The Victory of Stopping: Don’t Let Ten Mistakes Become Eleven (Rabbi Yehoshua Nissan)

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

Another part of the problem is that a lot of times the reason we're not inspired or the reason we're not into it maybe because some of the situation that's going on is maybe due to our own mess-ups, our own failures, you know, I'm not having a very good spiritual day. So, so now what? Now I should show up for the next thing? So, I want to tell you this unbelievable I said it in the name of every Aliyah I did not check it out. did not check it out. But I'm assuming that's accurate. Either way it's an incredible thought. This past week parsha we had the sota. Okay, the sota in brief is a woman who is getting too close to a fellow who is not her husband. And the husband warns her and says you got to stop that. You can't You can't be with him. You can't be You can't be with him. You can't be alone with him. Okay, so get the husband is literally just asking her to behave in an appropriate manner for a married woman and not be secluded alone with somebody that the husband is suspicious that something is going on here that is not kosher. Okay, obviously this marriage is struggling. That's not a question. This woman was warned and nonetheless she goes and she's secluded alone with this man of whom the husband is suspicious. That activates the sota protocol. The sota protocol means now this woman is taken and she is tested by drinking a very specific water to see was she actually together with that man. Obviously, we

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1. 0:00Another part of the problem is that a lot of times the reason we're not inspired…
2. 0:32did not check it out. But I'm assuming that's accurate. Either way it's an incredible thought.…
3. 1:34This woman was warned and nonetheless she goes and she's secluded alone with this man of…
4. 2:34If the woman is found guilty, then the water kills her. If, however, she is innocent,…
5. 3:04be real here. Innocent? How innocent are we talking? Innocent here just means she didn't go…
6. 4:05Eliyahu Bierman said. He said, "You're right. She did so many things wrong in this story.…
7. 5:05And even though all the situ- all the circumstances which make that so challenging might even…
8. 5:36final hilltop for Hashem. And Hashem sees that and values it and blesses her for that…
9. 6:37And we all know how hard that is to not let them lead to an 11th…
10. 7:39that just because your past decisions led you to to challenge it doesn't make them any…

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