Teshuva: Our Vehicle of Working on Ourselves - Rabbi Ephy Greene

every year ello comes around and it's time to do chuva we hear the chauffeur we pushed it off a little bit we're saying that hashem already pushed off a little bit then we dread the salihos where we're either staying up late or waking up early and we're completely exhausted and then there's many hours of you know sitting in shoal and banging our chest telling ourselves how terrible we are but really should be a pretty straightforward process the rambam tells us it's very simple aziva stop doing a vera feel bad about it upon yourself for the future not to do it anymore you say some v-doing and boom you're ready to go you have to mean it obviously but it's not that complex so why do we have such a hard time doing it robin iona tells us famous marshall of a group of bandits that got arrested and they were put in a jail cell they came up with a plan they broke through or they tunneled out and a whole bunch of them they all escaped except for one one guy stayed in the jail cell and the guards come running they find him and they beat him up he says why are you beating me up i stayed in the jail cell they said you're fool you should have escaped when you had the chance why didn't you escape and beating him because he's such a fool he he's still a criminal [Music] what's shot with that guy why did he stay in the jail cell why didn't he run away with everybody else he's trying to follow the rules he's not a rule follower he's a criminal why do you stay in the jail cell maybe he figured you know what this place is not so bad i've got a roof over my head they're serving me three meals a day it's not too bad what do i have to do over here i don't have to work and i'm set well that's us that's us that guy has no vision that guy doesn't realize that outside of this jail cell there's a whole world [Music]