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0:00 dear friends I hope this message finds you well and that your shashana was uplifting and meaningful and you had the opportunity to feel a real sense of connection or perhaps a reconnection to the ribono Shalom and now we find ourselves 0:13 in the midst of a series and of course the primary responsibility we have over these days and Shiva means so many different things to different people the rambam has a whole body of law called the laws of Chauvin amazingly enough 0:28 there are 10 chapters of and there's a beautiful custom to learn one chapter of this very important body of halacha each and every day so today being the third day of a series of the 10 days of repentance I want 0:42 to share with you a thought from parakeimu from the third chapter the ramam writes in so chapter three the third discusses the following day he says the same way that when a person leaves this world however after 120 so there's 1:00 an accounting of all his or her Deeds measures up all of the midst of all of the averos because who judges us each and every year and he judges us Rosh Hashanah and it's during this in inventory takes an accounting 1:24 of all of my Deeds of my mitsos and of Maya veros of my good deeds and of my of my transgressions so that I'm right he says if someone is found to be righteous they're inscribed for life if someone is 1:40 found to be Wicked they're inscribed for death now there's much discussion about the rambam seems to be presenting what what would at least appear to be an oversimplified process of the way who runs the world and in fact derive it 1:55 one of the commentaries under armam jumps on this idea and says it's not always so clear like that sometimes the Arts don't die that was trying to create a paradigm without getting kind of into the into the weeds of what 2:09 Ram was espousing he's creating a theological construct and the theological construct is that on Rosh Hashanah we are judged and judgment occurs through taking an inventory of all of my bees looking at my avedos looking at my mid spouse at 2:23 sandik a righteous person who's someone who has a majority of mitzvos and therefore he's inscribed for life or Russia as a majority averos transgressions and then again the rambam again looking at this in a simple way is inscribed for death 2:39 and then there's a third category the habenoni the benoni is the middle the middle Road the middle right as they saying and not a Russia I guess on a very simple level a person who has an equal degree of sins 2:54 of transgressions and midsource and positive Deeds so what does the benoni do foreign is inscribed for death okay so an interesting model the benoni and I think the benoni is someone who many of us could relate to not at sadik 3:22 but Russia somewhere in the middle and if you can imagine the benoni his scales are exactly equal so the side of Mitzvah the side of Avera exactly equal so the father says suspends judgment or I should say pauses judgment for 3:39 the benoni until Yom Kippur giving him the opportunity to do chuva and if they know he does chuva he's inscribed for life he tilts the scales in a positive way and if he fails to do chuva ultimately again he's inscribed 3:51 in the other book he says I don't understand why does the benoni need to do chuva the truth is if you can imagine if the image of the benonis that the scales are equal then really all he has to do 4:07 is a Mitzvah any Mitzvah any Mitzvah just do something positive tilt the skills in your favor and that's it and that's it why does the benoni dafka have to do chuva why is that necessary and the left commissioner writes something 4:26 so beautiful he says because failure to do chuva is in and of itself a sin so the commission of another good deed is not going to be enough this is the season of children writes beforehand that although chuva is always 4:49 accepted and although chuva is always effective and impactful it is never as effective and impactful as it is during these 10 days and therefore says that I'm if a person is a failure would be sinful in and of itself tilt 5:09 the scales in a negative way simply performing another good deed that's not enough a person speak wylers the benefit could perform a whole bunch of good deeds but if he doesn't do Chiva then that lands kind of on the liability 5:23 side then that tilts the skills that skews judgment in a negative way failure to perform chuva is in and of itself a sinful Act and what an incredible idea what an incredible idea there is such a power of change that 5:40 exists in the universe right now there is such an opportunity to come close to accoladesh parachu that is unparalleled throughout the rest of the year there is a golden moment to turn ourselves to turn our lives around to whatever degree 5:52 we feel we need to there is an opportunity that has been presented to us by none other than the King of Kings to make the necessary changes we need to make in life now you don't have to turn your life 6:05 upside down and you don't have to get everything changed in a matter of a couple of days but is a commitment to a process Shiva is a commitment to affect those changes that I need to affect they may take a 6:17 little bit of time to implement but Shiva means I've bought into a process of comprehensive cathartic change Chiva means I have a vision for myself and I'm committed to that that's the Mitzvah obvious this that's the midst of this time 6:30 that's the obligation we have and failure to take advantage of this opportunity is in and of itself sinful there are different types of averas and most most times when you think about that there's a thing about things you do that 6:44 are bad right immoral things inappropriate things I steal I I do this I I I I eat non-kosh or whatever you fill in the blanks whatever avedos there's another type of Avera and I would think that the second category is 6:58 even more egregious than the first the second type of Avera is the failure to take advantage of your life opportunities that's an Aveda also that's a sin so in this season makes the power of change available to us in these 7:15 days gives us the opportunity to return back to him and almost like a spiritual amnesty an opportunity just to start again and I don't think advantage of that sinful the benoni cannot tilt the scales or change his Destiny with the 7:34 commission of Simply some other good deeds the only way for the benoni the middle of the road guy to move himself into the category of the Sadiq of the righteous individual is to Avail himself of the greatest gift of all 7:48 time the gift of chuva maybe to take advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of this gift and tonight squander the opportunity because missing opportunities in life that's sinful also we spend these days trying to repent for everything we've done 8:12 and to say we're sorry for the transgressions that we have committed because we all have let's not commit another one by missing the most beautiful opportunity of Chiva maybe to return and to rebuild to our father above wishing everyone a 8:29 wonderful day
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