to elohim let me just find the verse so what's the word doing there it's it's very it's very awkward he will bring all the actions of elohim and the way you read it you would have read it okay go ahead read it again how you want to read it for every deed god will bring to judgment for every hidden thing whether good or bad so once again for every deep god will bring a judgment we're not reading like that elohim does not have to mean god okay it can mean all-powerful so when a person stands in judgment before god he's not judged for his simple actions alone but consideration is also given to what actions caused in their effect in other words what we did we're going to be judged not that god is going to be judged but we're going to be judged whether good or whether bad on all the powers of the worlds meaning this is the meaning of the actions of elohim let me just read it again like this for he repays okay that's something else but it's elokim the power that we were given is going to be judged it's relating to the action that the the word elohim is not used in the sense of god but in the sense of the the power that we were given and the the consequences of what we do are going to be judged okay that's what the verse means i get it okay yes and i think that's how rabbaheima velozian explained it yes okay um this is interesting so in job 3411 job 34 11 reads for he recompenses man for his deed and according to man's way he causes him to find okay now basically what's happening here god weighs and measures both reward and punishment justly according to the person and the deed so if you're a rich person you steal you you deserve to be dealt with more sternly than perhaps a poor man who who committed the same crime but he was doing it just out of hunger conversely a poor man who sacrifices to give charity deserves greater reward than perhaps a wealthy person but basically the idea is that he repays the deeds of man this is something that we should you know our our actions have consequences i just want to you know stress that more and more and more um let me go back to my own pages in proverbs 5 22. proverbs 5 22 reads uh his iniquity shall trap the wicked man and he shall be hanged with the ropes of his sin okay so so the sins that we do are creating energies that will trap the wicked man and he shall be hanged by the rope with the ropes of his of his sin in other words you basically created your own i'm gonna call destiny you know what i mean you you created the ropes which you're gonna be hung with okay so this is pretty heavy stuff um what i want to do now because i made so many notes for myself i'm going to make sure i do not um skip anything i think just to just go over certain ideas so we're creating these angels whether positive or negative as we said one could be a a advocating angel one could be a prosecuting angel and it's going to accuse us for judgment yet hashem is himself sustaining these that angel we'll call the satan this is nothing anybody who's been studying judaism understands that this is a very i'm going to say uniquely jewish idea now because many people just taken off with this whole idea of satan being a rival with god that is out of control some fallen angel and it couldn't be further from the truth he's not a fallen angel very obedient angel god is sustaining the satan he's sustaining and we've talked about isaiah is it isaiah 45 7. you want to go there and again 45 7. is it 47 versus five all right let's just see i think it's forty five seven forty five seven is uh who forms light and creates darkness who makes peace and creates evil i am the lord who makes all these yeah just i just want to go back to five i am hashem and there is no other other than me there is no god right no power i will gird you though you did not know me in order that those from east and west would know there is nothing besides me i am hashem and there is no other and the verse you quoted i am the one who forms light and creates darkness what do the next verses say well the words he who makes peace and creates evil and sustaining evil again the word evil and art in art it's not exactly what most most people think it is okay nothing evil emanates from hashem so what are we talking about here again it's the out of the kindness and love that god has for us he wants to see us get on our way and do the right thing and earn the reward um put it this way he gave us free will that's part of the image of god and he wants to give us the greatest good for exercising that free will so that's part of the reason that he's hidden so that the free will had we're able to make real choices where did i want to go with this idea that what we call raw evil because forget the english word the word ra okay ra we translate is evil but let's translate it differently let's call which is we call good let's call it revealed good and ra let's translate as the balatini would say as hidden good meaning you cannot see the good in it but now that we know that our actions have consequences and god is so patient and he he's he has faith in us he really does he has faith in us what do we say in the morning right now that hashem returned my soul i am so grateful for because he has great faith in me he is his great faith in me that i will hopefully wake up read the signs right god is constantly sending us signs you know you know don't make that left turn or you know maybe you know whatever it is you know signs of how to behave you know through loving friends and neighbors and family that say you know you could really improve on this or please don't do that again to me whatever it is right the signs that come across are we reading the signs do we want to get to the destination so hashem wants us to do truva so he is so patient and he's sustaining i'm going to call whatever we call the negative consequences the ones that we created he is sustaining because they are our rebuke they are what we created in order to read the signs and uh take the message and um you know we can go on and on and on i mean there's a lot of other stuff here um let me see what else i have to share with you thank you that was well said okay i'm gonna just quote from here and did we read did we read proverbs 13 21 already uh we read 522 proverbs 5 22. okay let's do uh proverbs 13 21 21 reads yeah evil will pursue sinners but the righteous he will pay a good reward yeah we read that a while back jeremiah okay okay so the destructive angel is then charged with punishing a person the person who created who sin created it as uh in year me in in jeremiah 2 19 we read the sinner rectifies his sin by enduring the suffering it itself brings upon him this is just the way creation is now i wanted to show you there is a