Attribute #8b: No Sin Can Ever Cancel a Mitzvah | Tomer Devorah #12

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

Welcome to class number 12 in that timeless classic of Jewish ethics the palm tree of the water to me the water authored by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero passed away 1570 in Sefas the series dedicated in the merit of Binyamin Yisrael Chaim ben Chanita Yechiel Shalom Mordechai ben Malkah Nachamah Henna David Chaim ben Siporah for a complete speedy recovery and many many long happy speedy recovery and many many long happy healthy prosperous years shalom to us I'm in Kenya he Watson we're in the middle of developing the eighth attribute of divine compassion intimated by the words of the prophet Micah you have a nice day no God will suppress our sins and Moshe Cordovero began to explain to us that there is a fundamental difference fundamental there is a fundamental difference between what we call mix this and have a virus virus mix this good divine deeds and sins he says you have to understand every mix this that a person does effects Hashem in the most powerful way so to speak it rises up and touches and causes infinite delight to God himself in his essence and therefore the Gamorah says the time it doesn't condition on the test there's no reward for a mix this in this world because nothing in our world even the greatest greatest delight and the most greatest greatest delight and the most abundant goodness in this world notwithstanding its greatness and everybody should be blessed with all of it cannot capture cannot begin to capture the awesome infinite magnitude that is contained in a single mix this and there are more continues we're in the middle of the eighth attribute. O me times uh and for this reason the Ramak explains lo yikach shochad

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1. 0:06Welcome to class number 12 in that timeless classic of Jewish ethics the palm tree of…
2. 1:06virus mix this good divine deeds and sins he says you have to understand every mix…
3. 2:37nish'aru shloshim mitzvahs. So the 10 transgressions cancel out 10 mitzvahs. So you had 40, but…
4. 3:39mitzvahs, his whole life is filled with mitzvahs, but he did one sin. Daimu l'fanav k'ilu…
5. 5:11a mitzvah. No such a thing. Person did 40 mitzvahs but he did 10 sins so…
6. 6:42And the sin will cancel the mitzvah and the mitzvah will cancel the sin. He says,…
7. 7:43infinite grandeur which the mitzvah represents? It's impossible. The mitzvah is infinity. You want to sin…
8. 9:15children. It's rooted in the fact that for years and years I was preparing for this…
9. 10:17order to return, in order to repent, in order to cleanse that sin. But to say…
10. 11:49God's providence supervises and scrutinizes the ways of every single person. Every time I choose to…

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