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Orot Hateshuva 7 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  All right. Tathuva Shear #7.
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  So having understood three different types of teshuva, if
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  you missed the first six classes, go back and have a
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  listen. Now the rough cook takes us on a
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  different journey. Now we're talking about the
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  speed in which this process can happen.
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  And here again, it's divided into two different categories.
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  There is sudden teshuva and there is gradual teshuva.
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  What does that mean? Well, southern Tushiva is in a
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  moment, in a flash, in a in a moment of total clarity, one is
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  moved to go through the process of Tushiva, the Pamakhat.
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  In a single moment, my curious who at Harahi recognizes the
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  evil that is his life, that Haki or shamakhat and the ugliness of
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  sin, Buneh fakhli Ishaka, and is totally transformed into a
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  different person. How does that happen?
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  Happen through a some sort of soul quality, some awareness in
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  the Nashama? It just happens.
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  What also happens in this process is that all the excuses
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  go away and you recognize not just the thing you did wrong,
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  but the entire environment in which you were living that led
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  to you being that type of person that you now want to get away
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  from. Even that was inappropriate.
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  You recognize all the symptoms, all the causes.
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  I mean, you recognize how your friends have dragged you down,
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  and you see in an instant that there's no way to justify at all
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  who you are and what you were doing.
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  Once he's experienced that bolts of lightning, says Weinberger.
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  Those justifications are meaningless to him, because he
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  knows the absolute truth. His eyes have been opened, and
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  as he looks back at his life, he sees all of its ugliness.
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  He might not yet be ready to change.
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  He might, for instance, be having a hard time getting rid
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  of the things that have dragged him down, but he knows that it's
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  spiritually unhealthy. And because this is a
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  possibility in our lives, this flash of inspiration, then what
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  might we do? We might avoid circumstances or
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  opportunities, moments that could be spiritually
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  illuminating. We might want to avoid getting
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  ourselves, as it were, into this type of spiritual quagmire or
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  trouble by avoiding exciting ourselves to matters of
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  holiness. Soulful Jews in particular know
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  that they are susceptible to this lightning bolt.
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  They know that if they can, they go to a certain Sadiq a turn,
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  attend a certain event, learn certain things that they'll be
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  on fire. With Judaism, you spend time
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  studying Tarai and Israel. It could transform your world.
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  Such people may be afraid that changing will alienate them from
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  their family and friends, so that they'll have to give up
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  what they really enjoy doing, take on new obligation, and as a
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  result they feel doomed to remain in their present state.
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  It's also possible, and this is an interesting one.
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  It's not something you can demonstrate, but this moment
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  when a person wakes up spiritually could be a legacy
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  from an ancestor who did something great, and perhaps in
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  their lifetime they didn't merit, they didn't see the
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  reward of that, of that sacrifice and the dedication.
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  But I shall keep that going and holds it holds out for them and
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  eventually down the line of their family's tree.
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  In modern times that that descendant has woken up
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  spiritually because of something that an ancestor might have
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  done, but the far more familiar is to Shiva.
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  How drag it It's that gradual process.
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  Log Rica you've Rica the Cuba. No flash of lightning has
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  entered his heart. Lita perc Mina Omec Shahra El
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  atop to transform him from the depth of bad into something
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  good. That didn't happen.
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  Ella Watt now gish Who should serekly out.
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  Hola ho metiv de Reccha. The way his thoughts operate,
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  that's so much more subtle feeling.
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  It's gradual, it grows over time.
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  It's perhaps more more natural. You can make peace with the
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  changes and the nuances and bring in different things in
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  your life. So it doesn't look like you've
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  completely flipped like it would perhaps look in the first model
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  of this sudden form of the shiver.
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  But we will continue exploring. Thought to rough cook next time.
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  Have a very lovely day.