Different Sins Different Sentence

0:10So the Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah, page 17a, explains that it depends on what level of Ge'enom a person is in. There are apparently seven levels of Ge'enom, as the Reshit Chochmah describes. I actually have the Reshit Chochmah with me for anyone who wants to verify this information, so they don't think I'm fabricating it. The Reshit Chochmah provides detailed explanations of what transpires in each of the Madregot, the different levels or chambers, of Ge'enom. It also outlines the types of sins associated with each chamber. you do in order to get into a certain chamber. For example, right over here, the Ma'ado Revi'i Nikrat Tita Yavin, the fourth chamber of Ge'enom, and just Baruch Hashem, it happens to be open. The fourth chamber of Ge'enom is called Tita Yavin. And there, they put people that have arrogance, people that are arrogant, people that make fun of poor people, people that shame poor people, people that

1:31Over there, they place people who are Muslim. If you go call the cops on a Jew or call the IRS on a Jew, you have a serious problem; this is known as being a moser. If you tell people to donate money to a church, you're considered a moser. An apikores is someone who is a heretic, while a kofer is also a different type of heretic. Someone who is even a kofer in Techiyat HaMeitim, meaning they don't believe in the resurrection of the dead, also goes to the fifth level. And so on and so forth. The Gemara says in Masechet Rosh Hashanah, the first six levels have a certain amount of time frame. Different sins, different sentences. Sin A has one year. Sin B has two years. Sin C has ten years, and so on and so forth. So the Gemara says certain people go and have to pay only for one year, only for two years, only for a thousand years, and so on and so forth. But when the Mashiach comes, when the Mashiach comes, they'll be taken out, they'll join the rest of Am Yisrael and the Tzaddikim, and they'll have an eternity of good. But there's a seventh level. The seventh level of Ge'enom, anyone that enters does not leave.

2:48They go in there and they never leave. The Gemara says, even after Mashiach comes, even after Techiyat HaMetim, even after the end of this world. It's an eternity of Gehenom until the Neshama is officially destroyed, which could be millions and millions of years. And the sins that a person does in order to get to the seventh level of Gehenom, Rabotai HaYekarim, are so easy to make, you wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't believe it, how people are mamash putting themselves in an eternity of Gehinnom with a simple sin. One of those sins is Chilul Shabbat. Someone that violates Shabbat on purpose and does not do Teshuva, dies without doing Teshuva for Chilul Shabbat, meaning they live their life as a Mechalel Shabbat or Mechalelet Shabbat. They go into the seventh level of Gehinnom and do not end. Mashiach, no Mashiach, they are stuck in this severe state. Resurrection of the dead and all that stuff does not apply to them. The second type of sin, it says over here, is for someone who goes into the seventh level. It's called "someone who goes into it and does not come out."

4:12And it says that there are different parts of it. One of them is boiling feces. Another part is boiling seed. Other parts are different types of fire. One person who desecrates Shabbat goes in there. If they die a Mechallel Shabbat and don't do teshuva, they have a very, very serious permanent problem. However, if they did teshuva, they don't have to worry about it. Second is someone who's wasting seed, l'chatchila, meaning they waste seed on purpose. Unfortunately, many guys today, both young and old, are addicted to it. They do it sometimes daily, sometimes multiple times daily, sometimes a few times a week. If you die without doing teshuva for wasting seed, my friend, it doesn't matter if you kept Shabbat. Gehenom starts and doesn't end for you. Rabotai, this is not a joke. When you learn about Gehenom, it can move you to tears, as it did for me when I first studied it. It's not a place you want anyone in there, including yourself or anyone you love. Wasting seed is a serious crime against Hashem. Next, it says, someone that causes other people to sin is responsible as well. A woman who walks around immodestly causes men to sin. They may end up wasting seed because of her actions.

5:27What do you think? She goes away free while he's in jail forever? No, my friends. A woman who walks around in a manner that causes other men to sin is considered responsible. This could be our sisters, our daughters, people that we know, or even our mothers who cause men to sin. There's no free lunch. It's no free lunch, meaning that a woman needs to take on modesty. Why? You don't want to go with such a crime in Shamayim (Heaven). I know it seems hard to be modest in this world because everybody else is immodest. I know it seems like it's hot and therefore if you're going to put on more layers, or at least longer clothes, it's going to be unbearable. But I promise you, it's not that hard. I promise you, it's not hotter when you wear longer sleeves. In fact, many times, it's hotter when you wear shorter sleeves. Same thing with guys that don't take advantage of the mitzvah of tzitzit because they think it's too hot. You're wasting a big opportunity to perform a mitzvah every second. You're going to need that mitzvah. You're going to need that mitzvah to protect you. So, a guy could have the excuse, "Oh, no, I'm not wearing tzitzit because it's too hot." Actually, when you wear tzitzit, you're less hot, and the reason why is because you have layers and...

6:43When you have layers, you'll actually have less heat. You'll have more wind coming into your body. I promise you it's not hotter with tzitzit. It's the opposite. It's just your Yetzer Hara telling you otherwise. So the point being, Rabbotai, is that if a person goes to the first six levels of Gehenom for whatever sins they've committed, There is a punishment. It's a very serious punishment, which you could learn from my shiur about Gehenom. I didn't even go into all the details, but I went into enough details to scare the lights out of everybody, including myself. But it ends at some point. It could be a month, it could be 5,000 years, it could be 5 million years, but at some point, it ends. Remember, time over there is not like time over here. So even if Mashiach comes, it doesn't mean that the person, let's say Mashiach comes next year. It doesn't mean that a person who goes to Gehenom tomorrow is only going to be in Gehenom for one year. It doesn't mean that. There's no time over there, meaning that Mashiach could come next year, but that person went to Gehenom for 50,000 years. Why? Because there's no concept of time there. So yes, here it's a year; over there, it can be 50,000 years. One of the places we learn from the Torah that time is different over there is in this week's parashat.

7:58This week's parashat, Parashat Shelach. It says, you said something against the land and spoke lashon hara about the land after going there for 40 days. For every one of your days, I'm going to count a year. Punishment, 40-year punishment, 40 days' trip. One-second actual sin, 40-year punishment. No one from that generation ended up in Eretz Yisrael. We already see that HaKadosh Baruch Hu's time span, HaKadosh Baruch Hu's clock, is very different than ours. One second of sin could be centuries of punishment. The point being, we have to do teshuva. Little by little, you'll do more. Little by little, you'll get better. And you'll see that this is the best thing you've ever done for yourself, not just in the next world but also in this one. If a person goes to the first six, it ends at some point, but that's not necessarily good news; it just means it ends at some point. But if they go into the seventh place because of Machti'ei HaRabim, or Motzi Zera L'Vatalah, or Chilul Shabbat, these three major crimes—there are a few others as well.

9:12But those three most common sins cause permanent problems because the perpetrators will enter Gehinnom, and they will not leave. And it's not going to be pleasant.