TBC - Day 31 - 'Don't lose the momentum' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so even though lul passed and uh and all the my holidays of the shay pass everything even though we think that maybe now we're done with doing chuva because we did such a hard work in the last 51 days then a lot of people think that's it i'm done with my chuva now let's start fresh but really now is when the chuva process starts because for 51 days by the way from till hosh it's 51 days that's why it's called hoshan because ho you know is a help or assist and na is non-aleph is is a numerical value of 51 51 days from uh uh and rabbi is the kalos bahu so we're saying hashem please help and assist me after 51 days of doing chuba but really the ultimate chuva starts now after we were able to get rid of the majority of our junk with all the fast that we did with all the the tachanon and the prayers and the sleekhold and yom kippur and we're able to get rid of probably 60 70 80 90 of our junk in the last 51 days if you did it right i mean listen we all gave i gave it our best shot but i can guarantee to you that a large chunk of the junk that you accumulated you got rid of it now so now we have to be smart and not to uh right away go back to where we started that's going to be the most foolish thing to do is to say okay listen i've been a good boy for the last two months now i'm going back to my old lifestyle so really now starts the process of the chuva because the load is not so heavy because you got rid of most of it now it's time to really take the momentum and start doing chuba you know in the nation of israel when they crossed the ocean when they went through the yamself then there are a few things that a lot of people are not aware of first of all the the water opened in 12 places every tribe went into one channel how can you pass three million people in a little canal so 12 places there the water open but another thing that most people don't know they didn't go from this side of the water to the other side of the water it went in a shape of a half a circle and they came out exactly where they came in what's interesting here is that if you imagine it in your mind the inner circle is very small and the outer circle has the larger diameter they all went in together and came out together one of the many miracles that was on the water but the point to take from this even though we're a few months away from parashat till with the going off out of mitsan but the point to take from that is if you go into the kriyatyamsu from tearing the ocean and you're coming up exactly from the same place where you started then what did you do it's the same thing now you walked into the month of elul and tishrei if you come out if you make a loop and you come out exactly where you started then you kind of wasted your time now for a month and a half the point that we want to take is that i already went into the ocean into the splitting of the ocean it was a job and a half was it wasn't so easy the last month and a half make sure you're not coming up on the same side of the shore that you have to go on the completely other side because now you have the opportunity to pro to declare so to say i'm a different person i'm not the same person that i was in the end of the month of av after i went through 51 days well now technically it will be 53 days but i'm talking about from oshkosh from the hell of elul kill hoshanah about 51 days okay add on that sim card so let's say 53 days i'm not the same person can be that i'm the same person that i did such hard effort and nothing happened of course i'm a different person now the trick is to maintain it so now really starts the process of chuva so i know we were talking about doing chuba from but really the process of chuva doesn't end really now it only starts we're going to continue doing chuva we're going to continue learning a lot about you but the mind frame has to be that don't mess up what you achieved in the last month and a half because you're not the same person if you go right back to where you started then you're the same person you went from this part of the side of the water you made a loop and came up on the same side nothing changed okay so for a month and a half you're on your best behavior the point is to grab the momentum and say okay now i can do chuba because i got rid of 60 70 80 90 of the junk now the load is light now i don't have so much sins to carry and therefore the abu dhabi my servants of hashem should should be much easier easier therefore we say okay now we start a brand new page after the month and a half doesn't matter how much effort you put doesn't matter right now how much hashem they gave you didn't forgive you how much he blessed you it's irrelevant because we don't know these things a lot of people are saying you know it's pretty discouraging that you're saying that's the last chance and if i messed it up the whole year is messed up well first of all there's time anybody can do at any given moment you are nothing is messed up but it's much harder to do chuva if you didn't grab the momentum of the amount of tissue but nevertheless our heads are directed forward and we're going to continue doing juva with that we're going to learn many more things about what we learned but the most important thing is the mind frame is that that i'm a different person right now from how i entered the the process now we have to maintain this level don't don't go back now even if you go back two three steps okay now don't go back now completely to where you started then you lost all your hard effort and from this point on then we just continue forward and we continue our chuva until mashiach is going to come and as it says in the talmud if we do chew up if we do right away we get redeemed so we want to hasten the redemption anyway at least if not to hasten it is to make it softer so that depends on our chuwa we continue from iran we're not settling for what we achieved we just started [Music] you