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This Jewish Inspiration Podcast is dedicated to learning, understanding and enhancing our relationship with Hashem by working on improving our G-d given soul traits and aspiring to reflect His holy name each and every day. The goal is for each listener to hear something inspirational with each episode that will enhance their life.
You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of Torch in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.
Welcome back everybody to day number 174 Page number 913, the Treasure for Life edition of the Yorh HaSedikim in the Gate of Repentance Kol mitzvot Shabbat Torah, all the mitzvot Shabbat Torah, b'n'aseh u'b'n'los haseh, whether they're performative commandments or prohibitions Im ovar odam al'achas me'hem b'mizod u'beim b'shkogo k'shayaz et'shuv vi'yosha mecheto chayiv l'izvados lef'nei el baruchus
He's giving an overall general rule here. Any sin that a person does from the Torah, whether it's a performative prohibition, whether it be a prohibition that one transgressed, if a person did this whether it was intentional, non-intentional, by mistake or not by mistake, not by mistake, with will or without will, a person has to repent and then a person also needs to confess his sins Sheh ne'emar ish o'isho ki yasu mekol chatos ha'odam lim'or ma'al ba'ashem va'ashmo ha'nefesh ha'hi vi'his va'adu es chatosam asher osu
This is verses in numbers where the Torah tells us that a person has to come clean on their sins. Ze'vidu'idvarm. What is confession? Verbal confession is speaking out your mistakes. Ve'chol ba'alei chatos va'ashamos and any person who sins, all who must bring sin offerings or guilt offerings, ve'chol chayiv emisus b'ezin, and all those who must who are, who incur judicial death penalties or lashes are not aton for by death. At she'yaset shuva vi'his va'adu, aton for by death until they, sorry, they're not they're not
they're not forgiven till they repent and confess. Ve'chen ha'chova b'chav'eru ma'azek b'mimono, someone who hurts his friend physically or damages their possessions, af'al pi'she shilim lo, even if you pay for the damages, ein miska'per lo at'chi his va'adu vi'yoshuv me'lasos ko'zele olam, a person has to actually go and apologize and say I'm sorry and seek forgiveness. I damaged your car and and I paid you, the insurance covered it. You have to walk over and say I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Ve'kei tzedid his va'adu, how does one seek that?
First is we start, you go to the person, he says ono if this is a sin between man and God, he says ono Hashem, k'otasi avisi pashati r'vanecha va'asisi kach ve'kach. He says I have sinned, transgressed, offended before you, O Hashem, and I have done this and this. Ve'harei ni'chamti ve'boshti b'maasai, and now I regret and I am ashamed of my deeds and will never revert to them again, ru'lo olam ein ye'chorot zeh lo dober hazeh. Ve'zeh ikr shel avidui.
This is the most important part of avidui, u'chol ha'mar b'lis va'adus, u'marach b'inyan, zeh ha'rei zeh meshubach. And the more a person confesses his sins, the more commendable it is. Gam zeh ikr havidui, aval anachnu chotanu. When a person says but we have sinned, that is a very important part of confession. Ve'tov ma'od li'foret ha'kheit shelo b'soch havidui, ki g'on im ochal neve'los et shefos, o u'shar dober isu, ki sh'yomar ashamti, yomar ochalti dober oso.
