Tomer Devorah Middah #8 HE SUPPRESSES OUR SINS with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

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there okay I'm gonna turn it over to you rabbi great good to be back shavuotov everyone um we are still Baruch Hashem in the tomorrow devorah written by the ramosa cordavero uh 500 years ago this is dealing with the 13 attributes of Mercy the attributes of compassion and I just want to reiterate people can go back to even the beginning of beyond the seven series we covered the general concept what is it mean Beyond right now anyway that yes there are seven Primal principles and that all of humanity really is obligated and must follow it would be great if they understood that the Torah was from heaven from Hashem and was given to the Jewish people this seems to be a uh I don't even know the word fundamental underlying principle and so you can go back and read all about it but beyond the seven the reason we called it beyond the seven is that any Mitzvahs that are logical or ethical are also obligatory for mankind and one should not trying to tell you what you have to do but if you're going to follow you might as well know what they are and learn all about them and you know logical and ethical uh definitely apply there's plenty to learn about right if you dedicate a lot of time into the seven and you master them there's no reason why you shouldn't expand to the ethical and the logical as well because they're also obligatory they're connected for sure that at the footing before you make any kind of decision that you want to let's say keep kosher or you know I don't even know what other missions you may want to do um but bottom line are that's the foundation so getting started with the foundation I would suggest not just my classes there's plenty of other classes um that uh other rabbis you can tune into just to get a better a much better idea of what this uh life is all about and to get as much out of it as you possibly can because maybe it's true maybe it's not you only live once well delicious stuff oh we have to worry about is the is this world right now that we're in and uh that we will earn there's a concept called reward and Punishment this is one of the 13 principles of our faith and therefore what this class tonight especially is going to deal with uh reward and Punishment to a certain extent the eighth attribute of the 13 attributes emergency in mija now we're dealing with chapter seven although that's in the prophets the prophets never make up anything new it's impossible they go they're only there to explain basically all the prophets it's rabbinic Judaism you may say oh I don't know if you're coming from that world but where there are certain uh people that they don't understand purely out of ignorance but they say we don't like or appreciate what they call rabbinic Judaism I don't like the term either I just don't like the term but all the prophets they were all rabbis and their I call it promoting uh rabbinic Judaism I mean it is what we call the Tanakh you guys believe in the Bible the scripture guess what after the five books it's all rabbinic um so the rabbis are there to explain what the five books are all about the prophets were there to guide us back onto the right path that path that was revealed to us at Mount Sinai 3300 years ago and so when we hear about the 13 attributes of Mercy in Micah chapter 7 it's basically an explanation although it's still hidden and that's why we're here tonight to discuss this even further I know that I'm saying tonight it's this is uh you know recorded it could be any time you're listening to it and I know that somewhere in the world like somewhere in Canada it's not exactly night but who knows where you are and when you are okay okay so the the book of my left over my left shoulder that's the book that we're using it's uh has an English translation as well and a lot of explanations so with that um introduction let's begin the title is called he pres he suppresses our sins okay so I think we just like jump into it Hashem behaves and others how do we even know who Hashem is other than his behavior he he has attributes we can never really fully know the infinite but this world that we're in we can observe we can feel we can experience and the Torah itself expresses how Hashem actually behaves that he sowed um this is the idea that we're going to enter what does it mean this is the secret of suppression of sin so with I mentioned in the beginning we're going to talk about reward and Punishment so sin gets punished Mitzvahs get rewarded okay that's pretty simple math however this is unlike any other math because we're not going to do pluses and minuses in other words we're not going to subtract the sins from the Mitzvahs that want occurs okay and we're we're going to say that there's reward for what you did positively and unfortunately however you want to look at it's a tikkun it's a fixing it's a remedy uh there is what we call punishment for the averoad for the sins that we do Allah that this concept is that the Mitzvah itself when we do a positive Act describe Natori that's what the Mitzvah is uh some translate the word Mitzvah as law I really don't like that even the word command you know we can but it really means an opportunity to bond with your creator with your father in Heaven and when you do this act it ascends meaning that it's infinite the re the missions are not going to be erased or suppressed even though we're not yet there we're just talking about he suppresses the sins but the mitches he won't so they they ascend to the highest place to the inner sanctum so to speak where