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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: Fear of Sin 5.13.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  What are you 2 now? Now this is a very delicate idea
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  to require as a very mature person to understand it and to
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  properly apply it. What are we talking about?
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  This idea called Yirataro Mahmoud Yatin was a very
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  elevated state. It means person is in awe of
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  God, in awe of God's power, control, might overall force
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  unbelievable existence in his world.
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  All that year in awe of it. Now we've explained came out
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  different ways. Some people get to that.
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  Notice how sham is awe through a lot of different ways to our
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  crowd. That's all of the appreciation
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  that version does. I happen to like personally, my
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  little trick to it. Awe is always following the
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  news. Usually the news is something
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  incredible how you see one string being pulled, there was
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  another string being pulled and you know what happens?
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  It's a very interesting thing if you're a conspiracy theorist,
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  which I'm not saying I am, but I entertain ideas because it's
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  fun. If you're a conspiracy theorist,
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  you start going like this. This is happening because of so
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  and so and so is doing it because so and so and someone
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  else, right? I can give you a full blown
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  conspiracy theory right now. I don't want to sound like a
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  crazy person, I'm recording, but I can give you a full blown
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  conspiracy theory as to why the war on Iran is going on, how it
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  has to do with Venezuela, how it has nothing to do with nuclear
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  bombs, give you a whole full blown theory, right?
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  And it sounds wild. And then you go and you go and
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  you go and say, and you know what?
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  And he became president at the perfect time to set this up.
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  And you know it's perfect that he was president the first time
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  when there was a break in between and then it's happening
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  now. It's set it up, right?
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  And you know what? It's perfect that certain things
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  happen in the in the interim between the presidencies to set
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  this up on an on on layer of the layer of the layer of conspiracy
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  theory and you can build the world and very possibly you
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  borderline right. The only thing you're missing is
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  there's still a beginning and that beginning is gone, which
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  means that entire theory, that entire picture entire wow the
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  web so and so knows so and so that caused this that caused
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  that all these different things that are connected.
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  FYI, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, they're all in the news.
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  They're all temporarily about to be in certain one way or another
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  before they're taking over. They all have one thing in
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  common, those three countries, and that is oil, which means
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  there's other things at Bay. You can go and you can go and
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  you can go. And by the way, this happened
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  before a meeting with China and this happened while there's a
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  war with Russia. You can continue and continue
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  going. And I have the whole picture
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  painted. The only problem is, I have no
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  idea if I'm wrong. But more than that, the entire
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  thing is orchestrated by God and all you need is one small change
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  and the entire web is completely undone.
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  All you need is Hashem pushing something in a certain area, and
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  it's all gone in a certain way. Which means that the all that a
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  person has to have when he looks at the web of Hashem's world is
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  something wild, something overwhelming.
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  When you do that, you have a sense of Almighty.
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  Now what's the goal of having this overall or slash fear or in
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  fear going together? Fear is not simple trepidation
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  or in fear means wow, that's the, you know, the simple word
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  for on fear. What is the goal with this or on
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  fear? And one of them is yerat het.
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  Hirat het means fear of sin. It doesn't mean fear of
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  punishment. Fear of sin means I don't want
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  to do the wrong thing, and I am bothered by the possibility that
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  I will do or did the wrong thing.
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  It's not just guilt. We all live.
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  We all live with guilt, and then we clean up that guilt and we
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  move on. That's not guilt.
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  Guilt's disgusting. We're talking about actual not
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  wanting to sin for sin's sake. Which means if I internalize how
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  much a shem exists, if I absorb how much God is present, if I am
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  in awe of his strength, of his might, of his power, of his
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  change in the world and a dime, have I really absorb that and
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  internalize that to its fullest extent, which by the way, it's
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  overwhelming and it's, it's all right.
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  It's overwhelming how much Hashem does the world and runs
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  the world in a powerful way. It's shocking.
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  You watch the world today. Let's just play out one thing.
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  Let's say one thing Ready. Just just you know, have this on
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  your minds. The world at large has built its
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  anti-Semitism in many ways to a great extent.
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  Wild happens to be the man who is the most powerful human being
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  on earth, is by far the most pro Jewish person, and the last many
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  many years. Both things happen at the same
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  time. They may have caused each other
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  than they related to each other. Doesn't matter.
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  The fact that you have this sort of hate and this sort of
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  protection is a shocking strange put the entire world on a scale
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  entire world on a billboard on a I'm going to try a chalkboard.
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  Chalkboard has and the semitism is building is getting stronger.
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  It's getting crazier. Chalkboard also has Israel is
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  fighting more than ever and they have more backing than ever and
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  they have more strength than ever.
