Tomer Devorah Middah #7 AFTER TESHUVA, HE WILL HAVE MERCY ON US with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everybody welcome back to another episode of beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston uh who's been teaching us the beautiful work tomer devorah and this has been just one awesome class it has to do with uh the attributes of hashem's mercy and i find it so useful to me uh so let's just uh dive right in and see how uh rabbi poston is doing today shalom rabbi you're live on the air we're gonna turn it over to you because we enjoy the light a torah being shown out of the nation of israel specifically jerusalem shalom aleichem dan shavutov to everybody and glad to be back yeah this is a great series um especially now you know we're in the month of ello of course this is uh to be read learned practiced all year round but there is a long-standing jewish tradition especially to study and to practice books like this especially during ello and there is it's well known you know this book is only 500 years old even though the book is 500 years old obviously these um these teachings go way back to uh har sinai itself to the mountain to revelation itself with the 13 attributes of mercy and this is uh tonight the spartans begin their slight and they repeat these attributes of mercy we i say crescendo to a certain extent on rosh hashanah obviously we continue on with until yom kippur itself but uh on rosh hashanah where we actually use the verses from michael verse chapter seven which is what this whole safer with this whole work is based on those 13 attributes of mercy in mikha the later prophets right the last prophets um are explaining what was already told to moses at the revelation itself so as we did mention and i encourage people to go back and watch the uh not just the introduction but all the different attributes leading up to tonight's seventh attribute um the concept behind this is that when you act like hashem because hashem is ultimately mercy and when you follow in his ways you bring him closer into the world you open up i know these are some some of these are very difficult even to imagine they're difficult then to do them and perform them if that one's different you know some people have a harder time some people have an easier time but once we can master them and i'm using the word master them for a reason because required to master the these attributes we bring such mercy into the world number one onto ourselves but also into the world and on to others sh who who would not want to shower and i literally shower mercy the divine flow of mercy into this world and onto others who wouldn't want to do such a thing i don't you know only if you had no idea of the concept of what it means you would not be interested but once you get an inkling and i i encourage you to go back and watch the introduction and listen carefully to the previous six but this is the idea and tonight's concept today's concept is yeshu yoracha menu which means that after truth after someone repents that hashem will have mercy on that person now that may be so obvious but what does that mean what does it literally mean even though it's two simple words yeshua the person returns and hashem has mercy on these people not just on the person doing chuva but on the whole world and who wouldn't want to do that so we'll begin what we do is we'll take the hebrew text we will go through it like with a fine tooth comb to a certain extent we'll go off on tangents with trying to explain through some of the other sources and i have two very interesting sources to bring that i think may be very long and i don't know where to stick them in because he introduces it in the very beginning and if i go off on you know going deep into that we may never really get to the to the rest of the the matter at hand although the the entire topic is really based on this idea so i've been what's the word juggling to figure out how to do this so i think it's better left towards the second half so we'll go through the text in the beginning but know that we're gonna really get down yeah the nitty-gritty in regarding what we're talking about in the beginning so we begin by saying remember this is based on the book over my left shoulder the tommy devorah now it's only really we call the first chapters divide into into the 13 principles the rest of the book is extremely kabbalistic uh very mystical and dealing with so many aspects of what called the sphero how the world actually works on the mystical level how hashem interacts with the world and we're going to do what we call like kabbalah 101 it's real simple stuff okay these are the attributes and it begins by explaining hashem is not like any human being get this through your head especially ex-christians right there's no way to compare i don't know how they even come up with a man-god but whatever it is hashem does not behave in any shape way or form like human beings which he created and the first example the main example in tonight's class is if your friend upset you right your friend angered you someone is angry at his friend and obviously they make peace at some point it's very easy okay you're upset now you're at you no longer brogues but they're showing between you what happens it's true that the anger will dissipate at some point but the love is never seemingly where it was prior right you some human beings we we hold resentments we don't forget we don't forget about them but if a person does a sin and then repents what does that mean it means that this person who then did true but is on a greater level and there's a closer relationship than he had with hashem prior to the sin now that i don't know if any other religion can understand this point um but this is going to be one of the main points we're going to discuss is a gemara in germa broncos 34b that makes a outrageous statement outrageous i'll say in english first in the place where balay chuvastan what's about someone who had sinned and barak hashem has repented and has come back in a different type of relationship with the kurdish baraku then he did before he repented that person is on a higher level than someone who never sinned the actual words here are in a place where bali trevor stan perfect siddiquin cannot stand but malcolm shabbali so i i prepared a lot just on that one line we i mean a lot so hopefully we will surely get to it um so hang in there now the next paragraph begin or maybe i should explain a little bit right i should explain a little bit i think it would be hard for me to explain a little bit without going down that rabbit hole i think for time's sake um i want to get through the rest of this information we want to get back to that okay and we will so let's continue as he says for this reason um okay so in gamora monaco 29b um there's this concept that god created the world through two of his letters actually all four letters but there's a verse actually i'm not even sure i have the verse in front of me and we said it's knuckles um give me one second because i know i have it here um actually i'm not sure if i have it here um okay so the gamora over there quickly i'll just say quickly so we have a statement that god created the world through it's actually it's a verse um that hashem created the world through the yud and the hay of his name uk above k and the yud actually represents a part of the world we'll call omaba the spiritual world and the hay is the physical world so he created the physical world with the letter hey so the gomorrah over there asked for what reason was this world created specifically with the letter hey and it's because the letter hey i actually have here a picture let's see if we can get it okay the letter a has a wide opening at the bottom and on the we'll call it the left side okay the left side there's a small opening towards the top clear is mud clear as day okay um okay so why would he create this world with that letter hey now the gomorrah begins by telling us that it's similar to a portico portico is like it's a room that has three walls but the fourth wall is completely open which is telling you that anybody who wants to leave meaning leave and do sin go ahead you you have permission right free choice okay you actually may leave now that wide opening it's quite wide now it's also at