verse here there's not a verse a source material here on perch a vote when it says at the end of parque a vote that chuvan masim tovim shield from punishment i wanted to read this idea again there's just so much to talk about um i'm going to just read it the rashoni there's different opinions about amongst rishonim which actual maseem told him which good acts is the tana of our mishna talking about that is going to prevent or shield you from these negative consequences so the rambam and the rebecca explain that the intent is that you had the intent you had for the good actions that you performed before you did the sin or maybe you ended up not seeing it sinning at all however rabindra yon and the meeri explain the intent about one of these massim told him these good actions is what you did after uh so either way masim tovin whether it was before you sinner after sin are going to be beneficial along with the chuva he just mentions about this idea of latrice that trees is considered like a shield like a person would bring out to war so when the enemy hits him that the the spears or the arrows are deflected that's the idea of the trees but some explain a tree really is like a doer a delete a doer because that's the language um that you can find it's actually it's talked about in the gamora and baits it doesn't matter right now so true and massive are they prevent like a door it prevents the punishments from coming like the door of a house prevents people from coming in it would prevent this um the negative consequences now we talked about the word paranoia which is like basically payment so the meforshim the commentators ask that there are sins that chuva alone is not enough to save you from punishment so it's disgusting yuma that if somebody transgressed certain sins and for for jews that we would know this these are like the more serious of sins and i imagine for uh non for non-jews for nochides pretty much any sin you do i want you to know is pretty serious okay so there's thing called chris or misuse based in whether it's being cut off for the jewish people or um if if the based in would have required the death penalty so then chuva repentance and what we call yom kippur and i'm sure this applies to non-jews as well rosh hashanah and yom kippur they are hanging in the balance and it sounds like basically the only thing that would really help would be surim so usorim are troubles or suffering suffering actually cleanses and we'd rather suffer in this world than the next world so that's the first idea however we're actually left with a question because the idea was that masim told him chuba massimtokin should have prevented any suffering right that's what piranios is going to do and yet for a jew has to understand that truth and yom kippur is fine but also you still need to suffer so so how how does the ton in this nation help us if you're if he's saying that it's actually guarding from the suffering so here's the answer given by the abarbanel that if we look in the gemara that it says that shubha does help repentance does help but when when it's done with masim tovim okay the masim tovim combined with the truva is enough to stave off any kind of peronnios okay so that is the idea over there okay and that should apply to non-jews as well and bizrat hashem we could learn more do more and as i said get with the program right we have a beautiful instruction manual called the torah it's given to mankind it's talking to the jews but it's also talking to the world in other words you have to understand when so god said to moses speak to the children of israel those are misses that are strictly for the jews and again when i say strictly to the jews i mean these are things that obligatory for the jews and if it's logical or if it's uh ethical non it also applies to non-jews and then there are so many things we saw with the whole dialogue with cayenne cayenne answered but is it too too much for me to bear there's a whole dialogue going on there we feel guilty when we sin we know we're aware of the fact it doesn't sit right we hopefully we we are cognizant of some mistake that we made that can be rectified and so the question is not it remains a stain on our soul that needs yeah it needs to be scrubbed in the in the world to come and you don't want to right and hashem is very patient and he's he's bearing the sin number one he's sustaining the negative consequences that could go out and affect the world yeah the ripple effect the byproduct yeah the sooner we do chuva the less damage is done i want to thank you for sharing that uh concept of masim tovim i've never heard it in that phrase before but it gives me something more to study but it makes great sense for sure and you definitely bring it down into the logical and the ethical when it's understandable and digestible and we can decipher what is intended uh it brings a sense of responsibility and i hopefully beneoic catch that and and more so realize that they can make the world a better place beginning with ourselves and cleaning up our own act and the effects that our uh lives have on uh the the communities and uh the people around us and uh you can make the world a better place and i think that's what the rabbis uh teaching us about the divine uh attributes of hashem's mercy and um to think uh you know of how merciful hashem is when it comes to the the evils or the sins that we are all guilty of oh i i might as well spend just a few more minutes going through some of the comments on this mishna because it says if you just do one mitzvah so maybe like which mitzvah this comes to teach you that even one mitzvah should not be considered light in your eyes if one mitzvah creates a an advocate for you that some don't don't take it lightly the also another idea the fact that it says one a very specific one that if you strengthen yourself persons strengthen themselves in one particular mitzvah and they actually perform it according to all its details and finer details in purity and intent then they will acquire for themselves literally you know this one type of um advocating angel um you should know that it's pure and good without any um negativity at all okay that's an interesting idea now even the word itself and peroclite we said means the positive um advocate so the commentator here explains that proc lead is a combination of two words and they're actually um actually this is we're not going to say this yet i was going to say it's uh it's um greek that's the next word so let's stick with this so basically parak when someone is perak it means they unload the yoke colombia basically what they're doing is they're unloading and removing and then as a result of removing the yoke of heaven so to speak then