Torah & Repentance are Not Far from You, Rather it is Close to You with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom welcome everybody to the mid welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome tonight we're going to be blown away absolutely Blown Away there's certain information here that it's unbelievable okay you know there's a famous expression many of the non-jews who learn Torah are aware of it it's right it's kazal it's in theor it's in the ra I just want to clarify it doesn't say go it's talking about an akum someone who's still an idol worshipper as opposed to a Ben no a Ben no who what does that mean we went through this in previous classes that the r himself says in sh yov that a non-jew who's really dedicating his life to learning Torah is actually likened to a CO gutle to fix or resolve this contradiction I have discussed this idea that number one a non-jew is forbidden to learn only certain aspects of the Ural Torah but for the main part number one they add absolutely are obligated to learn the seven laws and these seven laws are not seven but they're seven principles that have so many laws they should learn the especially Mish right if they want to set up a system of justice or be involved being a uh like a lawyer or being a defendant or being a prosecutor whatever it is right to be a judge or an officer they should certainly know that and they can also take on any other mitzah they want as long as they do them right which means they also have an obligation to learn had to do it right okay in terms of doing and that's going to be very important for tonight doing versus kavanas and the depth of the which is going to seem to be limited I'm not I don't give too much away but bear in mind you're in for a great surprise tonight um so a non-jew who is a dedicated Ben has accepted that the Torah is from Heaven that's another right and they support what we call the Jewish Mission and theyve attach themselves to the Jewish Nation okay so of course they can learn masses amount of Torah but there's still going to be a limitation and that we're going to talk about tonight so stay tuned first of all become familiar with the verses we're in Chapter 30 verses 11-4 in Deuteronomy I'll read it in English and then in Hebrew I want you to know a lot of things we're going to talk about tonight you probably have heard before but we're going to hear in a way the clear that's who we use as a discussion I also want to mention if you want to learn Hebrew go to the website that would be in the description box below there's a link to the website and you just have to choose the right book and the right um the correct para and to the right side are the Hebrew uh sheets which you can follow along with this class or look at afterwards and we encourage you to learn Hebrew Okay lashes so let's start for this commandment which I command you this day is not concealed from you nor is it far away in Hebrew the word is attached to those words it is not hidden from you the word does not appear it appeared right before the words that it is not far from you it's going to be it's play a very important role in tonight's class it's not in heaven lay more that people should say who would go up to the heavens they take it for us that we should hear it and to do it and it's not on the other side of the ocean lame where the people should say who's going to go to the other side of the ocean and take it for us that we should hear it and perform it or do it but it's actually close to you this matter is close to you very close where in your mouth and in your heart to do in your heart to do okay now when you look at these verses and I have to admit it doesn't seem to be speaking about a particular Mitzvah look at rashi rashi says at the end it is not in heaven for if it were in heaven you would have to climb up after it in order to learn it it seems from Rashi and according to most MIM we're talking about the Torah it's the Torah itself and rather this thing is very close to you Rashi says it's the Torah the Torah that was given to you in writing and accompanied by an oral explanation right it's not in heav it's not on the other side of the ocean it's there for you to do and we all know the story of the special torai right that the the oven that there was a big discussion argument even amongst the sages was it considered impure or impure when it was taken apart and put back together and R Yeshua right stood up for the right and the the the T was not in heaven even the rebbi elzar asked that the carab tree should jump for miles right and that the sea the the the the river should flow backwards right and the walls of the b m should close in and the conclusion is the Torah is not in heaven it's for the to decide right God placed the the Torah on Earth and therefore it's not in heaven and even Hashem said my children have outsmarted me we go with the majority of the this is a proof for the old Torah however we're going to see in the cleart that it's not only the Torah he will discuss two aspects tonight number one it's the Torah that's how he's going to begin but he's also going to let you know that it is one particular Mitzvah there is one particular Mitzvah because it's it's in singular for this Commandment that I command you today okay so we'll have to discuss which mitah that is so I I I tell you to stay tuned we will get to it we will get to it in the second half if it's one Mitzvah think about what Mitzvah is it that is what that is not hidden from you that's not too far from you that's not in the heavens that you're going to say who's going to go up and get it that it's not on the other side of the ocean who's going to say