Hashem resides as we'll soon see some of the wording attacks imamish breaks forth and it's it ascends without any limit because the myth itself as we will see uh Dan I don't know if I you got that um code that I sent you by Skype yeah not now we're not going to put it up yet but I I want to yeah no Rabbi I'm sorry once uh our the way our our phone call connected here it it put your your picture over it I was just about to download it when you you called me in and uh so I I haven't gotten it I think I could do it by WhatsApp right now let me just see if you have that uh I don't know if my whatsapp's connected but okay anyway I just sent it by WhatsApp um okay let's continue because we're going to use a a code called just to show you the the depth of the the Mitzvah even the word Mitzvah and how it ascends to Hashem South um I was gonna say let's do it now but let's just call it off let's just get the idea that the Mitzvah itself arises in a sense to to uh the most intimate place of Hashem himself however the sins but the sin let's call it negative energy that are created by our actions they cannot enter into the most intimate in inner sanctum where Hashem resides uh God forbid because for sure but rather there's this inhibit inhibition there's this it inhibits there's a squashing there's a suppressing Hashem does that they will not enter now here's a verse in Psalms chapter 5 verse 5. it says let's see the whole verse I said it's chapter 5 verse 5. for you are not a God who desires wickedness no evil sojourns with you so in the Hebrew it says Russia God does not desire this negative or negativity it's not his interest and sorry right but rather no evil sojourns with you interesting with the uh Rashi okay I have this Cypher uh I can put up on the screen hold off on that we're going to get to it Shirley when in the art scroll edition of this verse tonight in Psalms that no evil sojourns with you this verse introduces a major theme of Torah belief so I think it's worthwhile spending a little bit of time here where there is godliness there can be no evil we have this concept that no evil is drawn down from heaven we discuss blessings and curses before basically there's this constant flow of goodness and when we perceive evil because there's a stoppage there's a blockage there's a a blockage in that flow of that goodness we'll call the lack of goodness so we perceive that as evil but it's not evil that's actually emanating from himself okay very important Concept in Judaism so the juxtaposition of the two good impossibility which we're going to get into the idea of Hashem the the Mitzvahs or the energy that was produced by doing the misses enters into a closeness with God but the negativity does not so nothing evil can emanate from God who is the source of pure good evil begins when men seek to limit God's fear of influence when men attempt to push God out of their lives they invite Misfortune to enter for an absence of God is synonymous with misery I hope this is penetrating everyone who's listening their hearts their ears theirs their mind this may be compared to an engineer who constructed a splendid Highway smooth straight and completely unobstructed he protected it he protected it by lining the roadside with offensive Thorns call that a Gather High that's in Hebrew but it's basically put in the you know in in modern day you have uh steel or iron railings you don't want to fall off down down to the ravine but anyway so there's a road sign you're walking along you're riding along and you have this guard rails fence of thorns if the foolish traveler insists on straying or ensnares himself in the thorns is the Builder the road Builder to blame of course not so it's self-inflicted let's say um the Melbourne agrees that this verse introduces a pillar of belief of a pillar of Torah belief okay this is um I'll just read the rest however he explains this verse and those that follow differently David is drawing a distinction between the one true and perfect God and the multiple deities of Mythology many of whom uh represented the worst character traits okay so you can look at the Malbone for more detail but this idea is the first verse that the that the remark brings in this idea that Hashem suppresses them because he's not interested in them and they cannot dwell uh close to him so the idea that we were the idea we're going to flesh out is that one cannot just say okay I did 30 Mitzvahs or four let's use an example he's going to give 40 Mitzvahs 40 positive acts and I did a few let's say 10 negative things so I don't have to worry I have 30 right if you deduct the 10 negative right you deduct the 10 of the positive against 10 negative so I'm even like I don't have to worry so much doesn't work like that okay let's go into the idea here we'll meet Tom Zep there is an idea Scar mits the Baha'i amaleka in gamarkadush and it mentions that there is no reward in this world I know that the Torah is full of what seems to be reward in this word it's telling you this reward and Punishment you know if you do the right thing it's going to rain in its time and the okay but we're really talking about the future what we call Olam Haba or the time of the Messiah so I do want to read from you not the gamarkadushan but there's another gemara in um in gumar brachos that's 34b that mentions a interesting mock Locust who's greater someone who's a balachuva or someone who's completely righteous either someone who sinned and came back to the right path or someone who was who never sinned and it's a very interesting discussion what kind of reward is awaiting for which one the Gamora doesn't actually conclude but throughout