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Orot Hateshuva 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Our rats had Shiva sheet #4 Okay.
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  Let's start with something that is not going to be very nice to
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  listen to. I think we can say as a rule of
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  human understanding or self knowledge is that we don't love
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  ourselves as we should. We've spoken previously about
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  the importance of loving other people, so that's one level of
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  challenge. But what about loving ourselves?
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  If, for example, we hurt our child, or a child hurt
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  themselves, we would feel pain at their suffering.
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  We're sensitive to our children, We desperately want them to do
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  right, and so any divergent from that in their own lives causes
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  us tremendous pain and heartache.
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  What about our own lives? We can go astray.
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  We feel unable to return to our sham, and we don't necessarily
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  respond in that same level of grief and panic.
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  We don't feel the urgency to correct ourselves as we would
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  those we love or to care about ourselves sufficiently.
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  Now the danger here is like this.
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  If you're just living on an island, well, that would be less
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  danger because you'd be on your own and no one would pick up the
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  contradiction in your behavior. But says we have most should
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  Weinberger's forest. Eventually, however, our
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  children will perceive our moral compromises and challenge them,
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  and ideally, this will inspire us to take the proper steps to
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  rectify our lives. In this way, our children help
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  us become better people. Indeed, they are our best
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  educators. Our children are our best
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  educators because they force us to reevaluate ourselves and our
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  values. As long as the person has not
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  grown completely corrupted, his awareness of the mistakes he's
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  made should cause them serious and terrible pain.
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  Then he does whatever he can to correct this crookedness.
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  Now Rob Cook now goes on to a different understanding of
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  Teshuva. So we've spoken of Teshuva to
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  it, this natural Chiva, the physical body type of restoring
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  our physical health and recognizing the conscience
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  challenges of making compromises for ourselves where we wouldn't
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  make them for other people. And now comes to Shiva emunit,
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  the Teshuva of faith. He had Hayabalami Makarahama.
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  Sorry to have that. Where does this faith comes
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  from? Comes from the world of Tara,
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  the world of religion. And the Taraanda Tanak has so
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  much to say on this concept. Why?
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  Because it can only have come from Hashem.
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  The very concept that we can, as we've said previously, rewrite
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  the narrative of our lives. That's what the show is.
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  We have a story, version number one, Life one to have a story of
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  our lives of ups and downs. Version #2 is that same story
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  but through the prism of Toshiva.
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  Now those falls might have been catalysts for further growth,
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  inspiration for doing something better, or God forbid they might
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  just remain false. But Toshiva allows you to
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  rewrite the past and change the story that is your life without
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  actually going back in time. Hatora Mafti, Khale, Chave
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  Pasha, What does the Tora promise us?
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  It's a promise. It's not an idea.
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  It's not a suggestion. It promises those who want to
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  try and change Slika that they'll be forgiven.
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  This is not the knowledge that a person must know within him, his
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  inner organs, himself. Rather, this is part of our
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  traditional belief Hashem has promised through his profits.
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  If you come back to me, I will return to you Shuvu a lie.
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  You make the first move to come back first.
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  Shuva Alejan and I will then continue that journey and that
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  everything we did wrong will then be completely erased.
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  Hataltayakidvat Sibor named Kim Aladecivat Nima him.
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  The sins of the individual and the community are wiped out or
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  raised through to Shuva, the Apostle says in in Yeshiya
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  Isaiah chapter 4422. I have wiped away your sins like
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  a thick cloud and your transgressions like a cloud.
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  Return to me for I have redeemed you and finally for today had
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  Shiva Hassihlit. This last one is the the the
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  Shiva of the intellect in that which has already acquired
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  natural and faith-based to show up.
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  So anyone you've gone through these first two stages, can you
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  then move on and we'll discover what that's all about next time.
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  Have a very lovely day.