who's going to go over there to get it for us it's one Mitzvah which one is it you'll be happily surprised not at all shocked but let's begin with the clear car so he begins in verse 11 it's not hidden from you and he's going to focus on the fact that it says MIM from you only about the part that says it's not hidden but when it says it's not far it doesn't use the word MIM now I don't know what it says in the English but yeah look at the English for this Commandment that I command you this day is not concealed from you the word from you is going on the hidden part it's not hidden nor is it far away wouldn't it make sense just to take those two uh concept step and put the the end it's like saying it's not concealed from you it's not concealed nor is it far from you the word from you should be going on both seemingly but obviously not and then we'll have to find out why it's only from you that it's not hidden from you I know it sounds very picky you and a very detail oriented but this is God's word every letter every word is special and unique and tells us a whole story so the word Mim is only going on the first part is not hidden from you right afterwards in the second part that it's not far away it just mentions in a general way it's not far so he says I'm now going to bring the idea in two ways two ways in two very unique ways which two ways ready as we had already began to discuss in the introduction it's talking about the Torah itself that is the subject matter here and I mentioned there's possibly one Mitzvah which Mitzvah could it be he says does a mitvah to do to repent or let's use a better terminology to [Music] return now he says which I mentioned above the truth is he probably mentioned in the previous um explanation but I want you to understand that all you have to do is turn back one verse go to verse 10 go to verse 1-1 and you'll see that whole paragraph is talking about the Jewish people's return not just to the land of Israel but returning to a intimate relationship with Hashem it says it in the Torah and tonight we will also discuss how many other religions have gone wrong have totally mistaken ideas about what the Torah is all about if it's the word of God it's never changing and it's true and it's absolute truth absolute truth so when I say turn back one page one verse like just go to verse 10 and it says when you listen to the voice of hasem this verse 10 sums up the first 10 verses when you listen to the voice of Hashem your God to observe his Commandments and his decrees that are written in this book of the Torah so yes seems to be talking about the Torah when you shall return to Hashem right in Hebrew with your whole soul and with your whole heart okay so now let's begin with the part of the Torah second part will be about the Mitzvah of t Okay so the first part is talking about the Torah he's going to also break it down into two ideas so in other words you have this graph in front of you this four sentences are dealing with one aspect is called the Torah and other aspect is one Mitzvah called T within Torah we're going to deal with two ideas one is going to be called the and the kavana the deepest uh knowledge and intent and the other aspect is called a just the performance and this believe it or not is we're going to get into the difference between a non-jew and a Jew okay even for those who are Ben of course if they want to take on Mitzvah they should certainly know what to do do to perform it correctly no question about it however when it comes to the to the deepest part the secrets that seems to be off bounds okay so let's go through it he says first aspect I'll call we're talking about all the mitz of the Tor is collective that in each Mitzvah you have two distinctions or two different properties or let's just say aspects the first one is the actual performance of the mitvah to actually perform it the second one is the the actual deeper understanding to understand and to intellectualize the secrets of the Torah which has hidden kept away has hidden from the non-jews from the Nations now a Ben Noah is no longer really collectively amongst the Nations per se and he's not yet a Jew he is somewhere attached to the Jewish people and I use the statement he is Jewish right he's acting like in certain aspects Jewish he has accepted the Jewish religion right upon himself as a Ben not keeping these seven principles so he's somewhere in between now there are two verses here that if you want to know what the source is that a non-jew who well again I say non-jew a a akum a idol worshipper should not learn Torah listen to what it says in Psalms 25:14 right the secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him so Hashem the secrets of God is with those who fear Him so a Ben Noah who who's accepted the revelation of Mount Si and accepted as a mission for the Jews is certainly someone who's in the category of those who fear Him right whereas an another worship is not however look at the next verse in chapter 147 verse 20 King David said Lo saw kany he didn't Pro he didn't act Hashem does not act the same way with Jewish people as he does with every Other Nation every other they do not know the judgments they don't know the deepest Secrets okay why because hasem has hidden the secret the um from the Nations the secrets of the Torah and handed them over to the Jews so every benov that I know knows that you want to know what the Torah means you go to the Jews they know it they know that e because they don't know Hebrew that's a possibility but they also know there such depth in the Hebrew and the M that they go to the Jews that's going to be the difference right they're not going to read it and