Sep 20, 2015
sell your sins
I have heard the stories, using hassidic in nature, of the person who tries to sell his soul, or his portion in the Garden of Eden, because he does not believe in it anyway. I seem to remember that someone tried to sell his soul on ebay a few years back, but ebay took the auction down once some complaints were registered. Then there is also the stories of people who tried to buy someone's mitzva, or the reward for an unusual mitzva..
And now we have this, though it seems to be less of a hassidic story and more of a crazy person...
someone is advertising the following:
do you want to get rid of your sins from the past year? for fair payment I will agree to take upon myself all the sins you committed.
He even states that he is a kosher Jew and is doing this to help save people.
The sale will be done via a legal contract. Why wait to suffer in the Next World, just call now!
1. I am impressed that most of the tags of phone numbers were taken by seemingly interested people. He must be flooded with calls.
2. He is only a kosher Jew before he buys the first set of sins. After that he is fair game just like the rest of us, as who knows what type of sins he purchased?
3. How many people is he willing to buy from?
4. How many can he take? If he takes too many, or the wrong sins from the wrong person, does he suddenly die or go into deep suffering?
5. how do we know he is a kosher Jew? does he come with some sort of hechsher as to his status?
6. I saw online a funny comment about waiting for a Groupon for this next year
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there is sh"ut literature on this. iirc the bottom line is one can't buy or sell sins and punishment (actually interesting is whether one could buy mitzvoth (e.g. support torah learner and get credit for torah learning)
ReplyDeleteof course one should look at the 10th chapter of Rambam hilchot tshuva to see why this is the wrong question!
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joel rich