Jewish history liturgy uh it seems as if the the balchuva wins but that's not the important part yeah the rambam the rambam in the eight chapters also discusses the difference between an eminent person he he calls in and one who struggles with his uh uh difficulties and uh uh yeah the one who struggles is definitely seen as higher than uh somebody who's considered an eminent person they're just not meant to any certain yeah so basically there's an idea so the profits themselves you guys all have the the Bible the Tanakh right you're looking at it and you hear about all these these rewards who are they for so the Gamora actually tells us that besides the intricacies of this discussion you know what kind of person this is whether they were righteous their whole lives or they they sinned and they came back a piece of the gomor explains here in the name the son of ABBA said in the name of ribioconine all of the prophets all of them meaning without exception they only prophesied about the times of the mashiach but the world to come they didn't even speak about why because it's Indescribable it's it's so much greater than what we will experience in the times of the Messiah now the times of the Messiah is in this world this is a worldly event I know maybe people haven't cropped that yet but I haven't totally understood that point it's the world will probably be somewhat different it may be a lot different but it's at least in this physical world and so when they prophesied about all these really delicious beautiful uh enjoyment of the basically um this closeness to God and the pleasure that one would get from this basking in the in the in the in The Godly light so that no they never even talked about that because of a verse that we'll find in in Isaiah 64 verse 3. um and whereof no one had ever heard had ever perceived by ear no I had ever seen a god besides you to form for him who hoped for him so in other words for all those who are looking forward looking forward to the coming of the Messiah looking forward by doing Mitzvahs to a relationship with Hashem by every positive act that you do by being kind to people right by being ethical so you'll you'll get all this kind all this reward but no I meaning not even the prophets have ever seen it to be able to describe it it's not describable unbelievable now Rashi says something awesome here amazing um where no one had ever heard like those awesome Deeds performed for one of all the nations before that no I had ever seen another God besides you that the God would do for him who hoped for him what you did for him who hope for you that's a beautiful explanation and we have no one that no one ever heard another explanation like those awesome Deeds performed for one of all the nations before that neither had an I seen God before your eyes what he would do for the one who hoped in him obviously these are the people who are doing the misses because God commanded them again besides the seven any Mitzvahs that are logical and ethical the end of Rashi mentions about this idea that God would perform miracles for whoever hoped in him and at the end he says this gumar here in Brothers 34A none of the prophets prophesied except regarding the Messianic era but the world to come no one has ever described nobody was ever able to the prophets were not talking about that no Prophet ever saw what the Holy One blessed but he will do for him who hopes for him except for your eyes o God and that is what the that's what the verse is referring to in Isaiah 64 3. so bottom line is when we talk about mitzvahs with and maybe this is the time to bring up the atbash cipher uh we're talking about it's infinite it's a it's going to be rewarded in such a great way that you cannot describe it it actually I don't know if the word it it's pure goodness so it it melds it it it it's one with Hashem let's say the mitzvitz up now I want to prove that through the Akbar Cipher basically when you look at this I'll just give a background what it is it's an ancient code you can look it up a t b a s h look it up on Wikipedia it explains that armies in even modern day armies use this code with every alphabet they use but it's based on the ancient Hebrew alphabet where the a or the olive would be replaced or let's say in the code itself with the last letter a tough okay so you look on the I don't know if you have it up if you okay so you see on the far right the top letter that's the first letter of the alphabet you have a tough underneath it the BET and then you have a shin underneath it so it's called at bash it's like a z right b-y and on and on and on so if you look the the word Mitzvah itself is the last two letters of the word mitzvah and that is the last two letters of God's Own Name now what about the unit in the beginning so we said Mitzvah is so look under in the Top Line the tenth letters are good right underneath it is the mem okay and then if you go along I think it's the fifth letter from the end on the from the left you have it Sadiq and uh the it's really a fifth letter from the end on the next line down is a hey so you have the you're in the hey is a called a mirror right it's like a mirror or reverse mirror if you want to say the yur in the hey is embedded I don't know another another word to to say but it's like a hinted at it's it's seen if you can look at the the letters memphotic valve hey as really a reversal of the memsatic being yudhay connecting with the last two letters which are already part of the word Mitzvah with above hay so I hope that was I hope that was clear um how in a certain sense the mitzvah it when you do the midst of properly knowing that it's a