make mistakes they're going to say I don't know what it means and I'm going to go to the Jews to find out right because the oral Torah they may be off limits in certain parts but the written Torah they're absolutely allowed to learn and the only way to know the written Torah is with the accompany accompaniment of the M of the Torah so any intelligent non-jew I know there's a lot of people that are exceptions to that right those who are intelligent and wise of heart know to go to the Jews to find out what shot what it means okay and that's why it says l it's not hidden from you God is talking to the Jewish people it's not hidden from you unbelievable why if it would ever come upon your mind to say to say what how could I ever do a Mitzvah without how can I do without the proper intent understanding you know what you would be like you would be like a like a dunk I'll use the word that people know an ass a donkey carrying books right Laden loaded with books not bad not a bad thing to do really okay and no you're not like a donkey carrying books it is not hidden from you now I just want to talk about the word NF n here means hidden and concealed you can see in the first r brings several examples how it means concealed but if you look in the dictionary concealed is only one of many possible translations it also means wonderful wonderous amazing so you could read it either way uh not now later on we're going to come across this word a lot and you can translate it simultaneously as amazing or hidden okay so let's go the next verse shortly we'll see why so it's not hidden from you it's only the hidden things of God's U God's handiwork that was what's hidden from the umos of but not from the Jews now this is a verse in 13914 of Psalms King David says the whole the whole verse is I shall thank you for in an awesome wondrous way I was fashion that's certainly how to read the first part cuz the word but the latter part is also so could mean wondrous I'm sorry your works are wondrous or your works are hidden and my soul knows it very well so I think in this case the second time Nim is used is hidden your your your AC are hidden but my way but my my soul knows it very well King David is saying and right away the CLE card brings a verse in Exodus chapter 32 talking about God's work which are the L again the word m Theos were God's handiwork and that that means the Torah in other words even though he's specifically using the Theos as an example in this verse the lucos represent the whole Torah as we spoke about before Ron explains there are 6 and how many letters in the first set of Ten Commandments 6 62 620 letters in the first set of Ten Commandments those 620 letters represent the 613 mitas for the Jews Plus 7even for the non-jews okay so the word is ker the word 620 is well the word ker which means Crown the crown of Torah which we're looking in this Corona day I mentioned the very beginning when Corona came out that the word Corona is a crown that Hashem wants us to put the crown back in its right place okay we we've been doing for that for 2,000 3,000 years right that the crown should return to its proper place whe whether it's the crown of Torah the crown of mesiah the concept of the crown the 620 k c t r it's 42 620 so it's also the non-jews the specifically right obviously all non-jews should come and accept the Torah the way it's supposed to be accepted by them right and of course the Jews have to do their part everybody has to do their part okay so that's MIM so then he says in truth it's his from the non-jews from the Nations is saying this but in truth right in my soul knows it very well this is Do's own words talking to hem look in Psalms 119 verse 19 he actually says I'll me many do not hide from me do not conceal from me your Mitzvah look at Rashi right there he's talking about the hidden ones the hidden Mitzvah don't hide from me and he's saying God accepted my prayer he revealed to him so that I should be able to fulfill them because if I don't fulfill them now in this world when will I ever have a chance I'm here in this world this is the time for me to do Mitzvah after one passes on they are nar the word Nar is a very interesting word Nar is from the word p p means exempt while we're in this world we're obligated to serve Hashem after we pass on that's it we're finished right there's no more mitz to do it's a time to just receive the glory of hem okay Nar means finished exempt right dead people don't have to perform Mitzvah dead people do not have to perform mitzvah you're exempt okay we're not looking forward to that day so soon because this is the only opportunity we have but once we are finished we are finished okay onward and he ends this verse he ends this paragraph after claim after explaining how doid King David said God has heard my prayer because the prayer was do not hide from me do not conceal from me your Mitzvah and that is referring to the sodas of the Torah the secrets of the Torah now we're now going to discuss the second aspect within Torah I mentioned number one the kavanas the deepest understanding and secrets of the Torah there seems to be a difference between the Jews and the non-jews we discuss the Ben somewhere in between fine what about the the alar regarding the actual performance of the Mitzvah that's what it means doesn't say it's not distant from you meaning everybody right it doesn't have the word attached to it's not distant from all the nations it's not considered distant they are obligated to fulfill mitv certain ones they have an obligation God does not he never commanded you to do something like a a Mitzvah which is what which is so distance from you that you need to have materials