Shaarei Teshuva: Shaar 2:2 - The 1st Motivation For Teshuva...Tzaros

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay so we continue in the safer Shari chuva of last time we learned the introduction to char base and that is aside from all the motivations to do chuva the mirror thought and the mirror moment of solitude in contemplation of that alone should Elevate the nashama and Inspire the nashama to do chuva and now we begin the six motivations the six ideas that can inspire a person to do chuva hadera harishina the first motivation the first path sorry when a person finds themselves in a difficult situation in a pressing situation in a time of distress yahshev Alibi he should respond to his heart he should say to his heart and express the following that the reason why this is happening to me is it is only my ways and my actions that cause this to come to me in other words anytime a person experiences difficulties the proper response of a Jew should be I brought upon myself not because of negligence but because of my spiritual conduct that is visiting this upon me and his sins have brought it upon and his sins have brought it upon himself and then repent to God and God will have mercy on him are like the Torah tells us um if a person will find themselves with many evils and distresses they should say on that day it's because God is not with me these difficulties have occurred to me it seems like ravino Yana is learning that it is the that this Posse is saying that the proper response when tragedy happens is the reason why this is happening is because God is not with me I've caused Hashem to have to visit these punishments upon me and with that recognition uh think that if a person improves that the stress will stop and the the it's of notes to point out that why would Hashem have mercy on a person if the only reason he is repenting is because he's trying to alleviate his situation after all the Revenge some um told us not to do it in the first place and Hashem had no choice other than to visit these punishments upon us why then will this uh will this type of chupa be accepted the person's not really doing Chili's only doing chuva to make his life easier but nevertheless it is even under these circumstances the Torah you should see in the practices of flesh and blood in human interactions if one person sins against the other side and at a time of distress he feels he regrets the Kana a love and he humbles himself because he needs the assistance of the other person the friend upon whom you wronged will really look down upon that type of regret imagine so ruvain insults Shima and Ruben really hurts shuman's feelings legitimately ruvain wrongs Shemin the only thing is Shimon happens to be happens to be a plumber and Reuben has Plumbing issues in his house so all of a sudden Reuben comes to saying oh I'm so sorry for what I did I really feel terrible about it I shouldn't have done it by the way would you mind coming to my house to fix my pipes so shiman's natural response would be get lost that's why you regret what you did only because you need my help we find gifts why do you come to me now when it is when you were in distress but nevertheless even though when human beings interact with each other if one only regrets his wrongdoing because he's in a time of need typically a person would not accept that type of regret nevertheless it is from the great kindness does accept repentance from a difficult situation and it finds favor before Hashem God generously loves The Sinner when he returns to him on the day of rebuke um and amidst the tragedy Channel repent Israel to Hashem your God because you have stumbled I will hear your heal your waywardness I who love you generously and likewise it says God loves the one who he rebukes of as Ben yertza and like a father who favors his child meaning just like a father is appeased by his son if amidst the rebuke the father gives the son the son regrets his evil actions and he he assures him that he will improve likewise Hashem also even if a person only returns out of his distress and hard times nevertheless Hashem willingly accepts it however however is if a person does not repent that's Latif that means Hashem in his infinite kindness accepts our repentance even if it's from distress however if a person does not return to God from his distress and his from his difficulty he remains in a state of being rebuked in his illness and he does not turn to the one who rebukes him then not only has he wasted an opportunity but he actually has compounded his sin his sin is made greater and therefore now his punishment will be doubled because not only is he sinning but he's stubborn in his sin he cannot Renee he cannot pull away case in points if the king rebukes one who sinned against him and he does not take that rebuke then he's making his uh his reprimanding it will become even more harsh and his the Yoke that will be thrown upon him will be even heavier because of like it says if you do not listen to me after I had to punishment I'm gonna have to rebuke you furthermore it says further in safer AF which means they who are the wicked those who are Godless they create anger Allah they do not beseech God even that even when I afflict them they do not even cry out when I afflict them but if a person doesn't