you're awakening the satan who is equivalent to the curse right we said the satan the evil incarnation the angel of death so we had in this week's parachute we had the blessings and the curses not the only time but we have this concept to choose you know choose life if we don't listen to god then we bring upon ourselves the curses so the satan by awakening the satan by unloading the mitzvahs so then we're awakening the curses so the word lit remember it's perak lit you're un you're on what you call unburdening yourself you're them from yourself the lit so the targum the targum the the the um the aramaic explanation is aurora so you're you're unloading the procleate when you do a mitzvah you're getting rid of the sutton you're getting rid of the negative consequences just in the name alone you're creating this advocate that is defending you and getting rid of we'll call it the dark side the other side the prosecuting angel it's actually getting rid of the curse unbelievable beautiful and then the mr small brings down the name of the ripa that when a person does a mid mitzvah you're doing the good act you're doing the mitzvah you're removing the curse that is on one of your limbs i mean even non-jews are going to experience resurrection of the dead and you don't want a uh a blemished limb when you get up for this great and awesome day so each limb is parallel to one of the mitzvahs until you end up performing all of the mitzvahs and then you will remain clean and lucky or pure innocent from any sin from any of the impurities of limbs but then that was the word parak leet from the advocate what about the word kategar kategar is we're called the um the the prosecuting attorney there's the senegar these are aramaic terms but one is a and they're used in modern hebrew senegar is the advocating attorney so the katagar is what you create when one so sins explains it's from the language of karey tagar in other words k tagar it's from the word it's calling out tagart tagar means you still there oh yeah quarrel to fight to challenge okay so you're calling out in a negative sense and uh another uh the moxor victory explains which means about the the the owner of quarrel and and um provoking is that what you want to be no so that's uh and that's one idea or connect tagar acquiring uh acquiring a quarrel right um and anyway that's first historic explains that it's actually uh greek and it means in greek dores that you're seeking evil okay so anyway that's a little bit of the background explanation to this mishna that mentions that if you do one mitzvah you co-net you acquire yourself a paraclete which is a um an advocate someone who's a malloch an angel who's uh who's um shall we say his mele it's joshua he's going to try to get you out of trouble he's going to speak up on your behalf yeah you have a question um yeah rabbi if you could um you mentioned uh out of pirkei evos uh chapter four um i was just scrolling ahead on that and i think that this just an uh an idea of note uh if you could elaborate how this may affect uh uh noah hides uh it says there it says rabbi yehuda said be careful in study for an error in study counts as deliberate sin and i think that uh uh that that that could be causing a a ripple effect a lot of noahides i see are are always plugged into a lot of classes but if they're not getting the whole of the matter if they're not taking it serious and only uh looking at it superficially uh there's got to be ripple effect and and you know this is the way uh idolatry i'm sure and things have sprung up or phony religions is they missed the mark on the on the on the lesson taught and are passing it incorrectly onto others and so uh this is how it could be a a deliberate sin i don't know i mean i'll tell you what the deliberate sin when you when somebody goes to a unqualified rabbi and knows they're looking for a quickie answer a lenient answer um they're going to them because they they they want to be told what they want to hear what they want to hear yeah when they hear they want to be told what they want to hear so in other words the idea is if the person is not qualified so then it's negligence and not only that so you'll be held account forget the rabbi i mean he'll he'll have his own you know uh day in court in heaven but the fact that you chose knowingly this rabbi who's not qualified so you really have to shop well know well who you're going to learn your uh your information from and your transmission from that's the first part the second part is to review i mean we went through the 48 ways you want to get wisdom you know and you want to maintain the wisdom that you get and make sure that you're on go through the 48 ways go through them you know even if it's just superficially go through them realize there are certain traits that in order to really you know not be fooled to not be fooled you know and um so the responsibility called the onus is on you to be able to choose and then to follow through and it has to make sense wow okay so i think you're spot on today rabbi you're really uh you seem to have an extra masala to to convey clearly today um and i'm so appreciative of you sharing this uh course with us all right so look bizrat hashem in a few weeks we'll take uh the third uh attribute and um what i wanted to mention is that uh i won't be you know should we have shruas coming up in a couple of weeks yeah so with mizrat hashem soon right after um but anyway the third meda is either alpesha he removes iniquity okay so we're going to find out what that is all about so stay tuned and hopefully join us the next time we meet excellent and yeah this is going to be just super exciting stuff i look forward to the next one for sure because it totally ties in with everything you shared today very very very important stuff folks especially for you bernie noah how to overcome the difficulties of your own uh personal inadequacies and more than that how to uh make the world a better place in the process uh i think that's what he's really teaching us here with the uh the attributes of divine mercy it's just phenomenal to think of it from that way the way you touched on it today the the way the the thing is is sustained and it's really our our our actions and uh the repercussions oh it makes me just cringe and want to go to prayer real real quick so i think we're going to sign out for today folks we thank you everybody for joining us uh on the know hide world center social media and other places uh and thank you so much uh rabbi poston for staying up late there in jerusalem to teach with us uh the the the wonderful light of uh torah and its great concepts you were spot on today thank you sir and we wish you all a wonderful wonderful [Music] is