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Shabbat Shuva | Teshuva Mei'Yir'a: The Runaway Son
Shabbat Shuva | Teshuva Mei'Yir'a: The Runaway Son, by Rav Eli Weber
Why would Chazal choose the "cynical," self-interested model of teshuva for the Shabbat before Yom Kippur?
Hoshea 14:2-10, Mikha 7: 18-20, Yoel 2: 15-27
The Haftara of Shabbat Shuva models a modest, even self-interested form of teshuva — returning to God not out of love but out of disappointment that other paths failed — and insists that this lesser teshuva is still fully accepted, the way parents unconditionally welcome home a child who returns only because he has nowhere else to go. Since teshuva mei'ahava (the…
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