Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Activities people don't think of as transgressions

Hi,

There are five activities for which people are not likely to repent, because people do not view them as transgressions:

1. Participating a meal when the host does not have enough for himself; people believe this is fine because they have the host's permission. This is quasi-theft;

2. Using a pauper's collateral, which the pauper needs;

3. Gazing at someone with whom sexual relations are prohibited;

4. Receiving honour by looking good in comparison with someone else, causing the other one to be disgraced and embarrassed;

5. Suspecting those who are innocent of wrongdoing.

(Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance 4:4)

גמר חתימה טובה,

Mordechai

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