the bottom interesting that it's going down right as opposed to up so that's the first fact and not only that the question is what's the reason that the left leg of the letter hey is suspended meaning that you have this little open space on the top left and the more answers because as someone repents he can be brought back in through that opening near the top now that's already interesting so the question is why wouldn't he just go through the same wide opening that he or she went down from it's much easier just to go back through that space it's quite wide you don't have to climb a ladder right there's no effort because you have to climb up to get into that little space so why not let him so the answer is it might not be effective it's not going to be effective at all because one requires assistance from heaven in order to repent we do need hashem's assistance there's no question about it now there's a statement by reshalakish reshlakis says it's based on a verse in proverbs 3 verse 34. if it concerns the scorners he scorns them but to the humble he gives grace so the hebrew i have that here we said it was in proverbs 3 verse 34. i don't have for some reason all the verses i wanted to bring but anyway in hebrew so that's the verse so basically concerning one who goes 34 says if one goes to the scoffers he will scoff but if he goes to the humble he evokes grace yeah our mercy i see so the meaning behind this is that one comes in order to become pure you have the intention i want to sanctify my life i want to be pure he's assisted from heaven as it's written but to the one who is humble he gives grace now what about the one who wants to be impure he's provided with the opening to do so he can do whatever he wants his free will so what is the reason now that's the first answer what is the reason that there is a here's another picture so you have a little crown on the top left all right i circled it with orange yeah beautiful okay it's a little it looks like a crown and that's how the hay is written in the torah why is there a crown on its roof because the holy one blessed me he says if the sinner returns i tie a crown for him from above okay so we have to like tear this apart a little bit but the original premise was that if someone repents hashem has extra mercy and grace towards this person that would not have necessarily been there prior i think the easiest way to give an analogy although we're going to go through other analogies is let's say when a husband and wife sometimes they get into a little fickle spat and then there's the makeup part and when you make up and you forgive besrat hashem with hashem's hell that that relationship should be stronger now just imagine that's true by a husband and wife why shouldn't that be true why can't that be true with people you meet every day in the street obviously we're not talking about an intimate level but why can't you act like hashem and forgive i'm not saying you have to forget but really forgive and do everything you can to strengthen that relationship better than it was prior to the the spat that you guys had that's really what's happening here because we said god is not like man man holds resentments and it comes out in different ways but hashem is not like that he lets go and he even brings the person closer that's the whole premise here like i said we're going to talk about the gamora broncos the place that bali trouba can stand in that completely righteous people are not able to stand it that is i'm telling you we're going to get into it in the meanwhile and we mentioned about the free will if you want to go out that way from the bottom of the hay it's wide open for you pirous what does that mean so basically hashem created the world with the letter hey he created this world wide open wide open with free will to do evil and to sin ain't such a but this world which is obviously very materialistic and we have an inclination for this world and there's a blemish on every side similar to what we call this um protocol it's called alexandre it's like a room that has one open wall eno ball g'day reem ella pierce gadola perusal so this world it's unbounded with a yarn yawning gap below towards evil that's the world we live in call me she is saying so anybody that wants to leave this world meaning go and do sin there are there are many opportunities it's wide open for him so everywhere he turns he can find sin and iniquity and go out no problem this we could talk about free will another time the whole world right god wants to give us the ultimate good the ultimate reward and therefore the free will is a very it's a necessity in order to get the reward from making the right choices because that's a whole other story so we accept the premise that one of the greatest gifts greatest gifts that god gave us was free will in fact i've discussed this before that really is when we talk about being created in the image of god that was the image in which she created us the ability to make these choices not going to go into that now now remember there is this small opening from above okay that means yeshua if the person does repent he will be accepted there is an acceptance of repentance hashem loves the sin the the sinner who who turned his life around the hiksu now this is um the gamer itself right like so why couldn't the sinner just go through the bottom that was a wide space he went down she went down through that wide space wouldn't it just make sense to go back through that same spot it's wide it's easy and so the gamora itself said lo musiata it's not going to happen it's not it's not either it's not allowed it's just not possible what does it mean it's not possible she this is actually going to help explain later when we talk about why is it that the ballet chuva stand in a certain place on a certain level that completely righteous people cannot stand and that is that when the person does repent so the same fences that are normally used there protect the righteous people from sin are no longer effective or barriers for that person in other words i don't know how it works like with you know illnesses and whatnot i mean broke hashem i think we learned a lot about how illnesses work right there's such thing as a natural immunity but i think this is a little bit different so in other words if somebody went off the path and they were doing sins so what normal barriers like a normal tadic a normal righteous person a normal immoral person they already have these i'm going to call them gaddari they already have these like fences and limitations they set for themselves and they're they're used to these but the person that broke through them already i mean these are broken fences a broken fence that is repaired may not be as strong as the fence that was never broken through so we're asking the question why can't the person just go back through the hole he went down from so because it's too easy to go and slip and slide back and forth whereas the tsarik who never sinned even a small fence should be enough to distance them from sinning right someone who's very immoral and sticks to his her morals doesn't have those broken fences that are so easily uh you know trodden through and broken through okay so but a person but the person who sins and has done he then sinned you know what that small little fence is really not sufficient for that person elessaric dear otsumo kamagadam but what they need to build for themselves they need to erect other offenses that small fence is not enough they have to build higher stronger barriers because they've already breached these other offenses they've already broken through these barriers prior previously so the imyit kharev sham if he approaches those barriers that had previously broken his inclination will easily or could easily seduce him okay this is just so simple so what does he need to do definitely real life ella should certainly drag he needs to keep a very safe distance he needs to keep you know a distance a safe distance away from in that way he won't enter through that wide opening remember we said there was a fourth wall that was completely empty from this room so he'll keep his distance and therefore ella it allah therefore he needs to or she needs to go up remember we're talking about it's a higher opening you have to raise yourself up and enter