What Does Teshuva Mean to You? - Rabbi Efraim Stauber

[Music] okay so it's time to move on to the next step we talked about the first stage which is the inspiration and how to get excited about you but how to believe in ourselves now we need to take a look at our actual relationship with trouve itself and I need to ask you this question what did you want out of Juba what you know I remember I walked into I was a teenager I walked into a music store to buy a guitar and I was like yeah I want to buy a guitar man and he's like his question to me was well what do you want from your guitar what kind of guitar you're gonna buy has everything to do with what you're gonna use it for you're gonna just play local comes it's you know Carlebach are you gonna be shredding like slash you know you need a different end of guitar for that right so what do you want Shuba what do you want out of chewer so maybe you just want to make it to rosh hashanah you know you don't really care about God you don't really care about your spirituality none of this stuff you want to have a good year you want to be inscribed to a book of life happiness wealth health and all the good stuff right so you know you're gonna need one kind of chew it for that there's a very different kind of chew uh which is you know you want to live integrity you want to build yourself in a healthy way and the simple Association is like dieting there's many different diet no diets out there you know why are you dieting do you have to fit into that jacket before the wedding and you're like oh I fit a few years since my wedding and I don't put into the suitor anymore so I got to lose 30 pounds in 30 days and it cost $30 or your money back and basically you drink lemonade and that's it oh it's probably really bad for you long-term below kill you actually but you're gonna lose that weight you know so basically you paying your dues because you know you have to have a specific reason to lose that weight and as soon as it's over go party again so maybe that's relationship with chuhwa I really want a party I want to drive my life but you know it's time to pay the dues it's Rosh Hashanah time so help me do that but of course there's a much healthier way to diet and a healthy way to do Chuba when it said it's about a lifestyle choice you want to eat healthy foods you want to exercise and all that stuff and same thing with chuva you want to live in sync with who you really are okay so if all you really need from chuva is to succeed in Rosh Hashanah it's very simple all you got to do is wait for the panic to hit it won't hit at some point it may be a low most of us know I won't do it but you wait for shoshone itself you wait for stairs to meet you uh you know Kippur at some point you can oh my gosh I'm gonna die and you just achiever and it's easy you promise God the world God will forgive you because he's eternal and you know you can go that way by find a good time you'll be partying again if you want to speed up the process I'd recommend lots of guilt yelling at yourself beating yourself up it's really not healthy for you long-term like emotionally spiritually but it'll get the job done if you need it right now okay well chances are if you're like most people the reason why you doing chuva now you're thinking about children now watching this video is because it's so kind of a mixture of both things what got your attention to the chuhwa now yeah lol Rosh Hashanah okay but once you're here listening to this video considering chuhwa what I'd like to encourage you to do is say well okay let me do it right once I'm dieting let me do it the healthy way let me think about portion control and exercise once I'm considering Chuba even though it might have been inspired by you know simple things like guilt or just feeling bad or want to have a good year okay but now you're here now you're at the table so let's jump in and do what real do healthy true but do sustainable Shuba true that's gonna make you feel good about yourself because you know you can do it you can continue with it all year long so join us in the spiritual you to shoe a seminar send your email to the Torah Center at gmail.com and join us as we train ourselves to do sustainable Chula [Music] [Applause]