know and if a person doesn't contemplate um that his difficulties have occurred because of his sin is not God's hand that Afflicted us it's coincidence that will Inspire and that will cause the anger from God is and the sin of this group will be greater than the sin of the first group meaning the first group understands that it comes from Hashem the only thing is they don't take the lesson and they don't integrate it and they don't use it to motivate them to change so the first cut accepted that God is sending it to them but do not repent however if a person doesn't even acknowledge that this is God sent but rather they attribute it to coincidence then this group is sinning greater and they will have greater punishment [Music] therefore on the first group Allah says we are safdiliya but it says because but afterwards it says on the other group if they walk with me coldly the laissez and they don't want to listen to Mecca I will add to then punishment every later group in the parasha is more harsh than the earlier one so if not only not only do they not repent but they say it's coincidence then that is even more so in other words buy the first crew group by the calorie shine that says we are safely as for Aslam but by the next group where it says if you walk with me carry meaning if you say coincidence and you don't want to listen to me I'm going to punish you Sevenfold each Progressive group is even worse if you continue to attribute to coincidence God said I will I will remove my from you again what does it mean so even worse than not doing chuva at the very least if a person has difficulties the very basic level is to say this is Revenge from this is a visiting punishment dummy now if you don't do anything about it you compound your sin but at least it's not as bad as someone who says well you know people have difficulties in life that's just the way the world runs you know it comes around to everyone well that is the worst type of response so finishing up well what if a person After experiencing difficulty and tragedy he doesn't recognize that he's doing anything wrong and he doesn't know that he has sin in his hand they know your dad he is let's say a person After experiencing Difficulty says well you know I know God is visiting this upon me and he's trying to send me a message but I don't know what I'm supposed to do I'm a pretty good guy well I love the fast Facebook the person must investigate his actions and search his ways let us investigate our ways and search let a Searcher always and investigate however if a person hides his eyes the nyalu and he's foolish and his thoughts are LED astrayv and he's not able to change his ways and he doesn't know his actions and what his singers have performed if if a person is so foolish not to stop his bad ways he says look I didn't sin so that's even worse then his sin is very severe commissioner like the Novi Army says I will judge you because you said I didn't sinama in the past it says and it set him a fire all about meaning there was tragedy encircling him but he didn't know he didn't know why it was happening he was burned and he didn't put it to his heart that's the worst we're a person experiencing perhaps even worse then saying that the tragedy is coincidence even worse than a solar principles of tragedies coincident but my mysima I know I did a few things wrong but even worse than that is a person not acknowledging that he has deficiency and he has in the name the foolishness of man perverts his way explains the Apostle a person could be so foolish and sin and not pay attention to his might Sim and continue in them and then when he gets punished he says he gets angry against God so at the very least if the mo the most important thing to do is a person experiences tragedy now the smart thing is that when a person experiences slight difficulty you're walking down the street and you know you uh you slip a tiny bit and you know you you you strain a muscle it's a little tweak oh use that as an opportunity why did that happen to me I must be doing something wrong why wait until it's more severe when you stick your hand in your pocket and you wanted to pull out a quarter and you pull out a nickel say we might as well I love them you're punishing me I know I did a hate take the opportunity when the when the difficulty is minor but if a person experiences difficulty the best response is attributed to one sin the person doesn't attribute it to one's sin and the worst thing to do is to attribute it to coincidence and even worse than that is to say that a person didn't sin at all so in terms of order of severity the best response would be attributed to sin if you don't attribute it and not only to attribute it to sin to improve and change one ways but even if a person is not going to change one ways at least attribute it to an aveira if you're not going to attribute to an aveira even if has a strong person contributes it to happenstance at least recognize that person does duaveras and the very worst response is to deny and to say well I'm a good guy and I have never sinned and there's nothing on my resume that needs to be improved so this should be the this is the first motivation to chuva the person experiences difficulties foreign you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com