that small little opening the asa kamatsaros the segu theme the otsuma of the yeast process apart so therefore you must rise up enter that tight entrance subjugating themselves to suffering or pen and pen penance in order to close those breaches to repair the the past and it's me tom setz for this very reason that we're going to say that statement in the place where bali troubastan perfect siddiquin cannot stand but malcolm shabbat aims what does that mean so the bali shrub are not going to enter through that wide entrance at the bottom okay and that's where the siddiqui right through the wide entrance of the zika to stand amongst them you're not going to stand there with the tzudikin now yourself right you endured they endured difficulties in order to ascend to the upper entrance right in order to get to that upper entrance you had to well make yourself small i mean who who wants to do that right we have all of us have a big healthy ego supposedly healthy obviously not right and we have to make ourselves much smaller in order to enter that little space and we obviously did penta penance and distance ourselves from sin to a much further extent a greater extent than the tsadiki needed to because they had no need because they never had the past experience that the uh that the bali chuva had ellen is taro the old derek peta eliot they had to experience some pain through the pen and penance part um and go up to the small area and distance themselves right you have to set up more barriers now the bali trooper rose to the spiritual level of hay okay the amdu madrigate which is the hamish now this is in the uh safer zohar i really have to admit i don't understand exactly what it's referring to but it's referring to the fifth chamber in the garden of eden therefore obviously the word the letter hay is is num is the gematria five and it represents that and that's by the roof of the letter hey where the tadki can remain at the bottom so the balchuva are towards the top where that crown is they're getting crown which is very nice and the siddhi can remain at the bottom but siddique sandra they're standing by the entrance of that that totally broken wall okay they never fell through it's the balchuva who fell through where he chose to go down and when he comes back he doesn't go back through the bottom but has to climb himself up and there's an opening hashem loves for the siddiqui to go through that way now the word chuva itself is broken down the word shriva can be divided into teshuva hey what does that mean when a person does juva it's teshuv hey he's returning now could mean different things returning the hate to its place or he's returning himself to the hey the proper place within the hay so we'll read it like this so the word teshuva can do be divided into shrub hey meaning returning the hay when a person repents he restores the hay of the letter the letter of hashem's name back to its proper place and that is the shechina in other words the the hey represents the divine presence okay the divine presence returns to rest upon the person but wait not like the original love that was before the sin but in much more intense love that only comes after doing shiva the yaksa krishna a much more intense and precious kind of love that will exist with about truly after he sins after he repents and that's why it's called yeshua khamenu that the person who repents has this tremendous amount of mercy that hashem is yo say the israel the name the carving yotai that hashem he adds greater mercy for the jewish people this rectifies them and draws them even closer now we're in the last paragraph and then we'll get back to the uh some of the sources this is the bottom line a person must act in this way just like hashem acts with us we have to really try to imitate hashem and treat our friends who wronged us right obviously the wrong hashem also but they your friend angered you he he didn't act proper with you and this is how one should act with his fellow don't maintain this hatred or any of the anger you had previously alec when you see your friend he desires that relationship he wants that he calls it love i mean when we talk about husband and wife there's clearly a love we have in the by jews we have this mitzvah to love every human every jew the truth is we haven't perky obviously love every human being i believe this is also true but by no heights they should also love every human being yellow bin madre got what happens is when you love that person and you're interested in forgiving that person okay and when you see the other person wants that relationship he desires the love what you should do is show much greater compassion and love than you had previously i know these are very easy just to say and very difficult to implement i understand but you will see the change in your relationship with god and the world around you you're going to open up the heavens and it's going to pour down what should he say hooray he should say harehu li kabbali you know this person to me is like a balchuba and she ain't sadiq even the most perfectly righteous people never sin cannot stand next to that person via krav vehicles basically your you're concluding that you would drive draw this person close close to you even more than he would more than you would perfect siddiqui who had never sinned against you okay this is a lot to um digest no question about it however what i really think is absolutely fascinating is this gamora that we did i even discuss it um no so let's go to brachas 34b and we'll just um read the gemara first when the prophets prophesized about what we see as the reward right the world to come how delicious how beautiful how desirable the reward of the world to come the gomorrah discusses what those prophets talked about and promised was what we call the lower level whatever is waiting for the higher level of a person that could not be described so whatever they described i want to get was a lower level of heaven the higher level was undescribable indescribable incapable of describing the bliss that will be experienced by those who are on the higher level so the gamora actually discusses different types of people who is greater in terms of the reward in heaven and at one point the gomorrah discusses this very point who is greater the one who sinned and came back or the one who never sinned ever so rabbi baraba said in the name of yohana okay ravyokonan is the one that said regarding all the prophets that only they only prophesied with regard to those who sinned but those who were full-fledged righteous completely righteous they didn't talk about because that was beyond description can you imagine okay so all those if we held by rabbi yochanan all of us who basically were not perfect so that's all the good stuff that the prophet spoke about that's what's awaiting us and the people who never sinned who were really righteous that's beyond imagination and it's based on the verse and that verse you know why i don't have the name i have the i have the statement here but the governor didn't bring me to the verse um i do just want to go back to the one point when i mentioned that the youth i have it in front of me that the uk that god created the world with the yud and the hay if you go to isaiah 26 4 it says and you can read it in english no 26 verse 4 reads trust in the lord forever for in yah the lord is the rock of eternity now we've discussed this verse before bitruba noi trust in the yud and the hey forever ki yudhi of hashem because it's within the yud and the hay of the name of your god sure now don't read it as rock of eternity but as the sur means the former meaning the the creator yatzer inclination means the the creator of olamim of the worlds so it's through the yud and the hay and in kabbalah i'm not going to get into it now but the yud is very small and it's actually representative of the male and it represents something a little bit more spiritual the hay represents the physical world this world and there's other other lessons we can go through and why the yud and the hay represent the different parts of the world but i did want to read one small comment the question is where is it i have so many i have the feeling it's not in front of me here it is i might have it it just mentions in the comments that in the safer yet sera the