Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 4 / Halacha 2 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're gonna continue in the laws of chuva in the book of rambam we did already in chapter four one we'll do today number two and we'll try to squeeze in also number three we'll see how we go so we're in chapter four if you remember the first salah we learned that there are 24 things that will prevent and stop a person from doing chuva and last class we went through the first five now we're going to go through another five sorry in the first four and now we're going to go through another five and it says as follows um here are five things that would lock the path of chuva of a person who wants to do chuba a lot of you weren't here in the last class when we learned what i was explaining in that there are 24 things that will stop a person from doing chuva and i was explaining how many times you do chuva 70 you're already doing shiva for 20 years you got you got the hang of 20 70 80 20 you can't seem to to master it you still can't fit it in your busy schedule and you don't understand how can i get rid of these two three four sins and when you have different examples it can be a person can say because amazon can a person can wake up to shakari that person can make it to praying i mean yeah whatever it is this you you able to do 60 70 80 you you you can do and then there's another small portion that you can figure out why not able to do that why i'm already observant for 20 years why i can't do this little thing so ignore the etzera for a second so we were explaining here there are 24 things that will stop a person from doing cuba and maybe one of those 24 has to do with you maybe you're doing something and you you you're kind of pinching that spiritual nerve which prevents you from doing for each of us so you have to know what are these things so in chapter one we talked about four things that are severe sins that are stopping a person from doing cuba very quickly just to uh repeat that because a lot we're not here first of all is mahdi arabic a person that makes many people sin the second one is that you take a person that is on a good path already and you're taking him off the good path mainly the person is a sinner okay but the person is already an observant individual and you push him away this is called a missionary or a masit and ahmadiyya missionaries do that i'm already on my path why are you taking me now to a different place the third one is when you see your child goes to a bad path goes off the path of the chuva of torah and you don't rebuke him you say no it's my child i want to be tough on him and we explain that that also applies to when you see another person going off the path of the torah you don't find your any any important to rebuke him it means we have to rebuke people when they go off the path of the torah of course and the last one is what's called the assure that a person says i will sin now because i know tomorrow i can do chuva so these are the four things that if you're doing them these are gonna they're gonna stop you from doing your own chuba now we're gonna go and chapter in there in two another five things that can stop you from doing chuva and of course you have to recognize if you have them because that might be a stumbling block that slows you down so he says here are five things that are going to lock the path of before the whole community is fasting there's a fast of where next week we're fasting at some gadalia he says no i don't want to do with the fast with you you're extreme does the the whole community is doing chewbacca he doesn't want to be with him now what happened so you're not going to marry to be one of them how many people say listen i don't want to fast with you all for the tom gidalia the third of tishrei we have to fast and we fasted the nizam with the moves and tom tanita stale and a person says i don't want to do chuba with you okay so you don't do shiva with us so you're not going to be included also in the merits and this is one example of any when it means that a person separates himself from the from the cebu imagine now we're nine guys imagine now we're made with ten guys and we're saying let's spray him in one says one person says i gotta go what am i gonna go if we need to pray him in khan now yeah you can pray so you're not to have a minion what's the big deal i gotta go yeah but if it's not an emergency why are you leaving us we're gonna now we're gonna stuck without a minion so this is again my one example of the many but you already use your imagination when you separate yourself from the community now if the community are sinning and you separate yourself from them that's not separating from the community that's separating yourself from a sin when you separate yourself from a good community that they're doing something positive and you decide that you are too good for that community next person who contradicts what a sage will say will come even though we don't really have sages in our in our generation but you have great rabbis the great rabbi will say something and you say no i disagree with you excuse me who do you think you are now and we're talking when everything is going according to the book not when our generation sometimes people can manipulate the situation in front of a great rabbi and give him false information and he will give a ruling based on that false information that's a whole different thing but we're talking here that a great rabbi will come and say something and you disagree with the rabbi le fishing remember why is it so severe because when you disagree with the rabbi obviously you're not going to do what he tells you and then you go on the wrong path now and usually what's gonna happen the rabbi will tell you the right path of doing chuva and if the rabbit tells you don't do that thing and you disagree with him and know your dad