that you that are not available anything that he commanded you should be ready readily available okay is that why it says doesn't say were you talking about what the second what we said before ah could could very well be it could very well be but that resources you don't need resources it could very well be but um that was in the LA that was in verse 10 yes okay but right now we're only dealing with 1 through 11 through 14 I'll have to think about it but I'm glad you brought it up so now we're talking about the AIA and he's going to compare to carbonos now this is very interesting right I never thought about this I never thought about this but obviously the Sages have and right and Jewish wisdom includes this idea when it comes to corote we're going to make a comparison an analogy tobot to all the mitzvas when it comes to the corbane what does theem say I want you to skip num well within number seven I wrote down Deuteronomy ch 14: 4-5 right these are what we call kosher animals that you can eat that's edible animals that you're allowed to eat right these are the animals you may eat it's broken into two verses it's an ox a lamb and a kid that's three and then there's another seven a gazelle a deer an antelope IEX I have no idea what AOS a bison and a giraffe I know what they are but Theos whatever they are so there are these other we call them wild animals they're not domesticated these are also permissible to eat but when it comes to kurote we do not bring wild animals onto the altar it's only the domesticated so in it mentions that God says there are 10 animals that I allow you to eat that that I gave over to you three are in your Rus Rus means Authority possession right they're within your boundary your environment and seven are not the three that are we mentioned the first part of the verse that is the o the sheep and the goats okay now the seven that are not Inus that we said is the gazelle the deer the antelope the IEX whatever thiso bison and giraffe but the the the medish goes on and says I God did not make you go out of your way I didn't bother you I didn't say to you to bring to go sorry Leia to go in the Safari to bring me a giraffe I didn't ask you to go to the mountains to get me you know these gazel right I didn't ask you to go way out of your way to bring before me a Corbin from those things that are not within your environment with with not in your rute that is not under your Authority but rather from what is in your rute and whatever is growing up eating out of your trough right out of your hand meaning it's in your Corral it's in your backyard if it's not yours your neighbor somewhere in your city you can you don't have to go across the ocean you don't have to go anywhere far to get it you don't have to go Safari in Africa but rather this is what it's telling you that these things now think about it so the coronos are things that are within your ability to get so too when it comes to the Mitzvah it's within your ability to do okay that it's not too far from you okay everything is within your city within your limits whatever it is fine so let's read go back to the clear he says Corban like the God never asked us to go out of our way to bring these types of offerings that are not in our possession but rather from these domesticated animals that are within and from there there's a he a heish means to make a connection this analogy complete how just right just we're going to make it now connected just like it is to Theos to the offerings so too to all the mitzah he God did not require of you or command you or ask of you to go out of your way far distance to to to get a material for aah but rather from things uh materials that are close that are common and close to you now the next paragraph now he's going to go back and review in order and he's going to discuss it like this according to what I said remember it says it is not hidden from you this is the that was given over by that was given down from heaven that's the wisdom the SE the theodos the SOS the secrets and what does it say in Mish that's Proverbs 2:6 it says for the Lord is the one who gives wisdom it's coming from Heaven it's coming from him from his mouth come knowledge and descent if you read Rashi he says because it comes from Hashem that's why you have to acquire it he's giving you a gift don't don't lose this opportunity take it acquire it okay now in order so you don't say this is what people would say as a mistake if they didn't know this they would say you know what the action which we did say is the difference between the Jews and the non-jews right the action God gave to the world right a Jew must pay attention to this it's true God gave the Mitzvah to the world down here active action but don't think that the was not given we just gave it from Proverbs 2:6 don't say that the the was not given that it's still in heaven that's why the Torah tells you it is not in heaven guess what also the action is down here so too is the wisdom was everything was given to us okay and then what it says we just turned the page is not distant regarding this what do you mean distant right away he gives you this like example don't it's not on the other side of the ocean it's not on the other side of the sea god did not command you to bring he didn't ask you to go to Africa to find the giraff but rather close to you is the matter D is matter it's it's material and where is it and it's in your heart to do now he's going to explain what does it mean in your heart it's the M that's the M now I asked my students where's your heart and I like when they point to their head okay so we don't know where the we say heart it's it's probably in the head right