safer yet sierra was a book attributed to adam the first man regarding the creation of the world maybe perhaps adam abraham wrote it and transferred it onwards the krishna who divided his name in other words you had good quebec ultimately and he divided into uh uh the four different elements and that's how the world was created and me also that he created fire water air and earth the kola olam kula the entire world this is very mystical stuff we're not going to get into now but in terms of the spiritual world in the physical world that would be represented represented through the yud and the hay based on the verse i just mentioned because we read sur olamim as the creator of the worlds i know you can translate it is translated as the rock of eternity of eternity there's no question there are different levels of understanding that verse um oh yeah so we were looking at um this other verse that we just crossed we just came across but i'll read it to you in english right for no i has seen it god aside from you the truth is i have the hebrew and i can look there and tell you where the verse is to have the comments there one second sorry i'm not as a what's the word as prepared where is it here it is well it's not the first time it's mentioned i have to see the first time it's mentioned and then it will tell me the verse and it's an isaiah 64 verse 3. now meaning the i all the prophets when they prophesized about the world to come no i has seen it meaning even the prophets who prophesize the greater reward it's not discussed by them because they could not even be shown it because it's beyond description okay so that's regarding what wrote your ruby yokonan said when all the prophets prophesied that's only regarding to people of bali chuva right people who sinned and repented but in regard to people completely righteous that's beyond description now it says the gemura this uh brings down someone who disagrees with this statement and that's so think about you got robbie okanan was the first demon rubio says no and that's our statement in the place where the pen the person who does through the stands even the full-fledged righteous do not stand now it's based on a verse now that verse again i have to look look it up it's in here it is it's also in isaiah and it's in 5719 okay you found it okay i don't have it except i have it here 15 7 19 says create the speech of the lips peace peace to the far and to the near says the lord and i will heal them okay so we're gonna dissect this verse shalom shalom now shalom happens to be one of the names of god but peace peace lorachol to those who are far who look karov and to those that are near says hashem and he will be his healer what what is it what is it why doesn't the word rochok the one who are far closer to god's name shalom and then you have uh and those who are close says hashem and he is his healer so let's just before we dissect the verse fully we'll have to hear rabbi abbahu's opinion so he already said the one who's about shiva the one who sinned and came back he's greater obviously because the name shalom god's name and it's mentioned first the one who are far so he says that peace and greeting is extended first to whom he was far and only afterwards is peace extended to him who is near and who is near is the fully righteous person the one who as far as the one who was far and returned clear as mud now rabbyogram they have to ask usually the way the gomorrah is no rabbi yokonan what do you do with that verse you and he's going to use the same verse to explain what he holds listen to what he says he says i'll tell you what it means you know what it means when it says who's far because that's how it says shalom write peace peace to those who are far it means those who are far from transgression from the outset and that's where pieces extended first and what does it mean who is near who is near who was close to transgression but is now distance from it okay so it's strange they're both using the same verse to prove what they think is the truth now the truth may be that they're both equal on some level there may be and that's what we're going to discuss what are the differences and what was each person of these um the tanay sources thinking when they said what they said because the gemura does not seem to conclude anything however so many like the rambam will will see that he holds like rabia bahu okay like we just said now that the the bauchum is greater however throughout the gemara we actually pascal like rabbi yochanan over rebbi meaning we when we determine it does go the goes like ruby yokinon but in this case this is not halacha this is called sivara this is called learning and darshaning and learning from verses that have nothing to do with how to perform something this is talk about the thought and the understanding from god's point of view so that's why according to many we can go and many do understand the gemara as we said that the baal shuv is greater meaning hashem will not just you know forgive the person but bring the person to such a higher level for those who don't know this this is an understanding that we've talked about in the past if someone repents out of fear fear of punishment just out of fear so that works tremendously their sins are wiped clean but if someone repents out of love out of wanting to come close to hashem what happens it's very strange maybe you've heard this before that their past things they have done wrong are actually transformed into mitzvahs and it's mind-boggling that hashem loves the pentane so much that he'll actually transform those negative things that he did in his life into positives and this may give you already an inkling of why the pentanent is actually more loved or even closer to hashem than the one who never sinned at all is that clear you have okay with that in mind what i'd like to do is go through many of these comments to let's just say dissect and take apart this idea so in the back of them i use the motif to go mars by the way just so that people are familiar this it's all in hebrew and um this is more bronchos in the back it has almost all the commentaries and they ask great questions that well as i'm learning i said well i should have asked that question um and they bring down the different commentators that actually address that very question so the first question i want to bring up is just the the idea of explaining the actual argument who's greater like like what was that based on so it does say that there's an argument between ruby okanan and the review so the explanation of this mock locus of this argument would be knew which one is greater right fine so that's the kodesh explains the argument actually i want to um [Music] i'm going to skip that one okay let's go i'm sorry let's go down to the next one that the rambam actually does possum that the baal troop is greater than a complete righteous person and so it's in uh hilkish chuva the seventh chapter the fourth halacha hepaskins like rabbi abbahu that the level the bout troop is greater than the the complete righteous person and he explains because he overcame his evil inclination he worked he worked much harder and for that reason alone that's the reason why he is greater now there's a comment on that because some ask even the rambam himself um well this actually explains what i i said before um well let's just say let's read it so there's the hmm it seems like he's contradicting himself where he says that it's true that about trudy is loved and very cherished by hashem and it says that it's as if he didn't sin which infers what does that infer in other words the rambam said that the one who sinned and repented is very much loved just as someone who didn't sin so if that's true then why do you why would you think one is greater than the other as he mentions sounds like they're even maybe even the person who never sinned is even greater youth so he answers that really what happens is the one who sins is actually has a greater yearning he has a higher ambition he needs right he wants it to be as if he never sinned at all therefore the truth is that it is possible that through his own truva he is able to reach such a higher level whereas higher than the person who never sinned at all there's a book called the maison rokayak and he asked that the gamora