Pirkei Avos Chapter 4 Mishna 16-18

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So, Pirkei Avos, we're in chapter 4, and we're beginning with Mishnah Tazain 16, according to my count. And the It's a very short Mishnah. The Mishnah says, Rebbi Yehudah Omer, Rebbi Yehudah says, "Have a Zahir b'Talmud." Be careful in Talmud, in learning, in study, sheshigas Talmud ola zadon. sheshigas Talmud ola zadon. Because an error in study in the translation from Sefaria, it says, "counts as deliberate sin." It has to be read as will lead to deliberate sin. So, be careful in learning because a mistake in learning can either lead to deliberate sin or will be counted as deliberate sin. What is this Mishnah telling us? So, the Midrash Shmuel in his first approach suggests something that I think is very, suggests something that I think is very, very fundamental. And he says that one has to be careful in what they learn to try not to forget it. And the reason is because aveira goreret aveira. One transgression leads to another transgression. And if perhaps at first we erred because we forgot something that we had learned, but at some point we'll reach the point but at some point we'll reach the point where we are intentional and deliberate and no longer care to to do what's correct. Um and what he's really expressing is the idea in Chazal, in the sages in the Gemara, that if a person sins once or twice, so then it becomes familiar in their eyes. They basically become desensitized to it. So, and I think this is just, you know, we look around the world and this is this

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