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Orot Hateshuva 2 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  All right, had Shuva sheet #2. If we're going to understand the
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  power of Tashuva, then we have to first make sense of what
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  happens when we do something wrong.
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  How does doing the wrong thing? Let's use the word sin because
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  it's an easy word to use. How does that affect a person?
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  So there's a very important verse we have to learn.
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  Book of Gahalet Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, verse 29.
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  Hashem created, man. Straight created, perfect,
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  healthy, uncomplicated. How the world was created.
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  The hastidic master masters like to explain Bereshit Bara,
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  eloquem. In the beginning God created.
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  That's the literal translation. But some like to see the word
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  Bara which is created related to the word Bari.
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  So in the beginning Hashem created a healthy world.
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  Everything was how it should be. And when something goes wrong,
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  whether it's just in our bodies or some, we've transgressed the
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  law in the Torah, whatever it might be, and we'll come to
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  these ideas. We've corrupted what was once
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  perfect and take it, taken it in the direction it should never
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  have gone in. The Rabbi's explained that when
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  Hashem blessed Adam and created him and gave him a job to do, he
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  lifted him up, brought him to all the trees of the garden of
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  Eden and he said to him take a look at all that I have done,
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  how beautiful, how praiseworthy everything is and everything
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  that I created, I created for your sake.
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  This was an act of love for you. Therefore say the Rabbi.
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  God said take care not to damage or destroy my world because
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  everything started out perfect and we talked in the Gomara in
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  the Talmud that before we are born we are given some
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  instructions. One of them is be it, be
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  righteous and do not be wicked. We have to guard God's the
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  perfection that has shown created and we have to do
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  whatever we can do to maintain the health of the world and the
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  health of our bodies. Of course we understand that the
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  Torah is the rule book for how to do that in the optimal way
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  possible. It's both how to look after the
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  world and how to look after our bodies, and how to maintain our
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  spiritual relationship with Hashem.
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  Perhaps this is going to sound harsh, but it's maybe worth
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  thinking like this. A person's sinful self is a
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  forgery. It's not how it should be.
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  It's cheap, it's unnatural, it's diseased.
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  Sin distorts and sickens that which is naturally perfect.
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  It's the loss of the beauty with which mankind and the entire
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  world were originally endowed, and consequently, Trevor,
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  therefore, is not. I've got to change myself, take
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  on new rules, dress differently, act differently, explain myself
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  to my neighbors. That why do you seem so, so over
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  the top, Committed to Judaism. Sin is really just bringing us
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  back to where we were before we did the wrong thing.
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  So when we do the wrong thing, we create an imbalance, not just
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  for ourselves, not just for our religious self, but in the world
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  at large. Everything is affected, Nature
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  is affected, our bodies are affected.
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  And so to Shiva, begins with healing ourselves, our physical
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  selves. Simple example, if we get out in
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  on a cold day and we don't dress properly, then we're likely to
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  get sick. We have to dress and keep
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  ourselves warm so we understand. And that's the physical symptoms
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  of doing something foolish. And the same is true spiritually
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  as well. But there are lots of rough cook
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  that in the physical world that don't just go against our
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  physical nature but go against the teaching the rules of the
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  Torah. The Torah forbids.
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  For example, certain relationships are forbidden.
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  And we know in the physical world, if people have
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  inappropriate relationships, then, and you create children,
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  those children could be mutations that could be born
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  with the DNA, can clash, it can create diseases, et cetera, of
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  cook. And so ultimately every evil
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  practice leads to sickness and suffering.
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  And the human being, whether as an individual or as part of a
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  society, suffers terribly from this.
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  So how do we fix it? How do we cure ourselves?
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  Come back tomorrow. I told you, this is deep.
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  This is found. We have to build it slowly.
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  Have a lovely day.