explains that there's a argument between rabbi yochanan and rabia bahu and he says in general we always pass in the halakha like rebbe yokonan so how does the rom bomb pass king like rabia bahu and not like rabbi yochanan so the answer was what i already mentioned that only we're um regarding things where there's a a real nasca mean a real practical difference when it comes to halacha then we go like ruby yokonan but when we're dealing with things that are just hanging with um let's say it's called sevara where we're just trying to understand the verses then and we're allowed to pascan like rebbi bahu and therefore the rambam here does possum like rugby about because it actually makes more sense okay now there are those who bring in the name of the tsufanata mapanayak and they answer like this and even though we say this is very interesting in gemara kadushan now somebody was an evil person and he said to his he's proposing to his wife and he says marry me on condition that i'm actually completely righteous you would think that this marriage would could not take place because any condition that is not true would not allow the marriage like in other words if i say marry on condition that right now i have one million dollars in my bank account and if i don't have one million dollars in my bank account then the marriage is not a marriage well if i say marry me on condition i am completely righteous or the person is saying that and he is not completely righteous how can that marriage take place and yet we know that it does so what's happening here so we have to think about this the guy says to a woman behold marry meal condition that i am completely righteous now even if he's completely evil completely evil this marriage actually takes place because of one possibility that just maybe at that moment he had thoughts thoughts alone of doing truva that he says you know i really want to be right i just i'm not strong enough or it's too hard or who knows maybe i will but right now at that moment he's completely evil but he says on condition like i'm completely righteous it's a marriage because maybe he had at that moment thoughts that can take him all the way to the the end zone from here we prove the halaq is actually like rabia bahu because if the locker would have been like rabbi yokonan then the completely righteous person would have been much better than the baal shuba explains why um because why else would the ma the woman be able to be considered married to him behold also if the person does chuva you know it doesn't make sense he's not he hadn't he hadn't yet reached that level right that he's claiming to to be on so but certainly the kalaka actually is like review because of the greatness the greatness of the baal shuva that he can reach a level much higher than just a regular tzadik complete person who's never sinned therefore he is considered marry on on this idea perhaps maybe he did chuva for that one moment and therefore he has such a high level as a balchuva which about shubha would be certainly uh higher than the um the tsarikama there's another answer brought down in the name of the or zerua and he brings it down in the name of rabbino hananel [Music] and also in the name of robsaji gone these are all like great luminaries then any place that it's written and so and so argues the halacha always goes like the second opinion of the so and so who argued and because of this then we poss can hear that's that's his opinion why the ram bomb goes like robbie now the ville nagon the grow explains that the the rambam actually poskins that they're both right eposkins like both of them but in truth the uh the level of the right the fully righteous person is actually greater than the boutus but what we're referring to here was the level of the bathsheba being greater than the complete righteous person that's only where we're talking about where the kind of righteous person um who slipped just a little bit meaning that there was some test from heaven god like not like job right but where god sent the person is completely righteous a test from heaven in order that the person should sin in such a small inadvertent way just so that the person would end up being labeled about truva because this person who never sinned would be missing that effort to come back to hashem which really means that we're talking about the the kind of he is at sadiq gamwar he would be greater in other words normally we're going to pass him that the person who sinned and did trouba is greater as opposed to a completely righteous person but a completely righteous person who was sent a test from heaven and the test was so light and inadvertent yet they did let's say fall that person is actually greater in that sense would be greater than about you because he actually is about shuver hashem sent him like a gift so that he can be about truman a softball now there are i didn't even count the numbers 20 19 actually there's 18 other answers in what it means that why a complete righteous person cannot stand in the same place that a baalshuva can stand so i i think there's about six or seven that i wanted to i probably have maybe like more than that but if i can go through them uh not as quickly but as i know we don't much time but yeah we got a question from ebenezer i think it's kind of irrelevant to where you were discussing it has to do with the dichotomy there um his question says he says i just literally heard a shirt where a rabbi says there is no teshuva for non-jews he explained that nineveh really did not do teshuva and then he says then i literally heard another rabbi say that non-jews must return to hashem and mitzvot and the rabbi was talking about rosh hashanah and he says how can we make sense of this maklocus okay i'm not sure if there's a mock locus i'm not sure who the rabbi was who and i'll just say it but this is not true it's not true rabbi says there's no truth for non-jews and that ninja really didn't do chuva i don't know who he is either you misunderstood ebenezer or he i don't know i don't know what kind of rabbi this person is maybe he was putting it out as a question there's no way the whole book of yone right is describing the truva of the non-jews this is one of the main reasons the book of yone is there okay um you know you could take no i could take i get a million examples uh i don't think i even have to go through any of them i mean you have um we're talking about you say non-jews assuming that mount sinai changed everything it's just not true i mean from cayenne cayenne you know kane and abel you know uh kane did some trouba right you know the like the time mark a time stamp where this at least they'll give me a running start um it could be like i said he might i don't know who the rabbi is we'll have to look at it i don't want to say he's not a rabbi but it's so absurd um yeah i mean uh yeah send it to me privately i mean just it's so utterly incomprehensible this statement so there must be more context it must be context where this rabbi if he's a rabbi said such a thing has to be context because there's no way that that's even true and ninjas the opposite actually proves that they i mean we talked about it says that hashem saw their actions right it wasn't their prayer it was their actions and and he withheld his anger and his um let's say retribution or whatever it was that he was going to send upon ninja he did it hashem did not do it i mean you couldn't get a better example and we read the book of yeon on yom kippur and these were non-jews i mean i and yum and rosh hashanah the whole day of rosh hashanah is a is a i'm going to say international it's a global holiday it's not a jewish holiday how many rabbis have i heard speak about this that this is like the one one of like one of the main holidays that every person who's on this planet should understand that's judgment day because man was created right it wasn't that the world was created on on the first day of tishrei but it was the sixth day of creation when man was created the whole idea of true i mean yeah we're not going to you know get into a fight with any mentioning any rabbis i'm telling you er without even listening to it but i would like to hear it maybe like i said in context the rabbi was asking more of a question if he's a rabbi at all and if i can get you the