it's probably in the head the soul but you know what for all practical purposes I'm pointing here right there's got to be a Mind Body Connection and that's where the heart is okay but that's where the wisdom the wisdom is in the heart and be mouth that's with the place of the now that might be a little bit hard what do you mean just moving your lips is doing something well we all know the verses right that I will serve Hashem with all of my lips Limbs and you know what when the Jews pray one of the obligations is to move your lips and when we learn Torah which we'll see now you move your lips that's why it's called mik the the scripture I have no idea where the the word scripture came from you know in terms of the uh the atmology but in Hebrew mikra means to read the word mikra means to read that's how you do it and reading requires you to read we're talking about reading out loud we have public reading right you read with a you read right you have to move your lips so he says now what happens when a opportunity for doing a Mitzvah did not come to your hand it just wasn't available this is amazing you can do the Mitzvah with your mouth how as kazal tell us in Manos that anybody who is involved in Torah in fact specifically here an example it says in man anybody that reads right we don't have the temple today if we don't have the opportunity to do you read Theos you read the offerings it's it's as if you offered them and therefore there's now a heish again a connection to bring the analogy all the way home so too all the Mitzvah are like this if you're if you're learning about the Mitzvah it's it's as if you perform them right it's unbelievable and that's what it means in our para when it says in your mouth and your heart to do to perform and we all know in 14:3 it says at the end and let us render the Bulls for for Bulls the offering of our lips in Hebrew it goes like this right that when we don't have the opportunity to offer the offerings anyway we don't now we right then we have prayer we have the opportunity to move our lips right through prayer which is in place of the offerings back to the he says right as when you read Theos the offerings it's as if you actually perform them so tovah the same thing is true when you do even just to learn about a Mitzvah it's as if you perform them now what if you were Nas you wanted to perform a Mitzvah but something prevented you right you did everything to prepare to do the Mitzvah and something came up you saw a woman across the street that needed help an old lady uh to whether she fell and you need to help her up or she wants to cross the street and you run halfway across the street and someone gets there first that's called Nas something prevented you from performing the Mitzvah someone was already there it's guess what Nas you didn't get to do it teaches us that you get credit as if you did it and that's what it means in your mouth and in your heart to do okay so far so good everything we talked about right now up until this point was the whole T I mentioned in the beginning that there if you look at it it sounds singular it's talking about one particular Mitzvah he already alluded to the fact that it has to with chuva right rashash is around the corner but you know what this applies all the time anyway not just not just today because it's it's but he says like this sh the second way the second way to look at it is when it says this for this Commandment that I commanded you it's referring to repentance just go back to to verses 1- 10 of chapter 30 and you see the whole paragraph is referring to and this is where I'm going to get into this idea that the other religions specifically Christianity has got it entirely wrong right here it says if we're talking about tra it's not hidden from you there's no excuse there's no you can't apologize for not performing it by saying that God himself doesn't accept repentance uh from Sinners and that's what many I think the Greek philosophers started with this idea and Rome basically the idea is that God is so big and so high that he will never accept me as as a as a penitent okay therefore idol worship and this is what Idol idol worship is putting anything between you and God as an intermediate and we all know Christianity has basically done that I don't know every aspect of Christianity there's many I think there's like 80,000 different uh Cults different sects of Christianity but let's just say the the majority the vast majority within the philosophy of Christianity is that God is the father he's just way up there and therefore you need the Sun the intermediate because I think that even quote is such a quote I like to quote it in a different way right because I think they say JC said that there's no way to the father except through me I want to say Jesus was a Jew and the truth is there's no way to get to the father except through the Jewish people right Hallelujah brother and that's what I said in the beginning of the class that for a true Ben Noah understands this clearly that it's only through the wisdom and the knowledge connect yourself to the mission of the Jewish people okay so idol worship is using a classic deity and and not the true M that God gave okay so let's go back to what he says that you don't have there's no there's no place for you to excuse yourself by saying I didn't know that God himself would would accept but this is by a Jew a Jew has to know that what that the whole concept of chuv is known to the Jewish people more than the non-jews we have to know that God accepts this and how do we know listen to this his claim is based M basically saying that before the world was even created prior to the creation of