Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Rambam on Teshuva - Part 10

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

hi welcome to another wonderful session talking about the rambam's we are in chapter five probably the most famous part of that most people when they talk about the rambam they quote and i think it's very good for us to begin talking about this concept says the rambam resurrector of the ability to act usually refers to authority but here it doesn't mean authority it means that we are given the power the ability to act however we want we learn in this week's torah portion that we have two paths one path leading to life another path leading to the life no death death which there are some of forsham say that means non-existent which is really really hard to understand because we can always imagine a different state that we would go into even though it's very hard like people can imagine being dead like they're lying they see themselves laying in the coffin like this and they can't move and they're like hello someone coming to get me and then there's this little worm going like this and you but you can't blow because you can't breathe you're dead and it's coming like right up your people can imagine that i was like god please come and get me okay i'm out and you can imagine getting to the buffet line with the ice cream and the cakes and everything you know all the beautiful things in heaven that people some people wait for the 70 virgins so one path the derektova the good path leo sadiq to be righteous there should be a door he has the ability to do so they should and if he wanted to lean to take the path that is evil and become a rasha an evil person there he has that ability we are not pre-programmed to be either evil or

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1. 0:14hi welcome to another wonderful session talking about the rambam's we are in chapter five probably…
2. 2:59be righteous yes what does that mean what does that mean i don't know what i'm…
3. 6:07and that goes back to what the rambam said that there are three categories of people…
4. 9:21that is you know you have these calls that you have to swallow you have to…
5. 12:35all these moral qualities all of that it's up to you you can work on them…
6. 15:44right you made a decision but that is a big rabbi she's beautiful she winked at…
7. 18:55don't quiver it's not it's about becoming a full human being and understanding all the capabilities…
8. 22:06but every time you sin it creates a hole in it and when you get to…
9. 25:17and number three the vase it's a very important principle and it is the pillar of…
10. 28:36today i'll do them tomorrow i want to fine you'll get rewarded for what you chose…

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