link rabbi i'll make sure i send it to you in private message okay but it's very good that you did turn this idea about roshana into a reality here because we are this is rosh chodesh ello we're 30 days before rosh hashanah there is a halacha by the way at least by pesach that one should start learning the laws of a particular day 30 days before the holiday there's a mock locus whether that's only by passover because there's so many holidays i'm so many laws or by all the other holidays obviously this was a it should be but it may not be enforced or necessary by the other holidays but by rosh hashanah everybody does it everyone's learning like i said tomorrow devorah the learning hillary it's it's a widespread custom among amongst jews to do such a thing um okay so the question at hand is what does it mean how is it possible that the completely righteous person cannot stand in the place of a boutus so i mentioned there's 18 reasons i'm only going to bring a handful actually two handfuls we'll see the save for hayashar explains by way of analogy he says it's like you have two servants now one of them is completely believable and trustworthy and loyal and the second one is is like a flatterer i'm gonna say it probably means like a hypocrite or a liar but for sure he's someone that cannot be trusted and the um the non-trusted one angered the king and he sinned against him so the king sends him away from the palace he just sends them away afterwards the the one not to be trusted comes back and um he requests something for he he requests forgiveness from the king and the king accepts him back now after a period of time both both of these servants the trusted one and the prior previously non-trusted one and make a request from the king and the king makes it that makes a decree that the request of the non-trusted member he's now trusted but he had been not trust he was not behaving properly at some point but remember the king accepted his apology brought him back and so the the king decreed that the request of the not the previously not trusted servant should be fulfilled but the one that he trusted all along should not does not need to be fulfilled or shouldn't be the request should not be fulfilled and so he explains why was the non-trust the previously non-trusted servant his request fulfilled because in order that that if he didn't fulfill it that non-trusted servant might return to his evil ways i mean it's almost like you think okay i i was weakened i weakened myself through my sin now i came back but hashem is going to bless me with things that i don't so i don't slip and that's possible i another we're trying to explain our here you know after true that he will have mercy on us so after chuva this this servant who had acted bad previously hashem's having a lot of mercy because he doesn't want to see the person slit whereas the trusted servant the the king doesn't think or consider he'll ever go back to doing bad because he never went to bed to begin with so this analogy is analogous to a balchuva who fulfills their requests in order that they don't return back to their evil behavior okay that's a very interesting explanation by the save for hayashar now some explain that certainly the level of the righteous completely righteous person is actually greater than the level of the boutus but what did rabbi bohu mean rabia beau had the intent that he was speaking about someone all his days he was completely righteous but from heaven there was sent some you know test for small very small inadvertent sin and in order to be able to fulfill the midst of truth because one of the six thirteen myths is struva you imagine i mean i remember these um i think they were called the missionaries these jews for for joshua they used to try to tell me i cannot be a fulfilled jew without you know the j-man because how can you do all the torah you know there's a misfit one of the myths is divorce your wife if you don't get along hey if you get along you don't have to fill that mitzvah right it's only if and when so many mitzvahs are only for the khan eem some are just for women some are just for farmers it's collective never was every mitzvah on each and every jew how about the mitzvah to repent obviously if you've never sinned you never had that however this is interesting because this is the hashem sends even the completely righteous sometimes these small very small and inadvertent sins at least the person could do truva because that's such a great honor to be able to to do truva okay um the yad rama explains that the bali trudeau yesh na mao there is to them some ex exceptional character trait they're on a higher level and that's because of the pain that they went through in trying to overcome their evil inclination you know the pain meaning the efforts the fact that they were victorious over their inclination so they went through whatever hardships they had to go through to overcome and this you don't find by the completely righteous people since they they never became accustomed to sin and it's obviously much more easier for them to overcome their evil inclination so we're trying to explain why is it that the balchuva is standing in a place where even the righteous cannot stand now the roberta yonah explains that the completely righteous person is also someone who reached a certain level now this level we're going to say it's called mamutza meaning the the call average just he's like in the middle um of doing good but about truth he needs to strengthen himself from things which are actually permissible and um he has to increase these fences he has to put these fences around himself that the the completely righteous person doesn't need to and because of this he'll get even more reward than the completely righteous person now there's another way to explain it and this is in a book called that felis lamosha he explains that rabia baahu was explaining that the bali truth are able to stand and remain in the place this is a very interesting explanation many people will disagree with this this is in the name of the clea car i don't know if anybody heard of the clear car but he's one of my my favorite rabbis he says that what ruby abu was saying that the the person who was a penitent he came back from sin he's actually able to stand and remain in certain places even in the place where the sin was committed and not be enticed anymore because it's not it's not appealing to him but he's so accustomed to it but the exotic gummer the completely righteous person who was never tested um and and and therefore needed to overcome his yates heart like this he would never be able to stand and remain in such a place now this why is it controversial because the commenters here be bring down two opinions they tried to explain the clear car and they explain against the clear car so we'll be you know for transparency we'll bring down both opinions although i wanted to not bring the second opinion but i like to be transparent he says this idea is brought down in the clear car if you want to know where it's in numbers 1921 and it's uh brought down in gamora yuma says rabbi yehuda that this bout sure it came to his hand something that was a sin more than once with a particular woman let's say so if the person actually experienced after he did chuva he experienced going back to that same place with the same woman with the same everything in other words same opportunities same same woman same desires and he um he saves himself from it i mean in fact the the rambam even says how do you know you actually your troopa was accepted if you're in the same position the same woman same place same time same everything and you don't you don't do it the question like is like this are you allowed to put yourself in such a situation it seems seems from the clear car that the person is actually putting themselves in the same position and they're overcoming it they're not at all interested um so it sounds clearly that the bachelor needs to place himself back he actually reached this level he puts himself back into the same place and he is actually alone with that particular woman and he overcomes his inclination but the per but the perfect sonic would never even be allowed to be alone with this woman um since it's actually forbidden to do so now that's where we're actually going to