don't catch you out then you don't go on the path of juventus everybody tells you you're not allowed to do that i told you already that somebody a few years ago he tried to reach me called us who was emailing us calling i must speak with the rabbi okay finally we got on the phone he has a question he tells me another question to you can i do this and this tell him no you can't do that he's that's it that's your answer what do you want me to the answer is no are you sure yeah i'm sure he's like you know you're the eighth rabbi telling me that so so what do you want me to tell you but anyways so many people they don't like what the rabbi tells them so they disagree i disagree with you and they go to somewhere else so of course i'm talking here about a real rabbi the one who puts you on the path of chuva not some clown that is trying to get attention but nevertheless when a person disagrees with the div and it can be there by the way also a rabbi they passed away 500 years ago we have books and if the books say we have shulhana it's almost i'd heard many people saying i don't agree with this excuse you you don't agree with why don't you go down there the stairs to the cemetery and talk to your rabbi and tell him you disagree with him so again we're allowed to disagree with the words of our wives rabbis whether they're alive right now or died a few hundred years ago and it's real authentic rabbis you can't do that why because eventually it will stop you from going on the path of cuba next vote the person that mocks the mitzvot that's the only way of saying it enough now a lot of time a person they they they despite despise the mitzvah or they found them they find them it's a disgrace then you mock them and people do that since they you the mitzvoth they have no importance in your eye in your eyes so you don't pursue them and you don't do them lawyers say now if you're not going to do the mitzvah but what are you going to gain so some people they they say no this means i don't like doing it that it doesn't this resonate with my point of view i don't want to do that then if you despise the mitzvah then you're not going to do it so how are you going to later on get the merit for that next number four hamilton a person who disgraces his rabbis which one can say didn't we just say that with the the so that's not the same because is one thing and a rabbi is another thing is the great sage and a rabbi can come and tell you something and you say no i don't i not only that i don't agree with it you you make a fun out of the rabbi and many people make fun of rabbis chadavar now what's going to happen in that case it's going to cause the person to be pushed and to be bothered exactly what happened to gerhazy now i don't know if you familiar with this individual it says on him that he's one of the one people that lost his he was the talmade of elisha navi the prophet elisha and you would think that the students will go in the path of the rabbi but he went in a completely different path and became made many many people's sin so he mocked his rabbi he ridiculed his rabbi and look whatever what happened to him he went completely off the path of his mansion now since he was he got bothered with his own opinions so you can find a real teacher or morello that will teach you the path of truth now listen you can do it by yourself this is no do it yourself how do you say d d y o d i y do it yourself there's no do it yourself when it comes to the torah we have a rabbi and everybody has a rabbi and their your rabbi has a rabbi and he has a rabbi and he has a rabbi all the way up to moshe rabino and moshe rabbin went up to shamayim and i told you already mikhail is mikhail was his rabbi the the angel and he spoke with the kalos bro but if you're not going to have a rabbi who's going to teach you how to go on the right path what's called the path of truth so if you ridicule and you mock your own rabbi or or another then who's going to teach you how to walk on the path of truth number five a person that does not like to be rebuked or the translation to tohoka is admonishment person that doesn't want you to rebuke him you come and tell him you know what to tell me alone i know it's i know it's good for me oh but you're not doing what the torah tells you now if you're not going to be rebuked how are you going to do you have to be rebuked in order to do chuvas there's no other way to do chuva nobody's going to be duchy if there is somebody's going to pat them on their head all along and tell them how great you are that doesn't work like that you have to be rebuked he says lord you can't do chuma without being rebuked or or i don't know the verb for admonishment why because when you are rebuked it's going to cause you to that's how it works whether you like it or not when i tell you your sins straight out to your face and i shame you with that then you get your act together and you kind of whoa what am i doing and you become you do you repent as it says in the torah and now he quotes here all sorts of verses in the torah that will affirm what he's saying well one of them it says hashem this can be found in the book of dwarim chapter 9 verse 7 which the translation is remember don't forget that you provoked hashem you have to constantly remember that we say that's one of the remembrance we say everyday remember that you provoked hashem and then you got punished and then he says another verse you were you went against the master of the universe you rebelled this is another verse from the book of the volume chapter 29 verse 3 god did not give you a heart and then he continues he gives another another verse also from the book of darim chapter 2 verse 5 verse 6 your ungrateful nation is just quoting different verses from the torah that are saying how did you do chew up by being rebuked and he gives another another explanation he says you know most of the prophets now when