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Orot Hateshuva 3 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Our rats had shuva share #3. What's fascinating about the
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  writings of Rough Cook is that it's a bit of a paradigm shift.
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  We tended to think always we boxed to shuva in this category
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  of spiritual things, things that are all to do with a world of
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  rules and regulations set by Hashem.
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  And the rabbi has nothing to do with our bodies.
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  But actually the first stage is is healthy beings.
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  Because if we are sick then we can't achieve anything else.
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  So we've cooked rights for hare Habiru.
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  After it grows really clear, she meets Barrett's Lahadrava that
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  it becomes totally obvious, sure, but small banhagutta Hare
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  an individual through their own wrong choices.
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  A shamba whole auto dildola Haim shabalo that individual is
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  responsible for. And you recognize how simple
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  this level of sugar is because it doesn't require vast
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  intellect, doesn't require faith in Hashem.
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  If a person's body is sick, you can see that.
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  And when you when we do make certain choices that even even
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  go against the rules of the trial, we can see why that is
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  wrong. Ultimately a person has to live
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  with the ideology to be an novette Hashem to want to
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  dedicate oneself to serve Hashem.
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  But we have to live normally, and a normal life isn't
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  divorcing ourselves, detaching ourselves from the physical.
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  That's not what Rob Cooke's suggesting here.
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  We just have to be healthy in the way we do it.
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  We have to live normal lives. And a normal life could be
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  summed up by the in the expression of the Rabbis no
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  Akhla Sharmain, one that is pleasant and pleasing to God,
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  but Noah Labriot. And you act normally within
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  regular society as well. We're not looking for those who
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  detach themselves and those who just don't want to have human
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  relationships and those that don't want to eat normal food
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  have to live a normal life. But when we break that, then the
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  form of to Shiva, of return, of getting healthy again, is
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  obvious, because you can see what what it is you need to do
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  now. Medicine can only guide us to a
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  certain point. But we still don't know how to
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  avoid all the things that get us sick, or how to heal all the
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  damage that we've done to our bodies.
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  So there's still a process, and we have.
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  Cook recognizes that. Obviously, he was writing
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  decades ago, and we've made a lot of progress, but we still
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  don't know how to cure ourselves 100%.
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  But here we go into a bit more of a nuanced understanding of
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  the sugar, more profound, says Rough Cook, than the natural
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  sugar. The recognizing our bodies are
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  sick is the personal and spiritual, which he turns in
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  Hebrew as mussar clayot, the wisdom of the conscience.
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  Now Teva had never shat and or sheet huda left.
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  At Budara Kishara we meet with perfection and say good morning
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  at doverning. Hello, Kai.
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  My God. This Shamash Natata be the soul
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  that you gave me torahi. It's pure.
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  We weren't born corrupt. We weren't born with schemes in
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  our head. We were born and made perfect by
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  Hashem with purity or Kusha Simon had there.
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  When we choose to deviate from that level of perfection when we
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  make wrong choices, then it depends in Now shall I die non
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  inshat Ali gammery. If one's soul is not completely
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  corrupted, how we have hush has that this feeling, this sense
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  shall I yeshrut of being made straight and ethical and perfect
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  might even be Well then it hurts and then it hurts you and makes
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  you sad. Vomits Malgemi Kev and then you
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  just waste away. You just you're the pain is
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  terrible that you know you've corrupted yourself and then you
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  want to fix it. But the challenge here is
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  justifications. You get outside, you got and
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  you're not dressed properly and you get sick.
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  You you can't really argue with that because you can see the
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  cause and effect. When it comes to bit more to the
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  spiritual, to the level of conscience, that to the level
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  we're dealing with here, then people start making all manner
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  of excuses. We all feel pant of conscience
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  when we do something wrong. But ultimately we have to know
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  that Ashram created us. Yashar, straight, uncomplicated.
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  When we deviate from this, yes, from this straight path we have
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  chosen wrong and we are then moved to to repair what we have
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  damaged. But it's complicated because we
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  can deceive ourselves. We argue ourselves.
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  What do you mean? I should make the first step
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  that person started. I know we had a fight, but they
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  started, they were wrong. Why should I start?
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  We all start making excuses. This is why this is more
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  refined, because when it comes to musar clay out, when it comes
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  to the pangs of conscience and feeling wrong.
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  This is where we justify to ourselves, because there's no
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  overt physical symptoms. But it's more refined, more
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  spiritual, more to do with our personality.
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  And this is where we can start making excuses and get things
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  wrong. But the journey has just begun,
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  my friends. Come back tomorrow.
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  No excuses. Have a good day.