Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Rambam on Teshuva - Part 12

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

we are in chapter six we've covered chapter five that deals with the ability that we have the ability to sin and as much as we have the ability to do good it is really up to us so then the rambam says in chapter 6 which is a very very important concept that is not worth skipping here we go we have lots of verses in the Torah and in the prophets that it appears to contradict this basic important principle and many people get the wrong idea why because they believe that the Goddess barahu that God decrees that a certain person has to do good a certain person has to do evil and therefore it means that the heart of a person is not in his own power here's what he says I am explaining expounding a very important principle that you should know how to understand all these so does anybody have an example of what he's talking about he's going to give an example that I'm going to use Paro Egypt were we there was a decreed that we would be slaves in Egypt we had to be enslaved correct and then the Egyptians get punished for enslaving us is that fair you're now giving me an answer first we have to understand the question it's very very important first to have a very clear understanding of the question so he says the following there's a situation that a one person or people in a particular District sin and the person that sins does it on his own

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1. 0:16we are in chapter six we've covered chapter five that deals with the ability that we…
2. 2:59punishment here that is what everyone should hope for so that when you get to the…
3. 6:13day you have three meals up to four meals and you have the you know the…
4. 9:22in this world and the next world so then it says in the second these cases…
5. 12:31I'm still not officially done with it it's a very odd story of a young man…
6. 15:42so terrified he says this idea is the key to understand why these things happen right…
7. 18:21decision you see sometimes hashems decrease are really going along for example When God says right…
8. 21:33should always look at yourself as if I and there's lots of stories of people who…
9. 24:54jealousy chasing after money people say I'm only going to come to Torah only if I'm…
10. 28:15becoming incapable of shooter right is that does the rambam play set anywhere on a scale…

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