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Orot Hateshuva 6 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Our routes had Shruva share number six.
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  It's very special learning. Today it's the York site of
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  Ralph Cook, so we're learning his Torah on his York site.
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  But Cook had this incredibly optimistic vision.
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  It's a vision because you don't see it.
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  You have to visualize down the line of what the Jewish people
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  could be capable of. Story is told that and Rosh
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  Hashanah morning a group of Jews living in Israel who had drifted
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  so far from their parents and grandparents way of life, were
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  on a building site and have cook sent someone to to blow the
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  chauffeur. At least they should hear the
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  chauffeur even if they are engaged with the building.
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  Apartment blocks, whatever it might have been in Israel at the
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  time didn't give up on anybody. He saw the potential and have
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  cooked rights this level of the sugar that we spoke about last
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  in the last last learning session that it's going to
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  transform those those moments where we fell into something
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  glorious of Cook writes Zotti had to Shuvasha in a colony and
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  So what this is the this is the teshuva which the eyes of all
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  people are lifted. She, he Mukrahat, lava vicious
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  of Fallava, which must arrive and will arrive in the end this
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  ideal that we've reached the highest level, that we
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  understand what we must do and therefore we understand the
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  whole process of of life itself, is something that is our destiny
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  as individuals and as a collective people, as a Jewish
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  people. If Cook says that a person who
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  thinks that he won't reach that goal, what do you mean?
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  It's not for me. I'm just a simple person.
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  It's not my level. I'm just happy.
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  Being of such a person is mistaken.
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  Even those Jews who who died not keeping Torah another Bay in the
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  commandments, how can you say that they're going to reach that
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  level? They'll be rectified ultimately
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  throughout the long course of of the world we will get to that
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  state, which is fascinating because we've we started off
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  with natural to Shiva, our bodies, our impact on the world.
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  And then we had faith-based to Shiva, which was based on on
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  terror attacks on the Tanak, on the Rabbi's writings.
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  But he's really saying here is that this level of to Shiva that
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  that was religious to Shiva, we're saying here is that this
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  is natural for the Jew to do this.
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  It's natural to be on this highest level.
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  It's who we are in our essence. Now sometimes we need great
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  teachers to remind us of who we are.
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  We forget along the journey we're telling us we can be this
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  high, this better self. Therefore, we should not think
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  of the Torro's laws and customers being foreign to us.
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  Really. They all express and nurture
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  that which is most natural. That's what sometimes scares us.
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  I think we're scared of the natural, spiritual, connected to
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  God people that we discover ourselves being at certain
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  moments, yet it's hard to maintain that focus on that
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  level. But that's who we are.
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  And that obviously clashes with so much of the world around us
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  that people try to, you know, fit in, but it's not about
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  fitting in, It's about being true to yourself.
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  We can get overwhelmed in all of our greats and our stories.
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  When a person realizes that his good deeds reflect those of
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  those heroic characters, we read about him.
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  The Torah when he turns towards Hashem and pushes Once someone
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  you push yourself to be better, you are doing what Avraham did
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  and he turned away from idolatry, headed towards the
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  land of Israel. And each step we take to better
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  ourselves. We are doing what the greatest
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  people in our history did with his every moment of self
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  restraint, of giving up what his body urged him to do.
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  Such a person is becoming like a Yitzhak who was prepared to
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  sacrifice himself to serve Hashem so we can do it of course
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  giving us that support, that self belief.
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  So let's recap. Healthy eating and exercise
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  restore a person to life, and all of its vitality to sure
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  begins when a person seeks physical health in coordination
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  with the spiritual for what the Tara permits and forbids.
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  When we choose wrong, whether it's in the physical world or
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  the spiritual world, that leads to sickness and suffering, and
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  as long as the person hasn't broken down completely, he can
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  fix it. The person has to learn the
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  Tara's teachings, and through that we can come back to Hashem
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  and the highest level and the Shriver of the intellect.
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  Everything that a person sees brings about this journey, this
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  process of returning back not just to Hashem but really to who
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  we ought to be, who we really are, in essence, have a
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  fantastic day.