the world there were seven things created I want to go through them but I'm only going to talk about two of them in other words I'll mention all seven how many things preceded The Act of Creation this is midan number 11 how many things preceded The Act of Creation our masters taught what seven things preceded the world they are number one the Throne of Glory number two the Torah number three the temple number four the ancestors of the world number five Israel we're going to talk about Israel the name of the Messiah and number seven the repentance keep in mind if Israel and repentance were from before the the creation of the world They Know Each Other Well they were alone with the five other objects before the world was created so Israel knows repentance well but we're not talking about that yet we're just going to show you the case where both Israel and repentance came before the world there's two verses that I want to share with you and that would be in Psalms and the case of isra how do we know look in Psalm 742 it says remember your assembly that's the Jewish people you acquired them Ken Ken means from before way before it's like Primo right to the east but it means uh in time early on and the other verse about about repentance how do we know that repentance came before the creation of the world look in Psalms 90 veres 2 through3 it starts off with UL right before or early teram early on the first thing was the the mountains were created actually before the mountains were even created so look towards the end of the verse it says you return to humanity and Contrition and say repent you Mortals repent benam so before the mountains were even created repentance existed so what H what do we see so far that both Israel and repentance existed before for the world therefore the Jewish people know they don't need an intermediary that God will accept their repentance because just as they know they exist repentance exist it's got to be so Crystal Clear to them they don't need anything else they don't need an intermediary and for a Jew to believe in anything that would get him to heaven right as these other religions that's called idol worship for a Jew okay back into the text so the last thing we read was the reason why CH should be known to the Jews so well is because both the Jews and chuva were created before the world if that's the case CH when God created trua sh you were there G each and every single Jew they know it but you know what the non-jews need extra further extra warning regarding Chua just like yon had to go to the non-jewish city or area called n but you the Jewish people you don't need that extra fervorous um type of warning because the secret of doing tra was already revealed to you from way back Prim Prim Prim eval times primordial times no it is not hidden from you the is talking to you the Jewish people it's not in heaven you would have to say who's going to go up to heaven and take it for us right but we know that's the other religion they claimed someone had to go up there bring it down for them by saying that you might think ah God does not really require of us to uh trample through his Courtyards um someone who sinned but rathera but rather let's maybe we should request from Hashem if he will accept our truva or not but no that's not it at all but rather the secret is already known known to you as Jewish people and thear continues or perhaps it's going on what we spoke about before in verse two in other words chapter 30:2 I told you it speaks about already CH it says the and you should return until Hashem himself meaning all the way now if you want to say now this is where people who aren't privy to this information if you're going to say mistaken me if because of my sins that have you know perverted me that basically caused the sh the divine presence to go up away from this lower world where I'm at and went back up to heaven if that's the case then you might think that I will return to Hashem but he's not necessarily it's not going to be symbiotic I can like the command is return to Hashem so what if I return to him remember it says not in heaven but I might think I have to go up there but it's not going to be um a two-way um relationship it just says I return to him he's not going to return to me especially because I'm the one who caused his his his distancing himself from me how am I how's it possible for me to actually return to him so I would think I need to go all the way to heaven and return all the way to God if that's the case then nothing here makes sense why how can I return to the spirit of God that's why it says it is not hidden from you either even from you it's not hidden from you the whole concept of R return to you don't need to go all the way to heaven to return to AEM the only thing you need to do is to open your heart that's all you have to do really the words all you need to do is return is prepare your heart to return and once you do that Hees the Holy One Blessed Be he the creator of the universe the all powerful the mighty one he will return He will turn around and return to you and the will then descend to you all you have to do is prepare your heart that's all you have to do and how is now going to be discussed in the next paragraph because it says it is not distant from you what does it mean according to it discuss what exactly is about about Thea generally speaking is someone who I say I should say specifically speaking is one who had was religious righteous then went off the D became a sinner and now wants to repent right we use the general terminology though for anybody who is in that category or was never religious and became religious or maybe even a convert right