get into this controversy because the slack says there's no way that we would ever allow even the balchuva to go into that situation in fact we said before the batuva needs to put in more fences and more distances from the possibility of sin and then the truth is they both make sense they both anybody who's ever sinned um probably has you know two different attitudes towards the sin either struggling yeah for sure it was so despicable and you can you'll feel you'll never ever now again you should never be what you call a trust in yourself to the day you die but if it was such a despicable thing you would just know you would never do it again i'm not saying it's permissible the clear car seems to be but if you were put in that position at least according to the rambam you know the youtube is accepted but then there are those that know that they still have such desires to do such a thing and they should make sure in all cases never to be in that position again right right yeah yeah it's not a circumcised heart to be in that position for sure but right but there is a sense of overcoming uh by facing your your your your own demons or weaknesses and and uh yeah okay there's just a small a small amount more i think they're very interesting and other explanations the um robionisan ivashits explains that according let's say to the letter of the law hashem should not really accept anybody's chuva if someone's evil let him rot right but what a kurdish baruch who is he's roe v rakimav he's so merciful he goes out of his way and he digs like a certain i'm not going to say a pit but he digs a special place by right underneath his own throne of glory to accept these people who were evil and turn the lives around okay and this is a place that's kind of hidden and stashed away so that the angels cannot see it because the angels are the agents who will persecute prosecute the person hashem has such mercy he'll dig in and hide the person underneath his own throne of glory and to this place even completely righteous people cannot stand beautiful explanation the ismachmosh explains that the completely right person is not able to carry he can't like he doesn't have the patience he doesn't have the the strength that the bouncer has because of any previous sin he's not able to to carry this and only who's the melek rakaman hashem is such a merciful king that he knows the thoughts of man and he himself is able to carry in other words completely righteous people just can't understand about shuffle but hashem does and he'll bring the person closer therefore the sadagamer is not able to stand in the place of the butcher i mean you have people with very little tolerance but hashem is extremely tolerant and understands okay and there's a book called the avodah saladi so he explains the actual language what does it mean balay teshuva it means the masters of truva so he says you know it says masters it doesn't say those who do repent but it's the masters of repentance so what is this talking about it's talking about people who are the leaders of the generation they are bringing the jewish people closer to their father in heaven and they help them return in doing shuba they're the masters of repentance right you have all these you know youtube rabbis and you have people that are have many many students and they're bringing them to chuva that's why they're called the masters of truma and their level so there's many other tadikim that don't help ballet true they don't help people return repent so they are uh they're they're the ones who are seeking god more but they're not on the same level as the masters of truva the ones who help so many come back and do chuva makes sense there's a book called the todos yeshua he explains that the the level the attribute the level that these completely righteous people who never sinned he claims that they're actually greater than the level of the balachuva but it's only the particular reward that we're talking about so the reward for the by trouba is going to be much greater so in other words again there's no argument one was talking about the reward and one was talking about a status okay i want to go down to the maharits and he explains this statement is regarding those who are able to like give rebuke and have hashba'ah have influence on others to do shiva that's why it says that the completely righteous person his beginning material from the very beginning he's able to uh you know give rebuke to people who are sinning and return them to their their from their evil actions but ready for this it's not as well accepted there's a very important point here see it's somebody like a drug addict if somebody was a drug addict and then became healed and can then actually affect and help other drug addicts where someone who was never in that position could not really relate so this is what he's saying where it comes even though we discussed these leaders if the leader was completely righteous his whole life it might be very difficult to him to relate to the to the batshuba and his words won't be heard as well right because basically you say since they're saying i i want to read it in hebrew because it's much better to do so mckayvan who may that you know that the sinners are going to turn around to the guy who's a righteous you don't understand our desires for this you know for this forbidden act because you never tasted such a thing in your life that's why they're going to just close up his claims and they're not able the person who's completely righteous is not able to give let's say proper rebuke he's not able to reproof them on the proper way which is not the case by someone who had sinned in the past and ori de chuva he knows those desires he felt it he tasted the sin and he himself is now disgusted by it so he's able to let's say preach moosa he's able to give over the ethics and help them return much more effectively than the completely righteous person who never sinned makes sense and then you understand why hashem would love this person much more he's doing much more for the world and now the last statement i want to bring is someone who explains the words of the rambam some explain the words the rambam that a person needs to look how they not smoke he has to constantly try his best to go the middle route you want to go the middle the golden means right the golden rule which is the straight and narrow let's say you want to walk that path but the sinner who comes to repent from his evil ways what does he need to do first he has to go to the other extreme right he has to go to the other extreme and hopefully it'll straighten out naturally that he'll end up in the middle but you're at one end you need to go to the other end and then you end up in the middle of israel and this is what they say that the place that the bali chew the stand right see the tsatik gamwar is always in the middle he's not in any extremes so the the bautus has to go to the other extreme so the righteous person will never be even at the other extreme he doesn't need to be so that's what it means that um that the the bachelor stands in a place where the sadie come or cannot stand just an interesting idea because the the the batshuv has to go to the other extreme and even the extremes are not good even for the completely righteous person okay so anyway the bottom line is this i know we went through a lot of uh interesting proof texts and i think it was just important to understand what does it mean that the place that abolishes the stands even a completely righteous person cannot right shem ha is ultimately full of tremendous mercy and understanding and we human beings we we we're full of resentment whatever we we we don't forget you know and we'll we have to learn to forget we have to learn to be like hashem and when someone did uber don't hold it against them you know carry it rabbi and i think i think i heard rabbi breitowitz uh share in this week's year uh that we gotta look at the world as though the scale is hanging in the balance when we're dealing with a situation and we gotta tip it to the the right and uh make sure we do that with each and every uh uh scenario and situation that we come and come across and uh also uh uh the rambam one of my favorite works of his is the eight chapters of the rambam and he has one whole chapter dedicated to