Ve'im chotav iznus, sh'yomar b'gadati, yomar bi'alti bi'ilas nus. If a person ate something which is not permitted, when he says ashamti, then I'm guilty, and I've eaten forbidden food. If a person had illicit relations, he says I've been unfaithful, and then he should say I have had illicit relations. Ve'iforesh bo'im bo'al goyenid, then a person should speak it out in front of the Almighty. What are the sins that he did? Ve'im g'on if a person stole, ki when he says g'zalti, for I have stolen,
for I have robbed, he should say as yomar mi'ploni, ploni g'nafti, ve'g'zalti, I stole from this person, I stole from that person, and of course you have to make sure that you return the money that you stole. Ve'im oti et shem ra'al chavere, and if a person reprimanded his friend publicly, a person he embarrassed his friend publicly, he put out a bad name about his friend, spoke lashonera, slander,
o shum k'inui, or any type of sin against a fellow, when he says dibarti dofi, when he says that I have spoken defamation, he should speak it out and say what it was. Ve'im hotzi shichvazer levatola, k'shi agia le'havisi, oz yomar otesi shichvazer levatola, and if a person had a caused himself to have a seminal omission, then a person should say, when I have perverted, a person should say in what way he did it. Ve'im zonah im ha'arais, k'shi agia le'ezadati, yomar zonisi, ve'im chilo shabosos, k'shi g'ya la'chamasti,
oz yomar chilalti shabosos. In each one of the sins a person should articulate what are the sins that he is asking for forgiveness for and atoning for in his confession before the Almighty. Ve'im chamet, if a person was jealous, he should say, yomar chamadati, I was jealous of so-and-so, I coveted this and I coveted that, and go through the letters of the Aleph-Beth, ve'khen lechol alfa beso, you should go through the whole Aleph-Beth, and anything, lechol os ve'os she'bevidui,
yomar me'osah ve'rosha osah, a person should speak out what is the sin that they have sinned with that letter that you speak in your confession. Ve'yomar bevkhin, a person should say with tears in his eyes, ya'azov rosh ha-darka ve'ish avan ma'ach shavosah, ve'yosh aval ha-Hashem ve'yirachamehu, ve'el eloykeinu ki yar bel isloch, and this is a verse from Isaiah where we say, let the wicked man forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him return to Hashem.
Who will have mercy upon him, and to our God, who will forgive in abundance? Ve'oz yo'elo, and then it'll help a person, ve'sofavidu saratim mitzvot sechon, at the end of the of the words that we recite in our confession, we say, I depart from your good mitzvot, I departed from your good mitzvot and judgments, and they were not of worth to me. I made them, I made them so, ve'lo shavali, ve'at ha-tzadek ha-kol ha-bo alay,
ki emos ha-sisah, ve'anachnu shani, he says, you're righteous, we have sinned, we have fallen short of our responsibility. Ve'oz yo'mar avarti al mitzvot ha-se, al mitzvot ha-slos ha-se, avarti al chir ve'krisos, mises, based in, a person should articulate all of the different sins that he has let go of. Avarti al ha-Torah sheb'chasav, al Torah sheb'alpeh, whether it be the oral Torah or the written Torah, a person may have made light, oh, it's just the rabbis, the rabbis just made up the rules, right?
So that's also something a person has to take very seriously. Shochachti shimcha ha-goda, I forgot your great name, Hashem. Shochachti ol malchuscha ve'yiroscha, I didn't, I threw off the yoke of your kingdom and your fear. Ve'at ha-tzadek ha-kol ha-bo oleinu, ve'arminu yirisham l'keitzet misfadeh ribon ha-olamim. In the Yerushalmi, they bring a different terminology of what we should say, ribon ha-olamim, master of the universe. I have done what is evil in your eyes and I have stood in an evil way. I shall no longer do so.
Ha-ra be'einechu ve'asisi ve'derech ha-ra ha-yisi omeid, ve'shuv eini oseken, I'm not going to do this again. Ye'hirot sumofanecha me'ebir vel Hashem, elokai velokai avosai, my God and the God of my forefathers, she'tichap er li'al kol p'shai, please forgive me, grant me atonement for all of my offenses and forgive me for all of my transgressions and pardon me from all of my sins, ve'tislach li'al kol avonosai, kol oshad davar. Here's the bottom line, he says here.
Yoshu v'od me'kol chatos me'kol midos ros, a person should repent for all of his sins and all of his evil traits. Ve'sh v'hashov me'hamidos aros tzorachiz u'gadol miyod, and anyone who repents from his evil traits requires great strength. Ki kfar ha'odam morgol be'hem ve'koshol olifresh b'men, because we get into, we're creatures of habit. And we get into the same habits. Someone who's arrogant, you're telling him to change his ways, he's been arrogant his whole life.
Someone who has anger, has a bad temper, he's been having a bad temper since the day, since he was a young child. So it's very hard, a person who wants to overcome that, he's very, very praiseworthy in the eyes of G-d. Ve'al ze'nem er ya'zav rosh ha-darko v'isha'ovinim akhshavosav, let the wicked man forsake his way, and the man of sin, his thoughts. And this is a big, big accomplishment for a person to do so. So this concludes day number 174.
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