Rabbi Joey Soffer Shiurim
Shaare Teshuva-9
Good morning, everybody. Today is September 16th. We are on page Mem Alif, right? Mem Alif. Letter-lamid-tit in the middle of the page. Okay, this paragraph is about, once you get on the path of doing Mitzvot, Mitzvot gives you more opportunities and more opportunities. And if you go on the other path, the opposite direction, it's also the same thing. It's a slippery slope in both directions. You have a choice. It's standing at the top of the mountain. And there's a shoot on this side, and there's a shoot on this side. And you have an option. Which one you want to go down? It's the, you want to go down this side? That's Avereot? You want to go down this side? That's Old Mitzvot? Your choice? You can explain it for us. You take lightly, right? In this regard. You know, those are, you're going to get habala. You're going to get all kinds of problems. We mentioned earlier, he says, "Viramitzvah, someone who is fearful of a Mitzvah," meaning what? You're worried you're going to miss out on the chance to do this vah. Like you are fearful of serious sins. You're scared about not doing the Mitzvah. Who you should learn? You should have full reward. You should be careful with every kind of Mitzvah, simple Mitzvah, serious Mitzvah. They all equally awaited in your mind. You should be careful with the Mitzvah, simple Mitzvah. What you think to be simple Mitzvah, what you think to be serious Mitzvah, why? Mitzvah, go there. Mitzvah, go there means to drag really. That's what it literally means. The groan is to drag. So one Mitzvah will drag you to do another Mitzvah. It's going to, but it's plugged in. It should turn on automatically. It means it's not plugged in. The power is not good, all the way. Plug is not good, all the way. Switch on that yellow thing. Okay, fine. So good. Mitzvah, go there, Mitzvah, one pulls the other, and Avirah, go there, Avirah, go the other way also, energy. No, there you go, okay bye. Okay, yellow, 10-page man-bend. Ikarah al-bah-asah. Sadeh al-vadot al-hatah al-vad. This paragraph is about the doe, which we will translate loosely for a moment as confession, but really translates, I think, better as an accounting. I want to see what? How we do it? When it comes to making vidu'i, Sadeh al-hatah al-hatah al-hatah. You have to admit to the sin that you made, pasupram, vayikram. We talked about the sin, not only the sin that was done earlier, in the early generations. When we say, you know, in vidu'i in an'a, right? An'a ha-nuh-nuh-vah-a-nuh, a-nuh-nuh-vah-an-shib-e-tunuh. We're saying sins of our fathers, right? An'a ha-nuh-nuh-nuh. And And when you say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I'll check it later I'll check it before I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' Is it nice? I'm confessing my father was a sinner So what do I say? My father's in a shot! That's what I'm saying? I mean what? So, right, so he says it's sort of a hint to it here maybe he's going to say it what he's saying is when your father sinned and you continue that sin that's when it's potentially possible to receive the penalty of your father also because if you know better if you didn't know better or whatever the reason was that he's doing it but you know better now you can't just continue the same sin right? So he says 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' I say 'Ana' You could be penalized for doing the same thing but you don't have the same thing but you have the same thing and you have the same thing you have to admit to the sins of your own sins plus the sins of your father okay if I go share Ana' if he has practices over here that's a big one that's what we did it's the right thing to say if what they were doing was right but the right thing they were doing was wrong but when you have my soul it's very important to follow a tradition so that's no question about it we have certain traditions this is how fathers did it's fine but sometimes what they did was also not proper so listen you need to make sure that the my soul is a valid my soul how come they did this today we have what they were lying on where they get the sources from how come the circumstances are different alright all the services today is a different story based on circumstances I'm not so sure that we would say yes it depends on the scenario but I would tell you for sure that if we know with certainty that what they were doing was incorrect and we know for sure because we investigated it we looked for the source there was no source to back up them and hide but whatever you want to say it was it didn't exist and it was something that was created by mistake then if it's on Manhattan it's a leniency that they used that's like really you know about it because again people like to extrapolate from one case to another even forget about past tense to now even now if someone comes and asks the rabbi a question right and there's there's leniency and there's stringencies in this particular question the rabbi needs to assess this particular person and just because he told one guy no doesn't mean the other guy is no and if you told one guy yes doesn't mean the other guy is yes you have to give it's a full picture circumstance nobody has the same two circumstances everybody's case is different family life is different the circles the end is different so you can't just because someone tells the rabbi told me I can do this doesn't mean you can do that so it's very very unfortunate common yeah I'm a lot to do this make told my friend that it's allowed I saw myself I saw I saw standing with two people and one guy asked the question the guy said no rabbi I have that same question and he told him yes and he told him no I saw so it depends who you are what level you're on sometimes if you give a guy something that's too tricky in the beginning and he's not ready for it he's gonna fall backwards he can understand no and that he needs a no he needs a yes so you can't just say oh oh yeah the way was oh yeah you're right it was the way it was but maybe at the time that was the circumstances we have to be careful huh