Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Teshuvah Chapter 3

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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.

his or her monumental responsibility and opportunity at every single moment of their lives to change themselves and the whole world in one direction or the opposite direction and then the second half of the chapter is going to discuss 24 people who forfeit their part in haba and require special and extra cleansing in the world to come to be able to restore their sacred souls to their pristine divinity as we shall explore every single human being has merits and sins misha's creos via serious alave noise of sadiq somebody whose merits exceed his sins he's a sadiq he is the person we define as a righteous human being he who is sins exceed his merits russia this is the person we define as russia somebody who's half and half it's equally balanced he is defined as the banini as the intermediate person this is true about an individual i can either be a sadiq or russia or a banana but it's also true on a societal level if a society is such that the merits of all of its citizens exceed their sins this is called a righteous society a righteous country you haven't seen if their sins exceed their merits it's called a corrupt society an evil country this is true about an individual and about a society and a rambam continues and it's also true about the entire globe about all of human civilization about our entire planet so the rambam says on three levels you can look at the individual person you could look at a community a city a country a society you could look at the whole world and each of them can be either in a state which we call sadiq benin russia if you want you could compare it to a living physical organism we know especially as we get older no human physical body or no physical

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