Parshas Re'eh: Premium Teshuva

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay morning welcome everyone the creation of the world you didn't know today was a significant day 30 days before the world was created so uh it's also this week's para is Para so the first thing we want to examine is we have a principle from the that the Paras of the week are connected to the of the Year even though thear only says there's specific Paras that need to be laned at specific times for example we Lan the we the before but the rest of the par there's no specific time that they have to be read never nevertheless great things are not coincidence and as the Paras come out there's always a reason why they fall at a certain time and is always the par of so what in do we see about the process of chva and about in general we know that possibly the most famous is I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me says the these words 40 the 40 days fromer in these 40 days CH is that one's heart should be close to their beloved in Chua and then the rebish is close to them also of the so here's question number one question number one is has many names has so why don't we see why don't we say all of a sudden it comes to the month of el and we use the wordi whyi hasem has many names why do we pick the name to be used and employed in reference to okay so right off the bat the first in this week's par see I plac before you today blessing and curse comes the and the says off the bat that each word in this is giving us a different message for the process of chuva I give present tense why doesn't it say I have given the answer is says the uh here you have a guy that once upon a time he made a decision that he would come late to daving and after he made that decision he's acted upon it for the last 60 years now at this point in time does he still have does he still have free choice or do we say he had free choice but now he already acted upon his free choice and now he is sort of stuck in the bad decision that he made here a guy he made a decision he's going to talk to his friends by Kar sash okay so he had free choice but at this point in time he's already habitual says the go nothing doing past performance has no bearing on future results every moment in life a person has despite previous choices despite their past uh experiences and their and what they've done nevertheless every day it's ni always puts in front of a person right and wrong and you always have the ability to make a free decision un unhindered by what one has done in the past okay next but the guy says but wait a second I feel dirty I feel sullied I'm sunken I Don't Feel clean I would like to change but uh I I feel that I'm I'm not worthy in the eyes of Hashem soem says if a person does cha they're like a whatever they've done in the past is wiped away you press the delete button you clean your soul there's no reason to feel bogged down there's no reason to feel unworthy noing every day is a new decision okay so you'll say but it's too hard it's too difficult it's the the task is very formidable the challenge is very formidable the is putting in a lot of effort to stand up against me I'm with you I'm standing behind you I'm standing on your right side I'm supporting you I'm encouraging you you have nothing to be afraid of so you say if hashem's with me that's great so I'll get up in the morning and I'll rely on the fact that hasem is with me and he'll he'll make sure I do do the right thing you know somebody once told me he went to a m i don't know which Mak he went to but the guy messed him up I know where where this guy went he said don't worry God wants you to do the right thing in this world he'll make sure that you'll do the right thing not quite a dangerous attitude who make sure you do the right thing I mean hasem gives us and he gives a person he wants us to do the right thing and if we put in the effort he'll assist us but you can't rely when you get up in the morning that bar Hashem Hashem is with me Hashem you know you just make sure I do the right thing we have to do the right thing of course help us so says you know don't get carried away here with the it's before you ultimately it's in your hands you know the story the famous story it's a it's the mus it's in all theim it's in all the reader digest you know the story it goes like this there was once uh there was once um a class they had a fantastic RBI so the rebi knew the answer to every question so they could never stump the rebi and then one day one of the kids has an EIN file they're going to take a butterfly and they're going to put it in their hands and they're going to say Reb rebba is the butterfly alive or is the butterfly dead if the rebba says the butterfly is alive they'll ever so gently squeeze their hands and kill the butterfly and if the rebi says the butterfly is dead he'll just open his hands and let the Butterfly fly out all of a sudden the the kids are learning so gak that day because they know as soon as recess comes they're going to present the rebi with the question that has no right answer finally recess comes and they come to the rebba rebba is the butterfly alive or is the butterfly dead and the rebba says I can't tell you the answer to that all I could tell you is the answer lies in your hands the answer lies in your hands so that's life says I would like you to keep your hands open I would like you to keep the butterfly alive but the answer lies in your hands it's your call it's your decision okay and finally re re re is a very important message but nobody else comes on time but everybody else is talking but nobody else does it but everybody everybody