someone who really turned the lives around there they had like the status of about Chua okay because they tasted sin okay so basically in gamor Yuma it asked the question what are the circumstances that demonstrate the one has completely repented because that's bow to means a master of repentance Ruda said for example a a prohibited matter came to his hand perhaps once or twice but the last time that he did it he stopped from doing it he was safe from it therefore proving that he's completely repented now Ruda demonstrated what is this this mean he's talking about someone had the opportunity with the same woman that he had same that he had sinned with previously at the same time meaning with all the same desires and the same place meaning all the circumstances were the same everything is aligned as it was the first time when he sinned but this time he overcame it overcame his inclination and this will prove that he complete that his repentance is complete and he is Forgiven now that is what AA is however when we think of these words and we hear them many times in our lives we're going to hear something brand new something that we should really take to heart and I don't mean I'm not using it as a pun I'm meaning real and let's hear what he has to say so here here's the Hebrew what exactly is about menu that came to his hand another opportunity to do a previous sin and he didn't do it gives an example he demonstrates by saying at the same time in the same place with the same woman now if that's the case listen to this what happens if somebody sinned with a woman who was across the ocean now I want to become about Chua does that mean I have to go all the way back to that place to be in the same circumstances well remember it says it's not on the other side of the ocean you're going to have to say who's going to go over there and bring it to us we're talking about this is the mid of TR so what if you say maybe you would think to say that I have no help I have no hope I have no way of fixing myself until I go back to that place to be with that same woman in the same place same circumstances and then I'll know about tra you think that's you think that's what God wants you to do well she gotten older Me Maybe maybe maybe but you would think you have to go and in um um you know with all the measurements with all the character traits you s the first time they all have to be there the second time and you know what if people think like this they'll never do Chua now they do full chuva because they say you know what what's going to help it's only going to help if I'm in the same place with the same woman the same time same circumstances and if I'm not there then what's the point of trying to beat myself up and try to change just Y and that's why it says the matter is close to you what is means in your mouth that's called V Vio is done with the mouth now in our religion we talk to Hashem you have to actually speak to Hashem we don't go to some priest or some father or some whatever clergy that could be could be helpful sometimes but that's not required right the main thing is to talk it over to hasem and that's called confession and that's done with the mouth what about your heart right it's not it's this thing is close to you it's in your mouth in your heart to do the heart is reminiscent ofat is Regret you have to feel it and I'll just give a plug if you want to look and learn um I started a kabora on Sha we got as far as if I'm not mistaken the 14th paragraph and you can look I'm going to put a link below for the sh Chua kab series and we're going to continue that after the holidays but uh we talk about Kata a lot anyway karata has to do with the groaning and the the pain of the heart that's enough enough for what the confession Shalom good that's enough for the confession and the you don't have to necessarily go back and experience everything and he's going to explain CU where did the take place remember it says in the same place guess what it doesn't have to be in the same physical place is we're talking about in the heart the mouth and the heart that's where the sin took place I'll read it again but rather it was in your mouth and your heart that's the place of sin because it's the heart that perverted you the very same place where the mistake took place which was in the heart cuz it dragged you down it's the same place where the tikun has to take place it's not in heaven it's right here man it's right right here you have all the necessary material and ingredients within you in your heart and in your mouth meaning when we talk about the heart that's the place kilar the only time it said Isa the same woman it was just for clarification of a specific inst instance but it didn't have to be it was just an example just for clarification of the matter it doesn't have to be the same woman doesn't have to be a woman at all the heart is where the took place and the heart is where the re the um the recovery will take place in other words the sin and the mistake took place in the heart the T the fixing is going to take place in the heart that's the M that it's talking about but the prime um per the prime U part of repentance has nothing to do with the woman has to do with you okay now we're on the last paragraph and it's very deep I'm going to hopefully get through it with slowly with some understanding here some say so far we actually been speaking about chva and regarding chva repentance or returning that because Hashem is so way up there right the truv is something that's so hidden and so awesome I'm using both words here it's just beyond us because if anybody this what you might think right any man who divorces his wife it's