Se alguém traz mérito para muitos, o pecado não vem por sua mão, [para que ele não esteja em Gehinnom e seus discípulos em Gan Eden]; e se alguém faz com que muitos pecem, ele não tem a oportunidade de se arrepender, [para que ele não esteja em Gan Eden e seus discípulos em Gehinnom.] Moisés era meritório e trouxe mérito para muitos [(Ele ensinou a Torá a todos de Israel)]— o mérito de muitos é atribuído a ele, como está escrito (Deuteronômio 33:21): "Ele fez a justiça do Senhor e [fez] Seus julgamentos com Israel" [ie, "Seus julgamentos que estão com Israel " — é como se ele (Moisés) os tivesse cometido.] Yeravam pecou e fez com que muitos pecassem —o pecado de muitos é atribuído a ele, como está escrito (1 Reis 15:30): "Pelos pecados de Yeravam, que ele cometeu e fez Israel cometer". [Não estar sendo escrito "pelos pecados de Yaravam e Israel" implica que tudo é atribuído a Yeravam.]
Duties of the Heart
Likewise, my brother, if one rectifies only himself, he will have a small merit. But if one rectifies himself and many other people, he will have his merit multiplied according to the merits of all the people who he rectified to G-d, as our sages said: "Whoever brings merit to the masses will not come to any sin" (Avot 5:18), and they said: "Moshe was righteous and caused the multitude to become righteous, the merit of the multitudes is attributed to him, as written 'he performed the righteousness of G-d and His judgments with Israel", and the wise man said: "But to them that rebuke shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them" (Mishlei 24:25), and "The law of truth was in his mouth - and turned many away from iniquity" (Malachi 2:6), and "those who bring merit to the multitudes will be like the stars forever and ever" (Daniel 12:3).
11. One for who repentance will be extremely hard for him: he who enticed people with a false religion that he invented and influenced them to believe in it. He sinned and caused others to sin, the more people join his false beliefs, the more his sin will increase and be multiplied over, as the sages said: "Whoever leads the masses in the right path will not come to any sin, but whoever leads the masses astray will not be able to repent for all the wrong he commits.. Yeravam ben Nevat, sinned and caused the multitude to sin, and so the sin of the masses is ascribed to him as it is written (I Kings 15:30) 'Because of the sins of Yeravam that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.' " (Avos 5:18)