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Orot Hateshuva 9 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  All right, Tachuva shit #9. So let's finish yesterday's
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  incredible thoughts. When a person realizes that they
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  belong to something so much bigger, something that
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  transcends their own identity, and they are part of a whole
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  when we talk her karazu. As a result, says RAF Cook, from
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  this understanding, this recognition, shihiha Kara ello
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  hit bear met, which is a truth that's a godly awareness.
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  But to Shuva. Mahava comes to Shuva out of
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  love. Not out of fear, not out of
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  social pressures, not out of any extraneous thought other than,
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  may I have, out of love for Hashem.
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  But khayeah, perhaps for Khayeah, Klau comes a Chiva out
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  of love. In the life of the individual
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  and the life of the community, when a person thinks they're
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  separate, you just focus on your own mystige.
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  Your own failings and you're You're separate from everything,
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  so all you have to focus on is the mistakes that you have made.
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  When you believe, when you understand you're part of
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  something far more glorious than yourself, When you're part of an
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  ocean, not just your little crumb bobbing on the water, but
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  when you're part of that big sea of the Jewish people, there is
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  nothing bad at all. That is, to show our out of love
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  in the life of the individual and in the life of the Jewish
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  people as a whole. So let's review briefly today
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  what we've covered over the last few lessons.
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  In one moment, a person can recognize all of the wrong that
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  he has done. The friends who dragged it to
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  put you down, the places, the entertainment, any destructive
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  forces in a person's life that have disabled you spiritually,
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  they have. By that I mean you stopped
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  asking me, say every day, John El from David Hamerakh Akhatsha,
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  Ultimate Hashem. I've got a question.
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  I've got a request, Hashem. This is what I want.
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  And it occurred to me just this morning, how many of us, besides
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  asking Hashem for the give me, give me, give me request, which
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  is just part of what we think doverning us?
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  How many of us spend time on a regular basis questioning our
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  spiritual development, thinking about our growth?
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  But we even turn to our Sherman and say, hey girl, I've got a
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  question here. I want to grow spiritually.
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  I want to improve my connection to you or my connection to the
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  Jewish people, to Toria. We don't do that because maybe
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  because we're surrounded by influences that don't lead to
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  that conclusion. Once a person has that clarity,
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  though, that you're no longer able to justify the weaknesses
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  in our own lives, even if we're not ready to change it.
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  Now, this can happen in a moment.
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  It can happen to one person in a family.
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  It can happen to one person in a group of people.
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  But we have to also know that it's difficult that we can we
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  can grow, but we can fall. And that's part of a process.
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  And in gradual true of that process might take a very long
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  time. You've got to sort of find the
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  source. Why do I feel awakened to the
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  possibilities? But what's beautiful is that you
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  can be on it to show a process gradually, which means it's not
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  all going to be perfect. It's going to be a journey and
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  you're going to still have those full moments, full moments, and
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  there's growth moments, and that's part of something that's
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  authentic and real. It doesn't mean that to show
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  that you got to somehow switch yourself around from zero to 100
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  and get there in a in a single leap.
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  It's possible to describe his spiritual moments as our own
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  personal house CNI moment. When we do that, when Hashem
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  gives us that personal Harsenai moment, it creates a sense of
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  connection and sweetness and devake us cleaving to Hashem,
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  which is the energy we need to continue the journey.
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  Have a fantastic day.