TBC - Day 2 - 'Mercy a sign for Teshuvah' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so how can a person know that he's on the right path of juva it says that i told you already that the source for us to for to do in the torah is in the book of dwelling chapter 30 verse 3 where it says that you have to do and there's another verse it says accepts your chuva and he will give you a lot of mercy and kindness but mainly that the kalash boho when you do chuba you arouse the mercy of the kalosh so he says something very interesting he says that when we sin it builds up a lot of cruelty in our hearts if you find that you are cruel that means you have a lot of sins if you find that you are very merciful and you're very easy you feel sad for somebody or feel pity for somebody that's already your your sign that you start working on your chuva and i know many people come and say wait a minute i know many people that they're not really following the torah but they're not cruel they're not evil so first of all what you're seeing on an external part doesn't mean that that's what the internal part and i know many people look at the the whole race 80 years ago of very nice people who allowed six million jews to be butchered and murdered in front of their eyes and a whole country a whole race of supposedly very high aristocratic people saw in front of their eyes what's going on nobody cared so you can see on the outside that a person can be pretending to be nice and inside their heart deep in their heart they're cruel and evil yeah let them be butchered so if the torah comes and tells me that when a person does sins it builds cruelty in their heart and the torah knows what it's talking about so if you find cruelty within you that you're able to be you know the the the word in hebrews that you can see somebody else suffer and you don't care i'm not talking about right now going out of your way to hurt somebody so when you find a lot of cruelty in your heart no mercy to other creatures then just know that you have a lot of clean a lot of cleaning to do but when you find that you start having mercy towards people to other people even animals whatever it is then this is the the sign for you that you're starting to go in the path of the chuba so he says here your behavior is coming from the attribute of mercy then this is it means that you your chuva is starting to really kick in because a lot of people they do chew up but it doesn't really hit the home run as they say it's you know you add one take off three so the chuba is almost worthless but when do you see that you're on the right path when there's you conduct hashem mercy on you now how do you want to apply chuva in a more profound way then start arousing mercy towards other people animals situations whatever it is start building in the menu if you are too cold and cruel then means the chiva is not really penetrating to the depths of your soul so another way of approaching it is arouse and empower the mercy in you you see a situation don't ignore the situation build mercy start developing mercy towards this individual towards the situation that will allow your heart to soften up and to get rid of the cruelty and by that you're on the path of doing too [Music] [Applause] [Music] well [Music] you