<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Brent Kaufman wrote:</font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">The commandment is to admonish, not to ensure the sinners repent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>It seems this is inaccurate. <span class="gmail_default"></span>W<span class="gmail_default">e are</span> command<span class="gmail_default"></span>e<span class="gmail_default">d</span> to continue to admonish until they accept or are readying to strike the admonisher. </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">[RaMBaM DeOs 6:7] One who notices a co-religionist who has sinned or has taken an unhealthy life-path, has a duty [Mitzvah] to repair – Holech BeDerech Lo Tova, Mitzvah LeHachziro LeMutav<br>Furthermore, he must continue to rebuke until the sinner is ready to strike <br><a href="https://rambam.alhatorah.org/Main/Deiot/6.1#m7e_he_he_n6" target="_blank">https://rambam.alhatorah.org/Main/Deiot/6.1#m7e_he_he_n6</a> <br>Sounds pretty much like it's our duty to ensure they do the right thing, no? <br>And to continue even though the sinner<span class="gmail_default"> clearly rejects our advances and</span> is <span class="gmail_default">V </span>angry and aggressive.<br><br>As for humiliating the sinners - as I posted earlier, the RaMBaM in Teshuvah Ch 4, 2:5 wr<span class="gmail_default"></span>ites<span class="gmail_default"> -</span> one who hates receiving rebuke loses opportunities to repent because when one is advised of his evil deeds and <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">*</span>is humiliated<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">*</span> … <a href="https://rambam.alhatorah.org/Main/Teshuvah/4.1#m7e_he,en_he_n6" target="_blank">https://rambam.alhatorah.org/Main/Teshuvah/4.1#m7e_he,en_he_n6</a></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">one presumes this means that we begin without humiliating but as the sinner refuses to make corrections we intensify our approach</span><br><br>As for “Just as it is a Mitzvah to say that which will be listened to,<br> so<span class="gmail_default"></span> it<span class="gmail_default"></span> is<span class="gmail_default"> </span>a mitzva to not to say that which will not be listened to”,</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">and “Do not reprimand a scoffer lest he hate you”, <br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"></span>Rabbenu Yona <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">[ShTeshuvah 3:196] </span>rules that th<span class="gmail_default">e</span>s<span class="gmail_default">e</span> appl<span class="gmail_default">y</span> only to the sinner who will not listen <span class="gmail_default"></span>E<span class="gmail_default">VEN</span> to his Rav or RY. If he <span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">MIGHT</span> listen to his R<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">a</span>v or Rosh Y we all must chastise even if we are certain that we will be dismissed or ignored. He writes – if it is <span class="gmail_default">[A] </span>revealed to all, <span class="gmail_default"></span>[<span class="gmail_default"></span>B] known, <span class="gmail_default"></span>[<span class="gmail_default"></span>C] tested and <span class="gmail_default"></span>[<span class="gmail_default"></span>D] analy<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">s</span>ed <span class="gmail_default">[he appears to be V determined that there is absolutely not even the slightest chance that he may listen] </span>that the sinner hates rebuke and will not listen [even] to the voice of his teachers and will not bend his ear [even] to his instructors - about this is it stated (Proverbs 9:8), “Do not rebuke a scoffer, for he will hate you.” And they said (Yevamot 55b), “Just as it is a commandment to say something that will be heard, so is it a commandment to not say something that will not be heard.” And they said (Beitzah 30a), “It is better that they be inadvertent, and not be intentional.”</font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>As for the Rama (OC 608:2) this is a most curious case. The women are eating on Erev YKippur, all the way until it starts to get dark, which is prohibited by Torah Law, as we must add MeChol, from the day which is definitely not YK, before twilight, to the Kodesh. <br>Now the Rama does say, Mutav Sheyihyu Shogegim, but only AFTER they have already been advised in a public rebuke that they must light earlier. Well in that case, they're no longer Shogegim inadvertent but deliberate sinners.<br>Perhaps the case is where the women argue they are doing as their mothers and grandmothers did and all this protesting that they must stop eating earlier is but the noise of fanatics and extremists. <br>Even so there is an obligation to rebuke once <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"></span>b<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">ut</span> only once<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">,</span> PUBLICLY <br>[does this mean every year? Have they not already heard this last year or some years back?]<br>And the duty to rebuke PRIVATELY remains upon every individual.<br>Perhaps the PUBLIC reprimand is made but once a year in order to prevent it becoming a farce and eroding the authority of the town Rabbonim.</font><br><br clear="all"></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><br>Best,<br><br>Meir G. Rabi</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">0423 207 837</font></div><div><font size="4">+61 423 207 837</font></div></div></div></div></div>
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