um the the eminent person uh or the the the repentant person and uh yeah he he throws out in clear language in that book the eight chapters of the rambam which is just you know profound to to think it gives such encouragement for those that are struggling and uh really can help them like i love i love how you described the the hay today and uh uh that was just such a profound profound thought you know with the way that the letter is actually penned out and how it describes uh the world and uh for sure it's just so spot on i will just quote you because they have in front of me the rambam mishna torah hilkish chuva chapter 7 halaqa 6 great indeed is repentance for it brings man nigh to the shechina even as it is said in hoshide 14 2 return o israel until the lord thy god it's also said in amos 4 6 yet have ye not returned to me says saith the lord and yet again in jeremiah 4 1 if thou wilt return o lord saith the lord ye return to me as if saying if you will turn in repentance you will cleave unto me that's really what it's saying repentance brings near the far apart but yesterday this sinner was hateful to the presence of god scorned ostracized and abominated and today he is beloved desirable companionable as a friend they'll find this moreover that in the very language god employs to distance the sinner he employs to bring nigh unto him the penitent whether the individual or the many even as it is said um actually you can read that on your own anyway it's all different verses many different verses that explain how how great is the person who does truva um there were well it says in percyavo uh chapter 5 verse 22 ben hey hey says according this according to the effort according to the pain is the reward so you can see that the person who never sinned never experienced that desire and need and you know to come close to hashem it's interesting because aaron you know moshe's brother when he saw all of the chieftains of the tribes bringing the corbin for the um the initiate initiation for the hanukkah for the for the dedication of the altar in the in the desert he was not jealous but he thought he was missing you know he didn't sin with the golden calf all the other tribes were bringing the corbanos as um offerings in repentance for the sin with the golden calf and he thought there was something missing which you know when i read that i understand that it's sadiq gomer arum was it and yet he it wasn't his initiation it was only because he saw the others so that sadagamer could reach that level it's just that the baal chu knows he needs to reach that level that saddam gamor i'm not saying he's resting on his laurels but he feels that he's on the right path and when he sees the other people who were off the path and doing everything they can to get on the path that um inspires the righteous the completely righteous person to even come closer that's how i understand it so and so the bauchum is greater for the reasons we mentioned obviously there's different opinions about what that means but i think that the person who's completely righteous can still reach a high level maybe even equal to the batshuba but only because he sees he hangs out he's inspired by the balchuva as aron was when he saw the bali truva by the the naseem by the princes bringing carbonate and repentance yeah he kind of thought he might have been missing out on something um but that's just the lure of uh sin isn't it uh you know it uh it plays with the mind that way but um uh i thank hashem that there is great examples of true uh righteousness uh in uh torah and tanakh for examples and it's just such a joy to hear the light of torah come out of the nation of israel and uh even this year today uh rabbi is beautiful um thank you so much i think there's just so much there we've had a good compliment in youtube today and a lot of people chatting uh ebenezer's look looking to hook me up on facebook to give me that link and i'll pass it on to you when i get it okay there is one more just um sorry i didn't bring this up before one more text that has to do with the hey so in genesis chapter 2 verse 4 it says ela told us so the word the hebron let's just translate these are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created so when they were created that it's one word in hebrew bihibaram bara is created create there's a small hay so why is there a small hay to show us you can read it differently you can read it like this that oh i know i have it here somewhere okay i don't have i don't think i have it here but i do have arashi and i think that might explain it this teaches that when they were created on the first day that's what it means another explanation of hebron he created them with the letter hey as it's written in our verse 26 4 and isaiah which i mentioned for in the uk the lord is the rock of eternity with these two letters the yud and the hay of the name he fashioned two worlds and it teaches you here that this world was created with the hay um in other words you read it like this with the hey bahram it's with the hey that he created them okay and then rashi actually says right okay so this imitate in in this intimates that just as the hay is open at the bottom so the world is open for the repentant meaning the world is open they go out and do whatever they want the world to come is created with the yud to tell you that the righteous at the future time will be like the euro it's a small letter meaning that the there will either be very few righteous people or they will be extremely humble this intimates the wicked will descend below to see the netherworld like the letter hey which is closed on all the sides but open at the bottom for them the wicked to descend through there but i think the main point here is be hebron was with the hay they were created that's one of the other proof texts regarding how we know this world was created with the letter hey because we already know based on isaiah 26 4 it was through the two letters the yud and the hay that the two worlds created the world to come with the this world with the hay and you have right there in genesis 2 verse 4. every safer torah to this day has a small hay in other words this was part of our tradition from the very beginning so you can read it with the hay god created the two worlds with created this world well that lesson today really uh pulls in a lot every one of your lessons uh caught in the last little while uh you you quite often mentioned the yud and the hay and uh uh this this really pulled together a lot in my mind and a lot of wow factor today for sure um i don't know what your schedule is like rabbi but we know that these are at your discretion so um um we'll just probably in a few weeks we'll disrupt them get to it anyway it's like one o'clock in the morning here i'm a little like you know tired yeah all right so i hope people were uh you know okay through the stumbling through some of the sources i thought i had everything in front of me which i kind of did but it wasn't in the order that i wanted it it's in front of you right there in your forehead uh uh you shared it clearly and so we're thankful for that and uh we hope that you're blessed now uh i just wanted to pound this out uh uh to everybody listening uh given a uh does such great work in jerusalem coming up to rosh hashanah with uh helping the needy there and i know that uh your last message you said you were just over 50 of your your fundraising drive which you usually don't put on until the last couple weeks but then it takes a lot of time for funds to get trickled in from uh certain sources so uh anybody who uh wants to bless the people in israel in jerusalem specifically this time of year uh you can go to ebene.com they've got a fundraising drive and uh a hundred percent of everything that is donated uh for this drive goes to uh people in need in jerusalem and rabbi poston has been uh just awesome at helping those people a wonderful example of true hesed and i'm so honored uh to be able to uh sit in these classes with your rabbi thank you very much yeah we're just approaching 50 but uh yeah and we're starting earlier because we have much more uh people that need and um whatever you can do you know um it's going to benefit you right we'll bring in some mercy into 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