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Halakhah for Shabbat 63:10

תניא רשב"ג אומר הלכות הקדש תרומות ומעשרות הן הן גופי תורה

when he has a headache, let him imagine that he is put in irons; when he takes to bed, let him imagine that he ascended the scaffold to be punished. For whoever ascends the scaffold to be punished, if he has great advocates he is saved, but if not he is not saved. And these are man's advocates: repentance and good deeds. And even if nine hundred and ninety-nine argue for his guilt, while one argues in his favour, he is saved, for it is said, If there be with him an angel, an advocate, one among a thousand, To shew unto man what is right for him; Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job. XXXIII, 23f. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> R. Eliezer the son of R. Jose the Galilean said: Even if nine hundred and ninety-nine parts of that angel are in his disfavour and one part is in his favour, be is saved, for it is said, 'an advocate, one part in a thousand'. Our Rabbis taught: For three sins women die in childbirth. R. Eleazar said: women die young.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For these three sins. The variants involve but a change of vocalization in the Hebrew text. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> R. Aha said, As a punishment for washing their children's napkins<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'excrement'. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> on the Sabbath. Others say, Because they call the holy ark a chest. It was taught, R. Ishmael b. Eleazar said: On account of two sins 'amme ha-arez<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pl. of 'am ha-arez, q.v. Glos, ');"><sup>21</sup></span> die: because they call the holy ark a chest, and because they call a synagogue beth-'am.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'house of the people'-a contemptuous designation. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> It was taught, R. Jose said: Three death scrutineers were created in woman; others state: Three causes<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. n. 2.. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> of death: <i>niddah</i>, <i>hallah</i>, and the kindling of the [Sabbath] lights. One agrees with R. Eleazar, and the other with the Rabbi's.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Death scrutineers' connotes sins which scrutinize a woman when she is in danger, sc. at childbirth; thus this agrees with the Rabbis, 'Causes' implies avenues to premature death, thus agreeing with R. Eleazar's dictum, 'women die young'-The translation of the first follows Rashi. last.: breaches through which death enters, i.e., sins for which one is visited with death. ');"><sup>24</sup></span> It was taught, R. Simeon b. Gamaliel said: The laws of hekdesh, terumoth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. ');"><sup>25</sup></span> and tithes are indeed essential parts of the law,

Sefer HaChinukh

And the essence of confession that we received from our Rabbis and that is the custom of all of Israel to say during the Days of Repentance is, "However, we have sinned, we have been guilty, etc." And they, may their memory be blessed, said in Shabbat 32a in the chapter [entitled] Bemeh Madlikin, "One who became ill and tended toward death, they say to him, 'Confess,' as it is the way of all those executed to confess." And so [too,] in Tractate Semachot, it is taught, "One who tended toward death, they say to him, 'Confess before you do not die. Many confessed and did not die, and many who did not confess died and many that are walking in the marketplace [have] confessed, as you live from the merit of your confessing.'" If he can confess orally, he [should do so], and if not, he [should] confess in his heart. And Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban), may his memory be blessed, wrote (in Torat HaAdam, Chapter of the End, regarding confession) that he received [a tradition] from pious men and men of good deeds, that such is the confession of someone on his deathbed: "I admit in front of You, Lord, my God and God of my fathers, that my healing is in Your hands and my death is in Your hands. May it be the will in front of You that You heal me [with] a complete healing. But if I die, let my death be atonement for all of my sins and my iniquities and my rebellion that I have sinned and been iniquitous and rebelled in front of You; and let my portion be in the Garden of Eden, and make me merit the World to Come that is safeguarded for the righteous." And remember this order, to say sins first, and afterwards iniquities and afterwards rebellion - the way we have mentioned, "I have sinned, I have been iniquitous, I have rebelled (chatati, aaviti, pashaati)." As Rabbi Meir and the Sages already disagreed about this in the Gemara (Yoma 36a): Rabbi Meir reasons that it is the opposite, that we say like Moshe said, "Who carries iniquity, rebellion and sin" (Exodus 34:7). But the law is like the Sages who reason that one mentions sins first. And the reason for the matter is explained in the Gemara.
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