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There's a fascinating ramble I'd like to
share with you. The ramble writes that a
person should view himself during these
days of repentance, the 10 days between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as a
bananee, as somebody in between, not
perfectly righteous and not evil, just
someone in between. And he writes, if he
does
one act of mitzvah, he writes
specifically teshuvah, repentance, then
he'll be sealed in in written in book of
of the righteous and he's good to go.
And the contest wonders, why you have to
do teshuvah specifically? Why can't you
do any other mitzvah? Learn more Torah,
pray more, keep better Shabbat. Why does
it have to be specifically teshuvah?
And you The contest presents with a
fascinating story. The Talmud tells us
in Maseches Yoma there was once a rabbi,
his name was Rav. He was walking to a
butcher
and when he got there,
the butcher offended him. He told him,
"Don't ever come back to my store."
And I said, "Why? You embarrassed me in
public. Okay, maybe I had a bad day." He
went back home waiting for the butcher
to come back to ask for mechilah, for
forgiveness.
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>> And obviously the butcher didn't come.
It was already end of Yom Kippur. He
said, "If he doesn't go, you you know,
I can't go into Yom Kippur without
forgiving this guy. You know what I'll
do? I'll come back to to his butcher
shop and I'll make myself available to
him and then for sure he's going to ask
me for mechilah."
And the Rav walking back to the butcher
shop end of Yom Kippur and he meets
[music] I'm thinking it was a ba'al
bayis. He says, "Where Where's the Rav
going?" He says, "I'm going to the
butcher." He said, "Don't go, you're
going to kill him." He said, "What? No,
I'm not going to kill him." He goes back
and he's standing online. When he gets
to his turn, the Talmud says he was
holding an axe, he's chopping meat
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and he's The rabbi came to him and said,
"What are you doing here? I told you
never come back." And he was chopping
the meat and then the one the bones flew
up and slit the butcher's throat and he
fell down and died on the spot.
What what's What is this Talmud telling
us? It's very simple.
The robber was given opportunity to the
butcher to ask for forgiveness. It was
so easy to say I'm sorry. This exactly
what Hashem is doing for us. Hashem is
saying, "Ask for forgiveness. I'm so
close." The usual Hashem be him at so.
Seek out God when he's close to us. The
rest of the year, God is in in in the
palace. Right now he's coming out to us.
So, that's why the Rama means you have
to do teshuvah because that's so easy to
do. Just have to reach out to Hashem and
say, "I'm sorry. I'll try my best this
year."