Godly command that it's um it's connecting back up back into uh the the closeness with Hashem okay so the last thing we said was in this world there there is no reward the reward is stored away for you in the world to come so the remark continues nipnay shahim the fun of your spot because they are so close to Hashem they're placed into his immediate um and proximity but that means they're not in the physical world they're not of the physical nature how else how are you going to be repaid right reward for something that you would it's pure spirit and it's going into the spiritual world how would you expect to be paid in the physical world for it you wouldn't it's impossible now there are possibilities I should say there are crumbs there are fruits that when we spend money when we're happy doing it when we're putting in effort to do the misses there will be re um crumbs fruits there will be extras that we could experience in this world there's 26 specific hacks we could do in order to receive the crumbs but not the Karen not the main capital of the reward that remains in the world to come and I think I have another mission in perkiavo to talk about and no not yet do it Rabbi yeah yeah um you and I once discussed because I'd first heard this concept uh for Rabbi breidowicz mentioned at one time we discussed before uh Dira but talked on him the concept of Dira but talk to him is that something that brings us down or no I'm not sure of the context but we're talking about how maybe Hashem dwells in this world I think when you say deer attacked her name it's not referring to the reward in this world so maybe we'll leave that question when we have time to discuss yeah when it's more appropriate sure that's more of uh the temple I might as well just discuss a little bit the temple itself obviously does not contain God in fact when the command was brought down by God again command the Mitzvah to uh build a house so he says I'm going to live in you he doesn't think I'm going to live in it interestingly enough and this is another thing that for the non-jews to grasp that the Jewish people and really anybody could right potentially uh become Jewish let's just say that the Jewish people are the holy ones or the mikdash that Hashem will dwell in you the Jewish people and um a non-jew can actually change his Mazel and um come really close to that point even without converting obviously with conversion there's a whole endless possibility of closeness to Hashem but the truth is even a non-jew can be considered a coincidence could be considered like a holy of holies when they dedicate themselves to learning the seven Mitzvahs and Beyond right as we discussed and the ethical and logical Mitzvahs and they can still get rewards for doing additional Mitzvahs as well but again I say stick to the stick to the foundations first for many years before advancing because there's so much it's endless how much you can learn just on those Mitzvahs alone okay and we were just in this idea asking the question is how can they physical how can a spiritual reward ever be um you know given in this world Ray Cola Allah there's like no way you can compare all the pleasures that one can get into this world is not even equal to the rewards for doing one Mitzvah in the world to come the right there's so much more satisfaction and this is not God forbid like you know the Muslims talk about 70 virgins or anything like that we're talking about a closeness with a Shem which is almost impossible to describe but melding right a mind meld imagine right so you can get a taste of that in this world when you're learning Torah when you're involved in in Mitzvahs that is the closest thing you can get and I don't mean any drugs God forbid that's all counterfeit the real stuff is uh a touch just to touch the world to come through doing the Mitzvah because that's where that's where the the reward is waiting for you okay so the next paragraph will meet Tom's at low yukak it's in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 17. have it here yeah so let's just take it this verse and try to decipher what does it mean for the Lord your God is God of gods and the lord of the Lords now it says he is um he's great uh mighty and awesome God Raquel hagidol Aggie board hey Mommy she's awesome so the end of the verse mentions that he does not show favor and normally take a bribe this is key to try to understand this idea of he suppresses our sins so what would you what is a bribe wait no I mean come on hashem's going to take your money he prints the money I mean it's it's I'm not saying it's worthless to him he has no use there's nothing he could do with your money no matter how much money you throw at him so it can't mean it can't mean money it can't be but what does it mean so it has to mean what we're about to say and I'm just trying to remember where I have all of my notes Here I think we will um he says of a Mitzvah right the first thing he introduces amidstv so what's the analogy hamasha was that he gives us an analogy and we'll discuss this God does not say keep this in mind right what someone's going to perform 10 positive acts and 10 Negative X God does not say this you know I'll just make a new calculation and I see this guy as 40 positive acts 10 Negative X I'll just right that's a bribe we're bribing him with mitzviz I'm gonna bribe him with Mitzvahs doesn't work we're meaning he's not going to read he's not going to deduct and erase the Mitzvahs the negative of arrows sins because uh it's parallel to x amount of mitzvahs you will get rewards for the missus and he's not isn't that aggressive isn't that unbelievable Mercy that he's not going