okay my rent is over got me started I love you I love you I love you I love you I took these paths of the Tishuba and he sorta summarized them down I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you very famous passeuk you're gonna hear a lot over the next couple of weeks I'm gonna say I'll make Tishuba return Tishuba literally means to return we have the power to transcend the way why? you have to do this you send you fell to the trap of sinning then after that he said take things with you and return to us take things with you and return to us then return to us and then after that what is he saying? you know you have to go on the path I know I want to go to Hasha but how do I get there? well you gotta do things it's not just you know push the button on the elevator it goes by itself you gotta climb the steps to make Tishuba it's not a stay case it's not an escalator you just get on and it goes (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) the evil person has to turn away from the path that he's on (speaking in foreign language) person who's planning to be a wise guy get out of all those (speaking in foreign language) all your trickeries (speaking in foreign language) turn back (speaking in foreign language) what do I do? What does the word (speaking in foreign language) we told me I gotta climb the stairs (speaking in foreign language) we gotta admit first (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) it really should say (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) you would say (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) in front of you over over over there's no tear your heart over your right tear your heart over your clothing right fine okay fine now any or it could be like this it could mean like this don't bother tear your clothing if you don't feel it inside tear tear your hearts right and then don't worry about the clothing out from the sun look don't tell your clothes but tell your heart right fine and make this you but you should again be doing to feel a now me she and a bit but there what about a guy who doesn't admit his sins the Emma mecha say pressure have lawyer's they have someone who covers opposins will not succeed because it's already covered in trauma anyway she and who are you from you are you for me yourself yeah I'm ready for a gem right me name is you mecha say fish have a lo it but they you got a shame oh you don't want to admit to it no problem I'll expose them for you but share avo no lo it has said lead for their person right who does not hide his sins any admits it yes I say Hashem avo hot at all then Hashem covers up said if you admit it he covers it up you cover it up he'll make everybody know about it commotion Emma I shouldn't it's we pay sure he's so it can so it's hot up all right but success praise worthy is the ones that Hashem is carrying their sin he's covering up the sin for them yeah I'm gonna pretend about me when it's so if it's hot ah baby do we how does Hashem take this and do this for me to cover up my sins to me when you admit it emotionally Emma al-emata right we say in the tafila a bit love it bet it betting she'll say that right bet it bet didn't show show mine man that was what's about betting her look it bet Dean basar badam betting basar badam right Adam more day what do they do when you in middle court over here they put you in jail right you guys penalize oh but be the judge am I in right right and if he's out of his he's he's more there and he's more there he's forgiven if you don't know that all y'all all y'all not sure right he said oh the guy doesn't admit you got about it what happens to him what happens to Shama what happens okay he says before you come over here I'm on the matter ha-tati ha-tati-o-dee-ah-ha Hashem I'm going to inform you of my sins like I've talked it out you know okay ha-tati-o-dee-ah-ha right I told you I told you what I did but I've only look at safety I didn't cover up my sins right I'm Marty I said to myself or de al-a-la-a-la-a-le-a-fesh-a-ai-la-dun I am going to admit all my sins right to Hashem they are trying to set it up on ha-tati-sela you're gonna make up you're gonna give me forgiveness because I'm gonna admit them fine it kind of ha-mi-shah-sa the 15th principle it's not just enough to have you do it in a minute and say okay I'm done it's like the washing machine you turn the button on you have to ask Hashem to accept your tiffy law to accept your right please so he says ha-tati-fila you have to pray for it you have to ask Hashem to forgive you sins bring your words the shoe well assume right come back that's it right the imru a love called tisa avon the car-tov za-en-ya-na-t-fil-a the rest of the puzzle anyone who's going to carry the sin and take good good good what's good tiffy la peru-shwe kaka-tov kaka-ma-a-sa-tov-shah-sa take the good actions kha-mru kha-mi-ru grab ourselves avir-a-mikha-be-mitzvah you said right that the mitzvah is like a candle right and avir-a can put the candle out right avir-a-mikha-be-mitzvah we'll be able to teach you what it took it's kha-peru-a-avonot bit or is it kha-mitzvah via eer-na-ra-a-hare-a-shah-lo-i-gia-or-a-ol-a-the-nay-t-shubah you know what that happens you know those birthday candles and you blow them they light again you know those kids you get the kid the kid is going crazy so when you do it you like the candle it's like you break the the kid you do the sin that's the blood the candle if you make this you love it likes again so it's like it's like you covered the sin right the sin was covering the candle the light the mitzvah the earth is covered up you think this you are who likes again like nothing happened before when you when it likes again is it look any different than it was before it's exactly the same same about the lights and about the flames and everything it doesn't weaken anything it just goes out for the sin make the shubah lights again okay fine page some memdala the hilqatou emzah vyashar ahta right if you are pure and straight the gomel patsu amruk kha-mein wethera-bak what does it mean emzah vyashar hai yita lon emar it It doesn't say if you were straight, if you were pure. It says, (speaks in foreign language) you are, right? (speaks in foreign language) You made this you are. