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Great things are never coincidental.
And it is certainly no coincidence. And
it is of note that the president of the
United States, President Donald Trump
released his 20point Gaza peace plan. 20
points for peace in Gaza. He released it
yesterday, 3 days before Yam Kipper, the
holiest day of the year. But originally
it was 21 points and one of the points
dropped. So it's 20 points for peace. So
we see that when something significant
wants to be accomplished, you sometimes
need 20 points. Did you know that chuva
also requires 20 points? Rabinua in his
seinal work Shah Chuva compares chuva to
laundering.
Ravena writes in sh reish paresses just
like a garment that needs laundering a
little bit of laundering a little bit of
cleaning will clean the stain basically.
But the more you wash, the more you
scrub, the whiter it will get.
All chuva helps like it says
even if somebody does chuva out of
desperation but a chuva that will really
cleanse a soul
offers requires 20 points. Well to
establish peace in Gaza. The president
of the United States came up with a 20
point Gaza peace plan. Number one, Gaza
will be dradicalized terror-free zone
that does not pose a threat to its
neighbors. Number two, Gaza will be
redeveloped for the benefit of the
people who have suffered more than
enough. Number three, if both sides
agree to this proposal, and you could
read anywhere the 20 points outlined by
President Trump. But it is of note that
this came out now. Perhaps it's a
reminder that if we want to accomplish
significant inroads in our own life,
maybe we need to go above and beyond
just the regular pedestrian chuva of
stopping to sin and confessing and
regret. Because if you want to do a full
chuva that really cleanses in the shama,
you could also follow the 20 point plan
to cle clean cleanliness and purity of
soul. So it's worthwhile
in preparation for yamipper on to study
what are these 20 ingredients and that
is
of
karat is regret realizing that when a
person sins there is judgment there is
punishment and it was a bad decision
feeling regret for one what one did
number two
stopping to sin thinking how you could
put yourself in a situation where you
won't do that again. Number three is
yagin. Yagin is sorrow. It's a spiritual
feeling. Not just that what you did was
wrong and self-damaging
but it's a feeling that you were
ungrateful to the creator. It's a
spiritual feeling of sorrow. Then sarisa
showing external
actions of pain whether it's fasting
whether it's certain kind of humbled
clothing
seeva da is a certain worry meaning
worried of the repercussions of your
actions before you are able to
accomplish chuva six shame a certain
shame that you're embarrassed by what
you did it's a feeling you could try to
bring out when you say the
A certain submission and humility before
Hashem with all your heart.
Actions of humility, speaking softly,
doing things externally in a humble way.
Number nine,
trying to break one's physical desire,
curbing your physical desire, refraining
from indulgence, because that's often
what brings a person to sin. Number 10,
in the manner with which one sinned, one
should try to go out of their way to do
good in. If a person was tightfisted, to
go out of your way to be generous. in
the way that a person sins, one should
try to perform mitzvah in that way.
Number 11, to investigate and search
your whole personality and your
repertoire for any vestage of that sin.
Number 12,
to investigate and to know the severity
of the punishment that one incurs for
the sins they violated. Number 13,
which means that one should highlight
and magnify that even if they did
something small, it should loom serious
in their eyes. Number 14, confession.
Number 15, prayer to pray to Hashem to
forgive you and to help you overcome
doing this again. Number six,
says trying to correct the misdeed.
Somebody stole money to return it. If
somebody insulted someone to repair it
what doing whatever you can do to undo
that which was done. Number 17
to protect you from the repercussions of
sin to try to pursue acts of kindness
and
as a correction for your number 18
never to forget of the sin that you did.
Never to say okay it's forgotten and
it's long. No, it's always something
that you take with you. Number 19
that if that sin and the opportunity for
ever rises before you to do it again,
make sure to overcome that challenge as
a rectification for what you did. And
number 20 and the final ingredient of
chuva and the ingredient which will
offer someone really a sparkling clean
garment,
helping other people do chuva, inspiring
other people do chuva,
bringing back others who have also
stumbled in certain areas. And you know
we can make the following analogy.
Perhaps the Rabinoyena says that chuva
is analogous to laundry. And yes, if you
get something on your clothing, you
could take a little water and very often
it almost completely comes out. If you
get it on your tie though, there might
be a little bit of oil stain and you
need extra detergents. So the 20
ingredients of chuva help us really
whiten our nishama. But there's another
thing, you know, some people if they
have a special occasion, they don't
necessarily want to wear a brand new
shirt because a brand new shoot shirt,
it has those folds from the box,
sometimes they prefer to wear it once,
send it to the cleaners, and then wear
it because then it has an even fresher
look. So there's an idea
that once even if a person did not ver
but if we cleanse ourselves and we try
to use all of these various cleaning
agents and detergents and as long as we
do the basic chuva we stop sinning we
confess we regret any added ingredient
will really make your nishama sparkle.
Sometimes it will even sparkle more than
when it was brand new.
So if this 20 point Gaza peace plan is
coming out now, let's utilize it as a
reminder that the main focus of our
service at this time of the year also
needs to be chuva and chuva our great
teacher taught us is a 20point plan for
purity of soul. May we be that Hashem
bear us.
