Eliminating Sin - Rabbi Shmuel Silber

tells an incredible story of Robbie Mayer and the gimmer describes in great detail rabi mayor was being harassed by a group of individuals who had no good reason for harassing him just wanted to make the life of the Great Sage incredibly difficult and Robbie Mayer had reached the end of his robe to the point that he had no way to deal with these individuals but to curse them he was literally ready to bring the full measure of divine wrath and fury upon these individuals who had made his life so miserable his wife hearing about his plan says to her husband why do that after all the verse entail him literally translated let the sin cease to exist in this world let the sins cease to exist or restore him an old enam and the wicked will be no longer and Rabbi mayor's wife made an amazing observation she said the Posse doesn't say it doesn't say let the Sinners be obliterated or cease to exist but rather it says let the sins cease to exist and what Bria was telling Rabbi mayor was instead of davening for these individuals to be cursed and for these individuals to be obliterated that you should go ahead and turn themselves around and then once it's once the sins cease to exist then the wicked will be no longer take away the sins and the wicked will be no longer and Maria teaching her husband and teaching us an incredible lesson that at the end of the day soon Ravi mayor looked at these individuals he saw individuals who are ra individuals who are evil and Maria said the truth is they aren't evil Jews there are just Jews who do evil things and that is not a question or that is not an issue of semantics but that goes to the very core of our sense of self-definition when we do something wrong do we become evil or do we become bad good people excuse me good people who sometimes do something bad Rabbi mayor thought that when people engage in bad behavior they become bad people and his wife pruria told him that's not the case when people engage in bad behavior they're good people doing bad things and so my beloved husband don't Daven for them to die don't die of them to be obliterated but instead diving for them to do children having for them to repent if you're gonna dive into God for something don't Daven for God to curse them and obliterate them to God to inspire them to ignite the spark in their souls and even the most wicked Jew could become something incredible something special something holy Dr Abraham toursky secretary in his book positive parenting rights he says when disciplining a child one should never tell a child that they're bad there's no such thing as a bad child you could tell a child what you did was bad what you did was inappropriate what you did should not be done against you not because such an act should not be committed again but the child was never bad the child is good just sometimes even good children do bad things and sometimes even good adults do bad things but this is incredibly important because sometimes in life we make mistakes and all too often when we make mistakes especially those of us who make repeated mistakes tend to look at ourselves as broken as compromised and yes even as bad or evil and Buria teaches us this most incredible lesson that even when we mess up in life and even when we make terrible mistakes even when we do bad things even when we do evil things at the end of the day we are still good people who have simply lost our way and as long as I still remain a good person at my core even if I've gotten terribly lost on the Journey of life that inner good is still intact that inner good is still present and therefore a means that I still have the ability to find my way home wishing everyone a wonderful day [Music] foreign