true he's not allowed to take her back as a wife if she married someone else okay so what would you ask how would a king of kings right how would the King of Kings who is melik RA he's just way up there right how could he ever relate back to the people that sit they turn their backs to him and they actually fornicated with foreign Gods right they went and prostituted themselves like the word adultery in Hebrew anyway right the concept adultery and um adultery and idolatry are somewhat synonymous right if you're in a relation with AEM and you went ahead and committed idolatry it's like adultery right when we have the five Commandments on each tablets right number two is do not have any other gods and number seven is do not commit adultery right so you have number two and number seven all of them match up that's not for tonight okay so that's true by a Earthly person who divorced his wife so you want you ask yourself how could the king of all kings ever take his subjects back who went against him but you know what it says you know what it's not hidden from you meaning the clear car is explaining it the whole concept chva is not hidden from you you could do it it's close for you right it's not hidden from you as it says in Psalms 103 see Hashem yes he's ra Isa but he created us and he created us from where the dust the dirt I never use that word I usually soil I like to say soil right but here I'm going to use word dust and dirt look look at look at the comment 103:14 it says Z he remembers that we are dust look at the Rashi he remembers that he has not forgotten that we are dust he knows what he created we're material we're not spiritual purely Spiritual Beings we're material as well so he knows that and not only that that okay that's from the aspect of Who We Are on a physical level what about the spirit if you look in in Calis which is Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 20 there's no such thing as a perfect righteous person who only does good and doesn't sin even on a spiritual level we don't have Perfection here Al therefore l dictates that he of course will accept our chuva because nobody here on this planet Earth is perfect except for a few a few a handful of people but okay he says perhaps that's exactly why it says this whole thing of Chu is not in heaven you don't even need the Angels they don't sin of course they don't have chuva the chuva is here it's all about it's not in heaven there's no point in having truv in heaven because this the angels Don't sin there's no such thing as a fallen angel even the Satan is doing exactly hashem's will he's TR tripping us up he's testing us he's persecuting or Prosecuting us has nothing to do with the Christian idea of the Satan get that straight we can do a whole another series just on that but here we're talking about the Angels Have Nothing to repent for because they don't have free will it's only for you the whole thing of Truth is only for you not for the Angels nobody is an angel may offer you but man who is born from the dust but therefore it's from your aspect that tra is that trua is something that is fitting to be received by Hashem because he loves us with an eternal love an everlasting love he created us he knows how vulnerable V vulnerable we are and he only wants to give us the greatest good and therefore trua right Free Will is the whole purpose of his ability he can do whatever he wants to give us the greatest good if we didn't have the free will then the good we receive we would receive would be worthless there would be no value right people who have everything they ever wanted right whether it's a Porsche one day a Lamborghini the next day or a some kind of a palace so what if you gave a gold ring a diamond ring it would mean nothing to them right the reason there's value is because there is the friction of choice right and that's the Human Condition right God wants to give us the greatest good therefore he gave us free will in order to grant us reward for the choices we make and now is coming up rashash I just want to leave this idea that was the day the world was con conceived and my briz mentioned specifically the concept of conception conception is thought and emanating that what you think about positively coming into the new world new year is how you're going to be judged let's all think positively right praying for the health of others only thinking good of others and um hopefully of course repentance for what we did wrong but to be in the position where we would hope y commit not to transgress again right so that's one of the part of part of TR the but to have a conviction to make a better life and to behave much better in this coming year and I want to thank everybody who's watched us through this past year I I think uh this is the last class until after sukus okay so for those in Jerusalem if they're interested in buying ARB Lula vestro they can come to me contact me we deliver and I just want to wish everyone a and um I hope the pandemic is over soon and we can all travel to AR Israel freely and anyway I wish everyone a shabbat shalom C welcome the Torah oh I might as well just say also if you have charity and you want to give it away we have people in need that we also buy AR the AR we give them to people who are in need but food for the holiday we actually distribute money as well as food and anything else that they need so we are a 5013c I think that's how you say it but we actually are tax deductible in most countries right so anyway here's your opportunity to partly do trouva right pray trouva charity it's all going to help you in this coming year and signing off colto all the best have a great life [Music] it's [Music]