to deduct because he not that he can't nothing but it's already infinite it's already Hashem himself and there's no deduction from that this is unbelievable kindness that he won't do it he won't make but an Earthly king would right maybe come or even someone who will consider to be perfectly uh righteous let's say he did one negative thing in his life it's devastating it's horrible it's as if he even birthed the entire Torah which is horrible but guess what he will have to pay we spoke in the very beginning there's reward and Punishment every Jew knows you do something negative you got to do chuva you don't do chuva you have to pay for it right you'll you'll end up suffering okay in this world we call it you surim we call it suffering in this world or God forbid even worse uh through death and after death you have to pay it so in a certain sense isn't this I understand sounds Twisted I did a sin I gotta pay for it well you can do true um truth is the the nicest Avenue okay you can repent if you don't repent you have to pay vac so in the end of the day he's not going to deduct that negative act against all the any of the positive acts you did the positive acts you will get the reward for but at the same time that's what we call Purgatory or the some call it translated as hell um but for us it's not Eternal it's painful but it's short-lived and it's necessary and you will receive all the rewards for all the Mitzvahs and no Mitzvahs ever canceled I heard YY Jacobson give an analogy we all live in this world right so let's say we have a boss or let's say you are the boss either way look at it like this the boss tells his employee I I want you to do these um gives them a list this is what I need you to do there's a hundred things on the list so but he doesn't want him to do anything else just these hundred things and the guy does 10 things that the boy so he did 90 things that the boss wanted him to do but he did 10 things the boss told him not to do and don't do I mean that could be damaging to the company I mean it's a waste he's going to pay for it the boss is going to pay the whole thing doesn't make sense that what are you going to say the Bull's gonna say oh well um so I'll just pay you for nine you know I asked you to do a hundred things I needed them done so we're gonna do take off 10 and just forget it and call it a day and say okay so you know you did 80 of the things or 90 of the things out of 100 and no you there are consequences there are consequences so so and that's in the Earthly in the Earthly realm but in hashem's world he suppresses he suppresses those sins and we're going to talk about that a little bit further Hine it's unbelievable kindness that Hashem does that he'll behave with the pious people with the righteous people this way he's not going to deduct he won't remove all the misses he wants you to a Mitzvah that's unbelievable and it won't be erased isn't that amazing so they're considered very important misalos ad lifanovius Barack they go all the way up to where he dwells how would he ever deduct them or subtract them on account of sin this whole idea of getting reward like I'm going to use punishment he says reward for the meaning the payment for the sin is a part of what we call gehennam let's just call Purgatory it's called what it is and this is a very degrading and um what's the word he uses here despicable it's coming from a very despicable place but it doesn't go up it doesn't Blossom and Ascend like the misters do but the Mitzvah but the reward for the Mitzvahs is very honorable the reward or the payment for the sin is not honorable at all to the opposite so what is the reward for doing the cut the the proper Act Ive this is the how does he translate here the radiance of the shrina the ziv the shine of God's presence and you there's totally separate Realms of existence it's it's not how do I it's not counter one for the other they're separate accounts and keep that in mind Hashem will collect and therefore punish the person for the sins let's call it therapeutic uh therapy um it's for our own good Colin mitzvos and he will pay uh a good return a good reward for the the positive acts for the missiles that we do so the point being wholeness right Hashem is is commanded the ultimates was for completeness uh uh wholeness of the person yes yeah but the the the value of the Mitzvah is just absolutely unbelievable that we cannot even fathom I know I only gave you like a glimpse of the word Mitzvah but and tried to describe how it enters his whatever that is his proximity his domain right and called inner sanctum whereas he suppresses the sins data there's no evil that will dwell with him it doesn't go there at all but it's not wiped out until you do chuva and chuva is a possibility trust me for non-jews as well okay we talked about this a little bit somebody mentioned I'm not going to mention the whole uh scoop but basically that there is no true love by non-jews that's not accepted by Hashem it's I can't say it's not true what I will say is there are different levels okay it is true that truva is accepted that's what is true is it absolutely accepted no there's different levels okay but there is truva by non-jews as well it's an absolute uh truth that there is and that's the prevailing understanding in Judaism you don't have to be a Jew to get to heaven right that your punishment will be wiped out if you do shuva and that's the main thing okay so the last um last line on this page anyway it's the next paragraph now we're going to deal with this again this idea of he suppresses our sins again these are totally different accounts and the uh the sins do not Prevail