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Orot Hateshuva 8 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  A rottachuva shear #8. If perchance you missed
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  yesterday, shear, go back and listen to it, because it's the
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  introduction to two different aspects of the sugar in time.
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  There's the spontaneous sugar that just grabs you, grips you
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  from nowhere, and you're transformed.
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  And then there's the gradual sugar that go back and have a
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  listen. I think many of us would love to
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  be in that first category, that lightning bolt that illuminates
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  your mind and just changes you pretty much.
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  Like would like to lose weight, and just the thought of losing
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  weight should make all those pounds just disappear.
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  But we do know. We recognize the fact that it's
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  the gradual to sugar, the one that causes the person to slowly
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  but surely conquer the things that are dragging him down and
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  allows him to change. The process is slow, needs
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  patience, but eventually he will get there.
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  And pretty much using this analogy of a diet, you go on a
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  different pathway to schedule, to schedule your overweight
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  problems and you don't see it. You don't see the day-to-day,
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  the slight change. But over time it makes a
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  difference. And you suddenly find in fact
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  your clothes are fitting you better and you're healthier,
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  etcetera, etcetera. This is what happens in gradual
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  sugar and it's not as exciting. You want it to just be.
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  I've done it. Look at me.
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  I'm a big sad Dick. I'm righteous.
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  I'm holy might want now, but it's not going to happen.
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  The person who experiences sudden to Shiva is overwhelmed
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  by a great spirit and cannot understand how his friends fail
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  to see the truth. The fact you can become quite
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  irritating if you've experienced the sudden sure because you
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  expect it from everybody else. But it's not realistic because
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  it's happened to you, because some quality of the soul, some
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  inspiration has gripped you. But it's not something one can
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  demand from every single person in gradual.
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  To Shiva, Ju remains very much connected to his past and his
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  old friends. He's trying to extricate himself
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  from the negative influences of his past.
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  Gradual trivia is a life of struggle, which also makes it
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  seem very unappealing. Who wants to struggle for life?
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  But ultimately a person engaged in the struggle reaches a place
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  of refinement and repair. And it could just be that it's
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  the length of struggle that makes it more real.
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  It makes it more permanent as a long lasting change of lifestyle
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  completely. There's a beautiful teaching not
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  from Rov cook from the cot Garobi.
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  He says Why is in the Shima? We say the word shall be al
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  Lavava on your heart. What doesn't this?
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  Why does the verse say upon your heart?
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  It should say in your heart. Sure it should penetrate.
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  The answer is that often a person's heart is too hard to
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  accept the words of Tora, to accept the words of friends who
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  were trying to help you to change.
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  They are always there, but the heart is not always able to
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  receive them. When the heart cracks then the
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  words fall in. That's what happens in the
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  gradual to Shiva. Slowly, slowly Hachuva ha
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  eleona. But Imma have Rakashira tova
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  clali. This higher level to Shiva
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  really means sudden to Shiva comes from a lightning flash.
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  It can't be explained logically because it's the result of a
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  mysterious inner spiritual process that's happening.
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  We're to try and understand it because this is so beautiful.
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  A person who's going through this process of sudden to Shiva
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  senses suddenly that they are part of something so much bigger
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  than them and how can they possibly want to be separate
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  from it? Many people who have gone
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  through A to Shiva process and have moved from not being
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  practicing or less practicing to wanting to live a full Jewish
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  life have often sensed that power.
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  And they've been on a Sharpaton. They've been on a trip away.
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  They suddenly think, you know what, I'm so isolated as me and
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  this movement. This is what this Judaism that
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  I'm being exposed to makes me feel part of some something so
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  much bigger. A person involved in something
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  should have viewed it as something great and all
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  inclusive. It's not a personal struggle,
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  but it's something you feel connected to everything.
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  And when you feel connected to everything and connected to the
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  good, ultimately that's in the world, as the Tara says, Ashram
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  finished the creation story. It's Tov my odd, It's all good.
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  Why wouldn't you want to be a part of that Tov my odd of that
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  goodness? Who wants to be outside looking
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  in on the good when you can be part of that process?
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  The person who experienced the Southern Sugar can't tolerate
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  the feelings of being a fragment torn away from a greater
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  expansive reality. Let's leave it here for today.
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  Have a very lovely day.