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  Explain no explanation. You realize if you want to sleep
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  at night and you don't believe in person, doesn't believe in
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  God, can't sleep 'cause all you need to do do is take that man
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  out of the White House. All you need to do, you watch
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  that video by the way, of that person trying trying to run into
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  the presidential conference in the meeting.
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  You watch him run. It ain't that big.
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  He's not that off. I know it seems like crazy, like
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  they turned on him in a second and they shot him.
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  I think they got a shot between you and I.
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  I'm not saying it would have got all the way to the room, but it
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  was pretty close, right? He could have killed a few
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  people, that's for sure. You take that one, you take that
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  one, you take the other ones that we've had all that.
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  So which means if one would hazard Shalom, remove the
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  protection, the man protection 2, the world's hate, you take
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  them out, you put anyone else into the office, you're in big
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  trouble, right? So what do you do if you don't
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  believe in God, you can't sleep at night.
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  If you do believe in God, you say he has Hashem put him, I
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  shall put the next guy. This entire existence is godly.
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  That all that concept that all will allow me to say I do not
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  want to sin. How does that lead to not
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  wanting to sin? Because if you have a sense of
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  Hashem to this extent, you absorb God's existence to this
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  extent, that means I feel like, wow, look what's happening.
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  Look what he does nothing around the world good and difficult.
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  It's all I sham. It's unbelievable.
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  It's so extreme. It's all I sham.
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  It's always so extreme. And you feel that and you feel
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  it strongly. You're going to say to yourself,
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  how can I just, you know, ignore God by saying something.
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  I how can I ignore God just not going to show on the moon.
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  How can I ignore I sham by saying prayer had a thing
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  learning not a point. How can I ignore Hashem by just
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  not being the best person which he wants me to be.
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  Who is he? He's the Almighty and I know it.
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  He's not just you know the right God Almighty.
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  He is the almighty. I sense I sense his power, I
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  sense his strength, I sense his existence and therefore I sense
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  the fact that I don't want to go against.
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  So the goal of how to become a man who's already on the
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  elevated state at the end of his book, which is a person who
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  doesn't want to sin as based on a person who recognizes Hashem's
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  existence. We are together.
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  Vinyl second line over here Guinea and Yao shiya dam ya re
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  vido egg Tami. It's the concept of a person
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  fearing and worrying constantly on myself regarding his actions.
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  Penn and it are bomb. As a chemist, you don't even
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  want a small element of sin in your actions.
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  O Peng yer bum EZ de varcatan, O gadol SE en lafi gode.
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  You say to yourself, Listen, we have God and then we have me.
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  I don't want my actions to be even a small amount taking away
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  or not fitting with Hashem's greatness.
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  I don't notice Hayaka sagado shebang.
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  You know, this is a direct connection between the fear of
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  Hashem and between the fear of sin and the and the and the awe
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  of God. Kiata Khalid Bishanahan They're
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  both the same idea. Shalola sodavar naked room.
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  It's same concept. His power, his awe, his mind of
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  Hashem. I don't want to cross it.
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  Omnam have dealership in him. There is a difference between
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  simply internalizing Hashem's mic and the idea of not wanting
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  to sin. So we'll see Kirata removed to
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  Bishata Marseille or Bishata Avila Avila.
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  Let me see how guys are going to tell us that the fear of sin
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  based on this concept becomes a thought that's on your mind
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  constantly. If you absorb this message and
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  we absorb this idea of Almighty and the idea that we don't want
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  to send is something that's constantly, always behind the
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  scenes in our thoughts. I don't want to, I, I get
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  Shabbat, I'm careful, my words, I'm careful.
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  The truth is it's a lot to be careful in all these areas.
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  If I told you he gave you a list of all the areas you have to be
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  careful in, it's very hard to be careful.
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  What you aren't too bad, what you say to people, what you look
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  at, what you think, how you are in business a lot.
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  You know I read the mishmabit of that I read in.
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  English. All the things you're not
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  allowed to do. There are so many things that
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  that I do wrong. So many things that I do wrong.
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  The page after page after page of things that you're supposed
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  to do you. Know, but correct.
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  It's fine. It's fine.
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  So how do you do it? If it's so hard, how does a
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  person do it? A person comes into, he's
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  learning, he's developing, he's going to become more, more
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  observant. He's learning more.
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  And now he realizes, don't do this, Rabbi, I can't do that
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  either. Can't do that.
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  Can't do that, can't do that. How do you do what's left?
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  You feel like you can't breathe. The real answer is doesn't work
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  that way. It's not like you're plugging
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  1000 holes and you can't do any of them.
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  You step into the mode of keeping Shabbat, and along with
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  it comes the realization that Shabbat means keeping Shabbat,
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  which means avoid all the all things that ruin Shabbat.