does it says I don't care what anybody does and neither should you it's irrelevant one of the most important things and attitudes and perspectives a person should have in life is it is irrelevant what anybody else does the ream is talking to you you have your responsibility and really doesn't matter what any anything that anybody else does okay so moving right along we're now going to talk about chuva in order to understand Chua let's clarify the following point point we're allow we could do Chu Chu according to is aah according to the r CH is not a Mitzvah there is no Mitzvah of CH the r says when a person does do CH should simply put according to the r CH is not a mitvah but be it as an a it's certainly something we could do and take advantage of can do ch can Gentiles do Chua so you say oh yeah nve the answer is no go cannot do chuva the truth is Chua is something that really cannot be performed in any other discipline in life imagine somebody commits a crime and the judge says we've convicted you of uh this felony and uh the guy says Ah but you didn't realize I did shua and now that I did Chua so the judge say you could do whatever you want behind the bars I don't care but you did this you did the sin you're going to pay for it there is no concept of chuva you can't repent I'm I'm happy you feel bad about it it's wonderful but it doesn't erase what you did and yet the gives us a great gift that a person regrets confesses stops and accepts not to do it again it's wiped away and yet this gift is not given to all mankind says matter one says hasem will show his countenance to you that God does not show his countenance he doesn't show favoritism the answer is if you do shows favors you I would think anyone do God will show count to you none of the nations of the world could do nve it's not cha they could suspend punishment they could push off stall punishment but to wipe away in a it cannot only je kuch that's what the Met says I don't write the book I don't write the tah that is the what the the matter says comes theim he annunciates this principle CH is for the Jewish people by the way the quotes this only do Chu the says only CH and in the sa he brings many many reasons why only and can't do one of the reasons brought from the that quotes is a beautiful reason and this is one of my favorite subjects that we speak about very often and that is there's a in this week's par you are the children of Hashem your God you are the Kinder of hm your God you ever hear maybe on the radio we're all the children of the Lord yeah it's a bunch of rubbish as they say yeah it's nonsense it's not true we are not all the children of the Lord only the Jewish people are the children of the Lord the G are not God's children they're God's creations they're God's handiwork they're created in the image ofm you say it's racist why is it racist imagine imagine if there's a kid off the street and he hears you call your son my son he says that's racist I'm also your son no sorry pal you are not my son I have my children you're a lovely guy I'll give you all the honor respect and dignity in the world we not my child so says I created all mankind you're all created my image you all deserve honor respect dignity and human rights but you're not all the children of Hashem only CLA are the children of hem if you don't like it well that's what the Torah says number nine says well there's a famous rule in the G in because the says like this King you insult the king you say hey King you know you have a long nose King uh the king says oh I know the says and the King says you know I'm working on my I'm G to overlook the guy he's not how to do that the needs to kill the guy he can't Overlook it there's no me this is not the time for working on your Midas a king cannot Overlook his honor but what if a child insults the father father could be M what if the child says you mind if I sit in your seat no problem why says beautifully says the reason why cha Works how could cha work but God's the king how could he Overlook his infraction the answer is cuz he's our father he's our Tata and and but to the nations of the world he's not their Tata to the nations of the world he's just he's just he cannot Overlook the indignity and therefore a gentile is not able to do CH so I would I would I like to say what's what what's the if you're a king if you're a king and your kid says tati could I use your scepter can I sit in your throne I think uh the father's allowed to so you see even the Mal of an not only could the Father the the fatherhood he could even be I believe that's the that um that you're allowed to the child of the king could use okay says look at number seven and the we are's children in fact writes that he quotes are called and is our father and a father who on his his is okay so this is a beautiful reason why cha works for and it does not work for the it is no coincidence then that the first para that we Lan as an introduction to is where we have this great principle enunciated because this is the fundamental principle of Chua this is the mechanism of Chua this is the engine of chuva the way as the month of L starts and a person says yes I would like to come closer I would like to repent I would like to change my ways but how is my king so the beginning the first lesson of is this allows for the process of CHA this is the engine through which chuva Works let's take it to the next step but after all we know that there are different types of Chua there are different forms of Chua some chuvas are more effective than others right all Chas are equal but some are more equal than others so what does that mean we have a famous gar a in