they don't um they don't have the same impact that the positive misses have the positive mixes are forever Eternal it's the God's name is within the whole act and you're bringing godliness into the world and you're bringing the physical world into a Godly sphere but the the the averos can be wiped out yes when it comes to sin when it sorry yeah but when it comes to sin he um suppresses them and he and they will not enter and Ascend to his um his Sanctum now it's true that he has absolute knowledge and he knows everything what a person does we speak about Russia Yom Kippur I mean he examines all of our Deeds he examines our most inner thoughts he examines within our organs and what they produce in terms of desires and whatnot right even if you never spoke it out even though even if you didn't act it out Hashem knows everything whether good or bad what we're thinking nevertheless when it comes to all the positive thinking suppresses them but it ascends to the highest place it Blossom it breaks forth to the highest limits which means unlimited the nikla Mitzvah but mitzvah and this includes every Mitzvah and what ends up happening is nivna by the way you bun it's the same word you're basically building from an opinion let's call it a palace in the world to come obviously it's not a physical Palace but every mix that you do it's like a brick in the wall you're a brick in the in the structure this Palace this edifice that you will end up living and experiencing for eternity so it's a Divine structure or let's say he uses the term like clothing a garment of Honor so it's a spiritual structure and a garment of honor and that is going to be the reward for the mitzes the sins are can be we'll call temporary you know they're not forever I know there's other religions that have a uh let's say a different mindset about that avonos ain't lamb sagula Zoo so the the sins don't have this ability they just don't have it there is no let's say success it doesn't have the the success record of of lasting for eternity or even ascending and coming close to Hashem Lo yikanime has no ability to enter inside you have a question at this point or okay now one of the key things that we're doing with this book is learning how to apply God's attributes we have a Mitzvah to imitate Hashem to follow in his ways you can go back to the earlier um uh classes to understand what that means but this is a obligation that we are supposed to imitate Hashem and follow in his ways I'm just looking up ahead then you know okay so how do we apply it how do we make this applicable I did discuss this idea of a zamra right to look at the positive in other people and know that they must have done something good in their life so let's say you actually know people they did good by you for many many years many seasons but all of a suddenly the one thing to you and what are you gonna do hate him forever you're gonna like that's gonna remember what we just discussed it doesn't cancel out any of the Good Deeds so too this is how it works in the shem's eyes this is how you should look this person did good by you then all of a sudden he she did something that you would think I don't know unforgivable I mean look if it's really unforgivable really disaster I get it okay but for the most part the person messed up they did something we're not going to cancel it out you're going to continue to focus on the good and you're going to suppress uh the negativity so let's read it that this character trait we just described suppressing the sins which God would do for us we do we're obligated we need to do this when we're involved with other people don't subdue the goodness that your friend did to you the yes and only remember the bad that he did to you or she did to you but the opposite I want to drill this in we want to be like Hashem Hashem wants us to be refined like him and he gave us the instruction manual it's called the Torah and we have the 13 attributes of Mercy 13 attributes of compassion and we're supposed to incorporate that into our lives first of all it's for a good healthy spiritual life I mean it's going to benefit you but we also discussed the idea it brings it into the world you want more compassion in the world there's a flow there's a uh a stream of compassion that you can open up by practicing these attributes so he tells you rather suppress that evil that you're looking at in the other person forget about it forget about it push it aside abandon it belong and don't allow that evil to dwell maybe like within you how does he translate yeah don't let the evil dwell with your person meaning don't let it dwell within you because you basically have kidnapped uh the evil it's like you know it's in you um I just skipped to a verse in Leviticus chapter 19 17 and 18. just to bring this uh point to uh have it here yeah I want to take both verses because it's important even though the the latter verse talks about love your neighbor as yourself but how do you reach that point says in verse 17 you shall not hate your brother in your heart lot don't hate your brother in your heart now you do have to confront evil how do you do it first of all you have to do with love and I'll prove that in a second you have to do it with the concern that the person is doing something that's damaging in the South and others and you want to guide him or bring him back to the right path by not continuing to do this who's he going to listen to someone is screaming and yelling or someone who he knows right the heart speaks to the heart he knows that you care about him you know he knows hopefully that you you know how do I express this well he knows that you care that's