we're looking at the prophets we have uh high higher opinion about them we love prophets but i can tell you already that nobody of the prophets was popular at the time when they were alive nobody liked them why because they were the the all the prophets did was rebuke nobody liked the prophets why would they why would you like them anyways so in the book of israel isaiah first chapter verse four he used to rebuke the nation of israel and he says hoy hote whoa sinful nation and yeah that's how the book of yeshayao starts ishaya was like a sledgehammer i'm gonna bang you to the ground and you see how bad you are anyways so he quotes a few verses and then he also says in in regards to the master of the universe ordered the prophets to come and rebuke us for the sins that we do and that's really why the the the the prophets came to rebuke us so all the the prophets they came to rebuke the nation of israel that every congregation and every community they have to appoint a wise individual visaken means old but also means the person who is very wise in the torah the resha means a very god-fearing min that he's from many many years already god viewing not the debate he became beautiful three three days ago some somebody not too long ago told me she asked me a question and he told me but my rabbi told me and i was like listen i don't know who your rabbi is but what he told you doesn't sound so parallel to the torah who is this notorious rabbi so he tells me a name never heard of him never heard of him how can you unheard of him anyways we went and searched for the person the queer person became religious half a year ago suddenly he is a rabbi and he has a following that's your rabbi that's who you're getting advice from person that half a year ago was not even a observant so mean olav means oh years is already a god-fearing diver individual hoover ham that you love that person and respect him why she is that he should be rebuking you all day long means to prove you wrong um and puts you on the path of cuba and if you don't like being rebuked or the admonishments then you're not going to come to listen to this rabbi no i don't like this guy he screams all the time he tells me how bad i am what do you want him to do to tell you how great you are and that's the thing then the ones who tell you how great you are they the a lot of followers they have on facebook because they tell you how great you are who wants to hear how bad you are but nevertheless that's if you don't like to being rebuked you're not going to go to the guy lecture and you know what's going to happen so you're not going to hear what he has to say what's going to be the result then you're going to stay in your sin because in your eyes it looks good because so and so tell me oh you're doing good she loves you so to conclude this has mean this is one section from halacha but you you whether you like it or not that's nobody's consulting with you what you like or not you in order to get your act together as they say you must be pointed a finger by saying you're doing it wrong therefore a person who's smart will appoint on himself a rabbi that tells you tells him when you're doing wrong i told you from my my first rabbi you never even told me one compliment of the day never heard a compliment from this guy one thing tell me one thing no even up until today i i only get smashed in my head how bad i am but that's what you need you need a person that will uh you know in hebrew say like don't get loose here this is very very important because in our generation people are like why are you scaring everybody and all sorts of comments like that and i'm scaring anybody i'm just reading out of a book and you should be happy that somebody's reading out of that book and some people are like no i don't like that attitude and you know the generation and there's nothing wrong with this generation generation needs a slap to its face that's what the generation needs and same thing with educating kids sometimes parents are like no no don't scream at the kid scream at him put some fear in the little kid he needs to know who runs the show here so i i prefer old school and all the the new methods and no and with love and there's nothing wrong with love of course but before love you also need a little bit of a firm hand so this is one of the things that stopped people from doing chuva that they're not willing to be rebuked they're not willing to take criticism they're not willing to hear somebody else with an authority of course not some clown coming and telling them how bad they are talking to somebody with authority that tells the person i'm sorry you're not doing it right who are you kidding and if you are really not accepting that then you're not going to be able to do chiva why because you think what is how did he conclude therefore you're going to stand in the same place where you sin should be enough because in your eyes what you're doing is good so take these four recommendations these five year recommendations from allah bet now we're going to continue basra hashem in future classes for the rest of the la jolla but it's these are things that other people they brush them off but you have to stop for a second be like wait a minute maybe what's stopping me from doing real chuva is one of these things maybe i do mock my rabbi or any rabbi oh i disagree with the ham oh i look at the mitzvot and i disregard them all these five things because we don't know sometimes where the clog is and if you have issues with doing chuba maybe there's a clog in the plumbing and you need to release it when you do what's called what's called the reverse engineering you see where where maybe the problem is so now this other shim we're going to continue and see how he breaks down the rest of the the but for now this is enough material to think of maybe i'm doing something that is stopping me from doing chewa [Music] you