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) I've seen them in the time, by everything you had before, all the good actions come back, they come back to life. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Okay, he's switching the plug. (speaks in foreign language) Right? (speaks in foreign language) What is that? (speaks in foreign language) I'm going to open, right? The doors to the guests, (speaks in foreign language) Before you made this you were, your actions couldn't protect you. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) So then, (speaks in foreign language) So it regenerates, comes fully back, you have all the (speaks in foreign language) Good. (speaks in foreign language) Is a concept that we say nowadays, when we don't have the (speaks in foreign language) anymore, right, we used to be a guy with sins. If I have to be a (speaks in foreign language) Now I do the sin, I don't have a (speaks in foreign language) What, how am I going to (speaks in foreign language) I know what I did, I did X, Y, Z, and I know that the sin needs a (speaks in foreign language) That's what it's supposed to do, (speaks in foreign language) So we hold, (speaks in foreign language) our lips can complete the pot. Instead of the (speaks in foreign language) I can bring my tefi lot, my mouth can make up for the (speaks in foreign language) And therefore, that's why we say the (speaks in foreign language) in the morning. All right, we're reading all the (speaks in foreign language) Why? Can't bring the (speaks in foreign language) So I want to say the (speaks in foreign language) If I bring the (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Our vidui, our words will be considered like (speaks in foreign language) that I was supposed to bring (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) There's a whole bunch of (speaks in foreign language) I know it's a good idea. Maybe we'll do one session, (speaks in foreign language) of (speaks in foreign language) say that (speaks in foreign language) and what's going on and what they bring (speaks in foreign language) for each one. But one of the things that we bring is a (speaks in foreign language) which is a (speaks in foreign language) and the bowl is a (speaks in foreign language) that's done inside the (speaks in foreign language) It don't bring the only time we bring, well, there's a couple of times. We bring it's rare, very rare. Then we bring blood into the (speaks in foreign language) itself, okay? Into (speaks in foreign language) we never bring blood. But into the (speaks in foreign language) one of the days is (speaks in foreign language) there's a couple of other times that we would do it, but one of the few times is (speaks in foreign language) he says, so what are we doing? He says this par is brought blood for (speaks in foreign language) inside from the stuff that was hidden. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) The blood would go on to the curtain that separated the (speaks in foreign language) and the (speaks in foreign language) which was used barely for (speaks in foreign language) on (speaks in foreign language) it gets blood. Once a year it gets blood. Okay. (speaks in foreign language) we have two minutes left to do this little piece. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) when you're praying, you have to ask (speaks in foreign language) to cover your (speaks in foreign language) your sins with the cloud. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) please accept it, desire it. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) make it like I never sinned. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) was a person who makes the (speaks in foreign language) every suffering (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) you call out to God, and God will accept you. God will want you. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) it's very possible that our (speaks in foreign language) could forgive the sin. And then all the suffering that you needed to have that sin forgiven is gone. 'Cause the sin is erased, so the penalty is gone. I don't need this penalty anymore, (speaks in foreign language) I got it. (speaks in foreign language) wipe out the sin, and the suffering goes away. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) so he's got, he's in the pain, he goes to the doctor. The doctor gives him medicine. The medicine, right? Oh, you know what it's doing? It hides the pain. Didn't cure him. Then when he stopped the medicine, pain's come back. But if he was cured, I know that the medicine's all together. Right? Pain's gone. If he starts medicine, pain's gone. If you're making (speaks in foreign language) wipes out the sin, the guy gets healed. No reason anymore for suffering. You don't need the suffering. It's already healed. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Right, the desires of the king from (speaks in foreign language) from good things. (speaks in foreign language) We want Hashem to want us, right? (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Right, we want to connect Hashem with light and all Hashem's greatness. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) We want life with (speaks in foreign language) Hashem wants us to live. That's what we get it. He wants to keep us here. 'Cause we're doing the right thing. This guy's doing good boy. I'm gonna give him more. I'm gonna give him more. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Hashem help us to come back, right? Place their light on us and we will be redeemed. (speaks in foreign language) All we need is the light of your face. (speaks in foreign language) But (speaks in foreign language) meaning it's desire. When you say (speaks in foreign language) it means God's desire of you. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Okay, I'll come for today. (speaks in foreign language) Amen, amen, exactly. But we'll have a great day, everybody.