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Orot Hateshuva 5 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Arota Truvasya #5 We learned last time about this concept of
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  Truvasiklit intellectual. To chauvin up intellect is not
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  to be understood as something cold and purely rational.
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  Ral Cook uses it in a very specific way to indicate not
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  just something academic, but a higher level of mindfulness.
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  When it's intellect, it means it's crystal clear.
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  It's being aware. This level of the sugar which is
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  the most mysterious, occurs after a person has acquired to
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  some degree the two earlier, more basic levels.
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  So natural sugar, balancing our bodies, balancing our our
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  conscience is out recognizing the faith-based to sugar, while
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  Hashem gives us the gift of the sugar.
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  And then we move higher up the ladder to a more elevated
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  understanding of the concept. Ross obviously it's a noble
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  thing to be scared of punishment to be in or of Hashem to do it
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  out of love. They're lower levels and what
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  happens now isn't that you've studied something heard at all,
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  can be inspired. But this, to Shuvasiklit, is a
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  perception in which everything that you see evokes to Shuva
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  bring you back this complete awareness, this clear perception
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  of life, says Robert Weinberger. And of the world comes after the
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  earlier levels natural to Shiva. And faith-based to Shiva have
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  made a deep impression upon a person.
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  This process is mysterious and difficult to understand, but
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  we'll have to learn how to apply it as we go through.
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  Now we're not assuming that this person has reached some
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  mysterious level of perfection, that they no longer have a an
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  evil inclination they need no longer driven by regular human
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  desires. Indeed, because now there are
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  greater expectations of him, there is more likelihood that a
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  person, the person will make a mistake.
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  Remember, the Gumara says, the greater you are, the greater
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  your Yates are. It sounds counterintuitive, but
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  the greatest people are struggling the most, which is
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  quite a smack in the belly because we think we're
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  struggling and we know we're not great.
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  So whatever struggles we have are in relative terms pretty
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  minor compared. To the struggles of the greatest
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  people, Because the greater you are, the bigger the struggle.
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  Because you need to have a balance.
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  And that balance has to be on both sides.
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  The ability to be perfect and great and the ability to mess
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  up. Otherwise there's no free
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  choice. But ultimately that's what makes
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  life worthwhile and gives life significance.
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  But the beautiful way Rob Cooke describes it is at this level of
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  the chauffeur he mile Akva are in cats.
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  It's already filled with infinite light.
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  Now light really means joy in this case.
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  So the whole process is beautiful.
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  It's it's it's full of exciting experiences.
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  Unfortunately though, to show us taking on negative connotation
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  in day-to-day Jewish living, it means we're doing something
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  wrong to many of us and if we don't change, we're going to get
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  punished and we don't know what it really means and therefore we
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  don't feel the joy. It just seems like a slog
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  process and people all trying to be inspired by different things.
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  That's beautiful Here is that if the process is joy, he mahafehet
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  et ahata im Kulamnis huyot. It transforms all sins into
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  merits. So it's true when we think about
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  the wrong that we do, we At first we might feel embarrassed
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  or hurt to feel awkward and feel negative as we scrape away the
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  different layers. But ultimately, we'll reach that
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  point when it's joyful because we'll reveal the pristine person
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  we could be. And as we said previously, we
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  realized that all those moments where it didn't go right were
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  actually opportunities that presented themselves for our
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  current success and future growth.
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  Why is that? And we'll end with this because
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  we call hash key up, because of all the mistakes we've done.
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  He might see Alimodim discovered and we find elevated teachings
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  on the call. Hash Bellot from all the
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  degradations, all that we were just humiliated.
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  I Liott Nehe There are glorious assents.
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  That's the opportunity we have at our fingertips.
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  And that's now on Rosh Khodish. Hello.
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  What? We need to try and access
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  Khodish. Tough.
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  Have a good month. Should be a month of useful
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  days. Every day is useful.
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  You can measure every day and say I did something meaningful
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  and worthwhile today As you build up to Rosh Hashanah.
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  Have a very good day.