the first thing and that you're not doing this out of resentment or grudging begrudgingly listen to the listen to the rest of the verse um you shall surely rebuke your fellow of hate so you don't bear sin on his account you shall not take revenge he can feel it if you have Hate in Your Heart I'll just kick back and rebel worse will otitor is and don't hold a grudge either against the members of your people and how does this verse send me after uh but rather you should love your neighbor as yourself I believe your God um by the way just what is the difference between a revenge and a grudge because they are different revenge is where you ask um let's say for example your neighbor says lend me your I don't know lend me your your your have your hammer and you say no so then the next day you go to him and say lend me your ax and he says you know I'm not going to lend it to you because you didn't lend it to me so that's called Revenge what about a grudge so it's almost the same case but the second time you come to me say I'm going to lend you mine I'm not going to be like you so that's holding a grudge first is Revenge you're holding back what he needs and you say I'm not going to be like you I'm not giving it to you the other way is I'm holding a grudge oh I'm going to give it to you but I'm not going to be like you this low-life person that I think you are so this is a problem with you with right we we focus on the negative so don't hold the grudge it's going to kill you it's going to eat you alive don't have this revenge of the grudge but rather love your neighbor as yourself so how does he end this last paragraph um where did I leave off I'm sorry I left off somewhere uh two lines up from the second to the list it's the not the last paragraph but the one before see I told you this is you should always have the goodness in front of you whatever you know you can look at remember we're talking about the zamra azamra will you're gonna say to yourself I know this person when he was five years old four years old he must have been a good person something happened I'm going to look really deep and try to find that godliness that goodness that was inside of him way back then or maybe he's still kind to his parents maybe he's still kind to his wife who knows but everyone else he deals with in a very not so nice way but to look at him positively these color I'll tell you the try to remember only the good about him the yakubira low I'll call hamasimha also love uh he should remember the good and make it overcome all the other Deeds he did to him it's it's an exercise it's an exercise but this will bring more compassion into the World by you being compassionate and the last paragraph I know we have entered a cancer culture and if you understand where this is leading to it's it's not a good thing it's not a good thing now if there's somebody who is let's say an anti-semite and you gave him plenty of chances to repent and take back what he said and he holds his ground and he you know we're not mentioning any names of course right and he continues can you imagine he can lose billions of dollars and he says see they it proves my point first of all I mean if we're talking about the latest Fiasco I mean we're talking about many non-jews have taken out uh resentment or whatever this is because a person has been given a chance to repent and he's what he called like digging in his heels and he's holding his ground and he's even more filth comes out of his mouth and I'll just use one of them Defcon three like you know okay so you probably deserve to lose a few more extra quarters from your pocket okay anyway below you're not gonna believe all the Omar do not cancel from your heart don't eliminate he should not eliminate from his heart to say you know although he did me a good thing but you know what he also did me a bad thing you're not supposed to cancel your in Your Heart by saying this and forget the good as a result no don't act like that don't don't cancel out and say you know what all that good stuff he did was ruined by that one bad thing what you should do rather is you should be appeased um meaning you're going to end up ignoring the bad stuff but you should be appeased for the bed that was done in any way possible meaning you have to work it out okay within yourself and never remove your focus from the good that the person did a rabbi but yeah we're not supposed to be doormats though right absolutely not no absolutely not you know like I mentioned this idea of confronting somebody having a dialogue you tell them how you feel you tell them the consequences look if you don't get it off your chest you will hate him this is the way you won't come to Hayden and you know what if the guy's a mensch a decent human being apologize or he'll tell you oh you had the whole thing misunderstood I would never do something like that okay this is the only way you're going to get it off your chest and clarify and hopefully make the proper tequin with the person it's hard to talk to anybody today I get it most people get really defensive and they smack you back with you know oh you're telling me well you're worse okay so it has to be out of love if it's not done correctly you're right it's going to make things worse but I think I gave you that whole idea here in uh Leviticus chapter and it was 19 verse 17 and 18. you got to master that figure out a way to have a dialogue that's not that's not called cancel culture it's having a confrontation it's not a protest and have the guy walk off stage because he doesn't have a chance to talk it's calling him up it's running a letter writing him an email saying let's get together