look at number 11 shua is great that the intentional sins are like accidental sins like it says return to God cuz you only stumbled wait a second it says so why we saying so we see that when you do cha is downgrader into so here what do we see about cha here is a guy who runs the red light so he had points and 135 bucks and now that he does Chua so now he only has to pay 135 bucks and now the points are removed that's what the gamar says that Chua downgrades it from from to that not only does Chua downgrade it not only does Chua make it disappear but Chua makes it and turn into a he'll live through it he'll live through his misdeeds like it's not a question depends what type of CHA you do if you only do CH of so basically we downgrade your you did it so by doing it by by doing Chua out ofur you downgrade it to I think rber explains very simply it's like it's like this here A person sinned intentionally oh but if he would have known that he'd be put in an oven at four on 450 for an hour he wouldn't have done it so it's like he did it he didn't realize he didn't realize he didn't realize how bad the punishment's going to be so it becomes into a but if a person does CH not only does the a downgrade it more than that it disappears and it turns into a Mitzvah the concept of chuva May is really one of the most powerful Concepts in Judaism and I'm going to explain if a person just studies the gamar on the various levels of it's a very frightening uh oral because a person thinks that they go through Yumer and they do chuva oh Clean Slate clean slate no no no clean slate there's actually not so much that yum Kipper is going to do for you what do I mean because there's a hierarchy of Lavin and the T and right we're going to learn thear inside if a person violates an A so for a if you do chuva it wipes it away on the spot you don't even need yum Kipper what if a person violates a la let's say they wear shatas and then the next day they say I sinned against you I regret it I'll never do it again I'm I'll never do it again and they do chuva what happened to the a still there what do you need you also need another ingredient you need Yumer that's why one of the reasons why there's a Mitzvah to eater is because the whole year we're nervous we're nervous are we going to make it to yamer to get off all the Lavin most of the things we do wrong are Lavin and if they're Lavin sh alone doesn't take care of it now I'll tell you and a very important we could CL is it shua doesn't have the capacity to take care of it or is it that a regular chuva is not powerful enough to take care of it we need a Chua fueled by a yipper the na being but what if I do Muster that level of Chua without yum Kipper then may Tak I don't need yum Kipper so the Mii writes oh Chua could take care of anything it's just regular Chua is not strong enough to take care of alive you need a chuva with but if you could really squeeze out of your heart that level of chuva that level of CHA could take care of the lab but still CH without Yumer is not going to get rid of what about if a person has see nobody nobody has that it's very scary you know there are a lot of there's a major Corpus of material of shabas who could say they're Bucky in all of shabas who even even big even they know every little Pratt and it could be easy for a person to be in BO or something else it's a sh but it's still a sh of a of something very serious and if a person what so if a person does Chu for CH doesn't work alone nope you need and then the G goes further the says what about about no how about yipper uhuh how about no only with me wow what a what an inspiring gamar that really makes me feel warm and fuzzy right it's a frightening thing the gamar says I mean we have to know this look at number Rome did you hear there four levels of he said they really three youate you don't move until if you violate suspend so for you need and wipe it away can't suspend can't be can't wipe it away they all suspend and Misa wipes it away now what now what that's not a pleasant thought that means there literally yum Kipper works for like half the things the rest of it you know it's a frightening uh it's a frightening concept so gives us a p and that P is ch what's says the very simply very simply says in his opinion the G that says is only CH but if you do CH you're good to go it takes care of lav it takes care of it takes care of everything is wiped away with why says it's why is it m because what's the reason let's think for a moment what's the reason why Chua could wipe away in say cuz I say when you wipe it away there's nothing left but when you wipe away a you know why you need yum Kipper because you wipe away a it's downgraded to sh so you need yum Kipper to get rid of the sh and you know why when you don't work because Chu doesn't wipe away the a because it's only downgraded to a and you know why you need CU chuva can't wipe it away but which chuva can't wipe it away CH but CH not only wipes it away it turns into a Mitzvah so it turns into a Mitzvah I don't need Yumer what I need yum Kipper for I didn't do anything wrong I did a Mitzvah I ate but I did and as says in number 22 if you ate and you do it's transformed into a like a carbon P so Tak taka I don't need any other ingredients the only reason I need other ingredients because Chua didn't wipe it away completely there's still a Remnant there's still shirim but if I do Chu Maya there's no shim it's just a mitz ah you know there b bunch of questions over here you know how on yum Kipper we do something that seems pretty ridiculous imagine a guy G came into SCH and we said rabid what's wrong oh what's wrong I I killed I stole