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  It's not a matter of 1000 don't do's.
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  You will not be able to function that way.
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  You can't step into the topic, for example, as well and say,
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  oh, I'm not going to say a word. Classic story.
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  The habits. Rain, who is not a schmoozer,
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  was once schmoozing with someone for a very long time.
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  If I'm going to ask him, why are you schmoozing so long about
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  seemingly, I think it was mundane things, he said.
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  Because I want to prove people believe.
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  I'm the author of the book on So you believe if you don't keep,
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  if you keep on, you can't talk. I want to prove that you can
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  talk just good things, not about bad things.
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  I want to prove it as doable. So you deliberately showed that
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  you can schmooze just fine. How do you do this?
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  If you come into a topic, you come into the world and you say,
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  can't do this, can't do that, I can't breathe.
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  No, you can do everything just as you keep Shabbat includes
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  different ways to make Shabbat, Shabbat.
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  So if I touch my phone, it's going in Shabbat.
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  If I would have Shalom get into a car, it's going against
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  Shabbat. So my interest in keeping
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  Shabbat allows me to avoid sin. Now with today's concept, which
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  is my recognition of how powerful God is, will enforce
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  and reinforce my idea of avoiding sin.
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  It's the same theme from different angles, but there's no
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  theme that says stop holds back from sin.
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  You can't breathe that way. It's rather keep Shabbat and
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  therefore avoid sin. Recognize the power of God and
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  therefore avoid sin. That's how it works.
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  Same as what you say and what you see and what you do.
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  All the same idea. You cannot function in the way
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  that it says don't do X, You won't be able to do it.
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  Rather be yourself, but be a more elevated version of
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  yourself. And through that liftoff, you'll
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  avoid that impact. You avoid that temptation to do
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  the wrong thing. A regular person, as they grow,
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  the answer does not really get bigger.
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  Even though the garage says Sadiq Sarah is way bigger than a
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  Rashad. But his fight gets smaller.
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  Why does this fight get smaller? How does this fight get smaller?
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  There's a lot of things they can't do.
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  The more he grows, the more since he realizes he can't do.
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  Why does this fight get smaller? Because his track that he's on
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  gets clearer, clearer Shabbat clearer.
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  Watch what I say, clear watch what I see.
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  Clear, watch what I think. So because I'm on this track, I
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  don't feel like I have to plug every hole in a difficult way.
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  I rather feel like I have to continue down my Rd. on my track
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  of goodness, of greatness, of keeping Shabbat and of keeping
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  the holidays and of keeping my words.
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  And through that elevation, I can avoid the impact.
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  You know, it's like literally like elevation to work like a
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  person lifting off. While he's on the ground,
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  there's all sorts of traffic. As he lives over the air is much
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  less traffic, much less things to bump into.
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  That's an growing person. It's not like as you get
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  elevated and now you have more things you can't do, now you
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  have more issues. No.
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  You're in a better state and the issues and the sins and the
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  things you're afraid of doing become you're less prone to
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  them. Are you more afraid of sin?
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  You are, but not in a way that you're more nervous. 1000 more
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  things I have to worry about. No, rather in a way that you
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  want to continue on this road, you want to follow the track of
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  God, and you therefore do not want to cross that or ruin that
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  in any way by messing up. That's the theme.
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  So the theme is that a Jew combine the two.
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  He's recognized and absorbs the greatness of Hashem.
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  He himself, he's trying to be an elevated person through that
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  combo. He avoids the idea of doing the
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  wrong thing because anything that's wrong for him in his mind
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  is in a sense taking away from his ability to be himself,
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  taking away from his proper relationship with God and being
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  that he knows how great God is and it keeps him in a certain
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  track of doing the right thing. So next time we're facing,
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  should I eat that thing or should I eat that thing or
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  afterwards? Did I make up without God?
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  Did I not? The debate and those debates
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  both ways before and after are going to be based on I want to
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  do the other thing. I love God, I know God.
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  I want to do the right thing. Not going to be based on oh, I'm
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  scared, I'm terrified. No, I want to do the right thing
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  and I'm therefore worried that I won't be up to par on my level
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  and on God's level deserved I should be.
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  That is the track you want to be, and it keeps us in a very
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  clear mode. The recognition and therefore
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  the worry and the need to be in a great state.
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  If you know that you're playing with crystal, you're more
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  careful than you are of playing a metal.
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  Same thing over here. If you know you're dealing with
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  a great powerful God, you're much more careful than you are.
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  If you're dealing with some of that, you know you grew up
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  understanding, but not, not, not as impressive.
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  That's the difference. Stop with this.