for coffee you know this really hurt me and I just want to clarify what's the guy going to say you're a jerk and you deserved it so you say what did I do at least you have a conversation you know I have a conversation if if you have another person on the other end you can talk to him again there are plenty of people unfortunately that are just um dead ends right there's no way to talk to them I get it okay I hope that clarified it yes okay so never remove your focus from the good um basically it's like this right always have the good and the focus of your eyes but rather you should ignore these bad character traits we talked about that with the Azamara all that you're able to do just like karish baraku's clothing just like Hashem does and this will open up a deep Fountain of blessing in one's life yes we're not doormats I totally agree we're talking about in your basic everyday relations people you have an ongoing relation let it go try to be at peace it's going to just kill you in the end with all kinds of diseases right there's a strong relation between the soul and the body and emotions get caught up in the middle and we need to be let's say emotionally mature people and the best thing right is to breathe seek counsel pray but the main thing is to look at the world positively what the way you look at the world is the way the world looks at you and it's only going to get worse when you think everything is everything's against you seek some help there's therapists there's rabbis friends but basically um uh you know you got to learn how to let it go let it go you know there's um different battles you can fight uh you always say you know it's just not worth fighting this battle and uh the the main battle is the one inside is the Eternal internal battle um you know with the way we think about situations about people and it will put you at peace and it will bring in such unbelievable and what's the word Providence and Providence coming down from heaven and I think that you'll feel it you'll experience it immediately when you adopt these ideas yeah yeah okay so that's it for today I hope that was wow beautiful beautiful stuff you know uh uh going back to uh uh some of what you were talking about I heard a great lesson a few weeks ago about uh um how Joseph uh when he confronted his brothers and he told them that you intended this for evil but Hashem intended this for good and the reality is that's covering over the sin in a sense that it it it turned back time uh in a sense it it changed the outcome uh down the line and uh I think that's clear in in what your message is here yeah it's a very good example you gave because I think that's exactly what happened he didn't forgive them per se because it's not his place they still sinned they had to do chuva but he wanted to when he noticed it yeah that I believe as Joseph that every and I could see it clearly as Joseph right I'm putting myself into his shoes it was clearly you know you sold me to the worst possible place armpit of the world to Egypt you know that harlotry and sexual immorality was the worst place there and if you are guarded against it you will not become impoverished and he was we call him Joseph he understood that his role was to save his family and perhaps even mankind um from from what's the word for poverty I'm looking for there was a drought a famine I mean you're talking about it could have been like like what you know millions of people whoever lived at the time wiped out and he had this dream and he knew prophetically that if you save seven years of the during the seven years of plenty this would be enough to hold them over and the truth was after two years alone when yaakov comes down with the family that the the drought actually ended but they probably had enough for the full seven years that he could have and would have and actually did save and he understood he really understood that this was all for the good for the best and he was able to overlook it not hold the resentment although they weren't sure if he still if he actually ultimately forgave them and as we see later in the story but yeah I find so many parallels in his life and uh you know the question with the cup Bearer and the baker also um a red door or somewhere you know that he ended up staying an extra couple years in the prison uh after the cup Bearer uh was restored and uh the reason being is that he appealed to the cup Bearer to remember him rather than trust Hashem uh as if the man himself could could deliver him uh from his oppression and uh uh it really just goes to show how you were saying today uh your show to the world uh a certain way you're gonna get fed back uh a similar way there's quite a reflection for sure that bounces back on us and uh I I love the concept of suppressing our sins uh but I think you've made that clear today that they just don't reach that high they don't have the longevity that a Mitzvah is eternal and uh it I love how you said the building block uh for our uh dwelling place or uh or um are uh how do you say clothing uh clothing I think that's the language you used yeah well beautiful stuff well Rabbi we did miss you these last several weeks but it's always a joy to be uh with you and hear the beauty of Torah and this uh Tomer devorah book is just a wonderful wonderful wonderful material I don't know what your schedule is like but uh you let me know when we'll be doing part nine and everybody out there listening I'll make sure that uh uh it's uh publicized when we'll be going live with Rabbi post and next so until next time we're gonna sign out rabbi all right have a wonderful day everybody bye for now [Music] oh they're not