and I committed adultery and I robed many banks you know wrong wrong oh sh you know we're reading a laundry list of all the terrible things we're doing we're singing like you know like it what in the world are we doing says Theus look at number 19 very P because when we do chuva the goal is not to do chuva out of fear fact we're doing Chu out of fear we should uh we should be I don't know what's a good [Laughter] Niger yeah that's if you you do so your stealing is turned into and you know adultery is and all the is so look at number 19 look at number 14 this that CH alone doesn't help is out of fear by the way one of his saers say the same look in number 13 there's no there's no there's no so when we're embarking on doing Chua the goal is not chuv the goal is to wipe it away and to transform it into mitv listen to this one the says why do we blower twice when we're sitting and before after we want to confuse so says the first the thinks is a Mitzvah and the second one he thinks it's says rash no we don't want the we confuse the SAT so he does not instigate when he that love that not only do they do it once they do it twice and we silence his words so I don't understand here you have the SAT the guy he has The Ledger open the guy has 100 a the Satan tries reading it to hasem all of a sudden hears theer so if you're the Satan you want to start quickly getting in more more more then you hear it again and then the Satan is silenced why would the Satan be silenced if anything now that love mitz he has to work harder he has to try better no no you see what happens is that when we blow sh for the first time he figures clo is doing Chua so he works overtime he did this wrong but the moment he hears that we're blowing the sh for the second time which means we love mitz and if we love mitz then if we're doing Chua we're doing CH May then every a that he reads in our Ledger is gonna be so it silences the he's afraid to say we did because it's just working against him because every that he says we have is you know there's a big question here you have two guys one guy was an O far his whole life and then he did Chua and the other guy learned his whole life and who's greater how does that make any sense this guy is sitting his whole life and this guy's in and he does cha and he's going to be in a higher place that's right says cuz the guy who just learned his whole life you know what mitz he has but he never ate TR that it could be into eating and he never committed Gaz that it should be into supporting this guy is he's the biggest philanthropist in world history he never gave a penny to T he robbed a million dollars from the bank he did it's and he's accredited with supporting the mar he says what's the miror what's I never heard of the miror no did it's say look at number says only but the he has you never would have dreamed of you never heard of such mitz you ever heard of the Mitzvah of eating in McDonald's that Mitzvah the never heard of you ever heard there I can't there are other MIT that I can't even mention over here that thead can never put on his credit that the person who does chuva is able to amass says the month of el is the month of chva but don't say for average mediocre ordinary pedestrian Chua premium Chua is the Chua that we want we want the chu to my loved one to my beloved the kind of Chua we're hoping for is Chu the kind of Chu we that's why the first par we l in that's the mechanism of Chua Chua cannot work without the fact that we are the Beloved Children of the month of is that's the kind of CHA we're hoping for the kind of CHA where we could sing yeah okay let's take it to another level so there was a beautiful sh you heard about it the kala came from a very wealthy family multi-billionaires they had a house in Queens they had a house in the five towns in Lakewood in Tom's river in Jackson Upstate everywhere in Florida in Miami in West Palm Beach in vacation village wherever you name it in Israel they had an apartment in in in everything you can imagine yeah and um the didn't have a penny the K didn't have a penny Okay the kalus father says to the K's father look the reality is reality I'll cover it I understand we didn't marry him for the money all you need to do is you get your kid a suit just get him the suit and I have everything else covered he's coming to the wearing a suit you know he got it from a regular store I mean after the father doesn't know have that much money even though that's the only thing he had he had a regular suit he's coming to the KAS he's riding on the horse it's raining outside the horse trips the kid goes flying he falls into the mud he rips his suit he comes into the he looks like a shata this says look it's no sweat off my back to get a suit I just wanted you to do something you tried I'm going to buy a suit and but when I buy the suit it ain't going to be your suit that you got you know buy buy one get you know buy one for $73 get the second one for 42 I'm going to buy my kind of suit custom made a real suit says mitv but at the end of the day mitv are always limited by human limitation we try to do a Mitzvah but is it with full AA is it with full is it with full with the proper kavana with all the details it's limited by human shortcoming but if we do an A and then we do CH May says now I give you the Mitzvah I don't give you your kind of Mitzvah I give you my suit my customade Mitzvah and my suit is a much higher level could do great but at the end of the day it's limited by human shortcoming says but when somebody does and they do says now I give you a Mitzvah this is a Mitzvah this is a suit the likes of which you've never experienced how do