Because of my Torah-learning past, apparently I won’t be able to enter Hell [how do you know that having a Torah-learning past means a sinful person has no Hell?]

But I don’t want the World to Come [how do you know there is a World to Come? How do you know you deserve the World to Come? Why don’t you want the World to Come?].

And so whatever chance I have of getting it (since I sin) I want to sell, properly and legally, to the highest bidder [how do you know that helps you avoid receiving the World to Come? How do you know it helps others, that they can receive yours?].

Is this permitted according to Jewish law? [is the question whether it is permitted for you or for others? And why do you care whether you or others are sinning?].

And is it permitted for me to buy other people’s sins? [same as above—how do you know this is effective for you and for others, and why do you care whether it is permitted or forbidden?
And another thing—what do you gain from it? According to your view, you won’t have Hell anyway. Will other people’s sins help you escape the World to Come too? Aren’t your own sins enough for that? So maybe just sin more, and you won’t have to pay money for transgressions?]

[Good advice—on Yom Kippur, make sure not to fast and not to repent, so you don’t reduce the total number of sins you’ve accumulated and purchased].

With God’s help, eve of Yom Kippur, from Ashpata, Yairim

To A.—greetings,

It seems to me that you already have Hell in the finest form, “here and now,” every day and every hour—more than enough.

May it be His will that the image of your late father stand by you in all your dilemmas: “When you walk, it will guide you; when you lie down, it will watch over you; and when you awake, it will speak with you.” May this be seen and fulfilled in you: “Let your father and mother rejoice, and let her who bore you be glad.”

With blessings,
Shatz

Who is like the Sages, who rose above God Himself and know? It is from them that I draw my Torah. According to that same source (the Sages), I cannot enter Hell. If this really is effective, how would I calculate the price of my World to Come? For Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, a golden leg of a table descended from Heaven, and there is a decline of the generations, so that a small deed in our time is worth much more than in their time, and the Sages already said: “One hour of spiritual bliss in the World to Come is better than all the life of this world.”

All the most recent squabbling has been deleted (M.A.).