So Much More | Rabbi Aryeh Royde

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We’re all familiar with the scale on Rosh Hashanah. We have the Mitzvos and Aveiros, and we tend to think, we hope we're at least a בינוני, half and half, and we push in another Mitzvah over עשרת ימי תשובה. But the question is, What does a בינוני mean? What does it mean ‘half and half’? We would think 700 Mitzvos, 700 Aveiros. Chazal teach us a fascinating concept. That each Mitzvah is so powerful, we get Schar for 2,000 generations, and an Aveira, sometimes it can have effect for four generations, which means it’s 500 times more. That means 499 Aveiros, one Mitzvah, you have more Mitzvos than Aveiros. It's unbelievable how many more Mitzvos we have just from each Mitzvah, how much it's worth. So we know the story of Miriam at the end of the 40 years of the Midbar. She spoke Lashon Hara with Aharon about Moshe Rabeinu, whatever that means, she got צרעת. And the entire Klal Yisroel waited for her a whole week before they traveled further.

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1. 0:05We’re all familiar with the scale on Rosh Hashanah. We have the Mitzvos and Aveiros, and…
2. 0:35which means it’s 500 times more. That means 499 Aveiros, one Mitzvah, you have more Mitzvos…
3. 1:05And Rashi says: As a zechus for when she waited for little Moishele, when he was…
4. 1:37is 20 minutes and 16 seconds. Just picture this, Mommy tells little kid Miri, Miriam, do…
5. 2:08Could you imagine what it means once closing your eyes for a moment? 500 times that…
6. 2:38The Heilige Ishbitzer says that's why the Zohar HaKadosh is so heavy when it comes to…
7. 3:08More than the punishment is the Schar.…

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