we reach the Madre of cha you sayem that's for big sikim hasem is for uh very holy people and the answer is it's not so AAS hasem is something that every Jew could feel and experience and not only that it's already in your heart you just need to bring it out says if you look at number 24 the love of it cannot be a love that's dependent on anything namely that we don't love God because of the benefits he gives us that he gives us money and he makes us successful the love that a child has to a father why does a child love his father Yes the father is kind and generous and good but the child loves the father naturally it's an a it's a natural love human nature forces one compels one to love is he not your father is he not your Creator the is our father hasem is in our heart it's a matter of feeling it it's a matter of being in touch with it it's a matter of focusing on it reab Kar has such a beautiful idea you know how does RAM command us to love him imagine I told you do you like um spinach yeah you do who doesn't raise your hand if you don't love spinach this guy enthusiastically raised his hand look on you I love spinach now love it if you don't like it you don't like it yeah say how say and you shall love now you tell your kid um I don't like yle in my class love y I mean either you like him or you don't like him you know how could say love me if you love him you love him if you don't love him you don't love him but there's a rule in relationships that what that if someone loves you you will love them that's the hearts reciprocate right before we say in the what do we sayem loves you once we've establish that loves you immediately after that we could say placed that right before we when we realize we could be is that for some reason people forget about people neglect it what a person eats in the morning you know if somebody is weak or not feeling well but otherwise you you DAV before you eat breakfast right you put on yourin before you have a meal but what about says you shouldn't do anything in the morning until you could check off you know how in the morning okay I D today I put on ph today you should be able to check off today I says try to do it when you say that and if you don't have a chance at least before you go home from shakas you should be able to say I was by the way points out the is not such a high there's a difference between and I think in last week's passion in we had Theus means that the feeling of a is constantly in your heart you're always beem is even if you're only occasionally that's doesn't have to be all day long all day long is like you're in love with Hashem you cleave to hasem that's Theos is even if it's occasionally so R Miller used to say VOR Miller used to say every day you shouldn't let a day go by without saying I love you Hashem so you say you know people are going to think you're M don't worry they know already okay no but you know people going to think you're crazy so he would say he would say so take you know take out the telephone and make believe you're on the phone you pick up the phone I love you hasem and he he would say if you're embarrassed you go into a telephone booth so they they don't they don't make them anymore in London I spoke in London in London they have these big red telephone boots in every corner but in this generation Hashem G did us a very big favor something which is usually very problematic something called a phone yeah have a cell phone you can pull it out wherever you are and if you're embarrassed you could text you could send an email you know that's also another way to even though the r says that the MIT of is a very high Madre the would say you could even teach aasem to Little Children there many MRE of it and the mil the advantage of AEM is that if we're able to do CH then it's a tremendous windfall not only do we spare oursel the repercussions of our but actually I'm gonna end off with something I saw in the Who quotes the you ever he thater was written by one of the around the mag table yeah that's one quotes yeah so the story goes like this in the safe so there's a kid there there's a class trip to the beach obviously separate Beach and they're up on the top of the by the sand and everyone's playing and there's one kid that goes down near the water and there they're looking and what's this kid doing and the kid has this flag and he's waving the flag they say k what are you doing kids say I'm waving the flag and who you waving at the captain the captain there's no there's no ship kid said the ship is coming so they see off in the distance you know they could barely make out this little speck in the Horizon and the kid's waving the flag say you wav FL you can't even see the ship let alone the captain so the kid says not only do I see the ship and not only am I waving at the captain I know that the captain is waving back at me you ridiculous come play with us what are you insane so the kid said no I I'm I'm positive I know for sure the captain's waiting and how do you know the captain's waiting back at you because the captain is my father say how are we so confident how are we so sure that an how do we know how we confident that if we do our part in cha and we take a step Step Ahead that the will respond in kind Maybe not maybe we're so far gone that we'll do our thing and is not no teaches us the mechanism of CH is the fact that is our and and therefore we have the confidence that if we wave our flag at the and we take the first step forward will respond in kind and be ma chuva and if we could squeeze out a little bit cha Maya then not only will be to wipe away you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com