Rambam Hilchos Teshuva, Perek 1

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What is the mitzvah of teshuva, and what does it accomplish? The Rambam counts the mitzvah asei as vidui, a spoken confession that teshuva comes before, for any aveira, asei or lav, b'meizid or b'shogeg. Going through Perek 1, we reach the Rambam's four levels of kapara.

Key points

• The Rambam counts the mitzvah of teshuva as vidui, a verbal confession before Hashem after teshuva.
• Even after paying for damage done to another, the Rambam withholds kapara until teshuva and vidui.
• The Rambam does not follow Rebbi Yehuda HaNasi, who holds Yom Kippur itself atones without teshuva.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The mitzvah of vidui in the Rambam
2. 2:22Yom Kippur as the ketz mechila
3. 4:43Vidui without teshuva
4. 8:55Teshuva for every asei and lav
5. 12:35The words of vidui
6. 19:08Korbanos, misa, malkus and damages
7. 23:52Teshuva today and a rasha's last day
8. 28:08Atzmo shel Yom Kippur and Rebbi's shita
9. 31:35The four chilukei kapara
10. 44:12Chillul Hashem and kapara at death
11. 49:59Teshuva mei'ahava and the four levels

Topics

• Teshuva
• Vidui
• Yom Kippur
• Chillul Hashem