The Superpower of Teshuva. שובה ישראל A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on this. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called Shua Israel. The Reb said this discourse in honor of Shabasu which that year was in Shabuva in the year 50 years ago. So again discourse is based in the verse in the prophets where it says return Jewish people to your God because you stumbled over your sins. Take for yourself words. Tell them to wipe out your sins. We're going to pay through the the sacrifices through our words. We know the the different points that are brought out in the in theic discourses of the what that it says Israel. So the question they ask is one second, we're dealing with chuva. We're dealing with returning to Hashem. So it should say Shuva Yakov Jacob returned and not Shuva is because we know Shame is that's the higher name of Yakov. The the lower name is is Yak should seemingly should have said Shuva Yakov. Why? Because the fact is Yesh where where did Yakov get the name Yel? Because he fought with with with the with the God and with the and and and with with mankind and he and he was successful. So that's that's a sign of power. And also why is he called Israel specifically Kisarisa because you actually were successful successful. However, Yakov comes from the letter of comes from the word of a heel. And the reason why he was actually called Yak because he was holding on to the heel and not only a regular heel but the heel of Esau. So seemingly again it should have said not Israel and especially like it says didn't see anything wrong with the Jewish people. However, we it does say that and also it's not more it's not understood because the verse continues on. It says that you stumbled in your sins. What is an is referring an intentional sin. Now, even when it comes to a a a sin that was done unintentionally. So we know what it says in the alterb in in the the holy letters of in the of of of the alterba and he brings from the Arizel that why does somebody sin even unintentionally even if it's a mistake had a person come to sin it comes from the fact that the animal soul is very very strong and that's why um it's actually the rashi says in the track date of that someone that s sins unintentionally you also have an atonement because the fact is there's something wrong with the animal soul. So if it's when it comes to an unintentional, it's obviously something wrong with the soul. So that doesn't apply doesn't apply to Israel. How much more so when it's talking when you do it intentionally, it's it's obviously it's much at a much lower level. So why does it say and again why doesn't it say also we have to understand the verse continues on say bring with you speech. In other words, when it says, what does that mean? You do repenting and repenting the way you're supposed to. And we know when you someone wants to repent, it's a biblical commandment to to to um to spell out to confession. Say what you sinned. So when it says shuv is also including the confession. Now even though the main main repentance is really in your heart, but the fact is confession is part of chuva. So if that's the case, why does the verse say If it's obviously obvious also we have to understand it says in other words the question is one second you already did so Hashem forgave you so why does it say cult to wipe out the sins obviously if you're doing cha he's going to forgive you also we have to understand what does it say after in other words he's he mentions over here many many levels first he says shu you're doing choua returning then it says you can go ahead and do the confession and then it says says to tell him to to wipe out the sins up to what's the highest level we're going to we're going to pray we're going to pray. So the fact is if we're doing such a high level of chuva why does it say only that we're going to atone through our speech which is in the place of sacrifices but why not the level of sacrifices itself should take us to the highest level okay so explains and he says as follows and he says a powerful idea and a and and and a foundational idea and he says as follows what is the idea of chuva what does it mean when you're saying You you're doing chuva. You're returning to Hashem. You're a sinner. What do you mean you're returning to Hashem? Because chuva has a magical power that when someone decides they want to return and I'll say it in the Hebrew, I'll translate it. It's dug. It has the power to jump to jump to go to the next level like it's explained in in like in many. And what does that mean? Only jumping but I'll say it in Hebrew. I'll translate it means when a person does chuva when a person returns to hem you have the power to jump beyond any order system uh process or level chuva has the power to totally take you off the charts and that's why because chuva is all about dug you're jumping and you skip all the lines and all the processes that's why chuva works Literally one moment and in one second you say you're doing chuva boom you're about chuva. Why is that? Because the fact is like this when you have things that are levels one level to the next level it takes time and some the higher a level is he needs more time to get there. And like for example like D always brings down a person doesn't receive and and reach the full level of comprehension of his of of his teacher until 40 years. Why is that? because since his teacher is so wise and so brilliant so it takes a lot a lot of time so that's when it comes to a process but when it comes to chuva and even though chuva is a very high level it happens in one second in one moment why because chuva is with and I'll say I'll make I'll translate with huge energy in a way of skipping no no no no systems no levels no limitations of time is and therefore is a way of you jump and there's no limitation on time and when you jump in in in when you when you repent and you literally jumping from just the opposite side in other words not only that you can't compare um to the level of elevations in holiness but the fact is you're going from you're not only going in holiness but you're going from a place of impurity the opposite of holiness holiness and you're transforming to a place of holiness. And this also applies to a regular anytime a person does retrieva and know before you did chuva you were not in a good space but in one second you cross the border from from sinning to being doing what Hashem wants and especially when a person reaches a level of chuva when it comes from a place of avaraba with a tremendous love for hashem. So then what happens is then huge magic happens. What happens then literally the thing that you did and the sin that you did that sin miraculously I don't know how it works because obviously it's it's cabalistic and it's spiritual inf infinite but the fact is when a person does cha with tremendous love aa the sin becomes actually a merit just think about it the sin becomes a merit that's means he's totally transforming from one side to the other side because initially these were sins And they was they were intentional sins which is the total opposite of being connected to Hashem. But when a person does chuva with tremendous love those sins become positive actions. And these positive actions which comes from the sin they are actually much higher than the positive actions of a sadic. So it's taking you off the charts. So what the Reb is saying is that chuva is dug. There's no limits. You're jumping. There's no no limits. and therefore goes quick and that's regular chuva says but when you do chuva with tremendous love the negative this the sins become become mitzvah and say can't get there how can sins are to transform but has the power to do that now we know the explanation of the alterb based on what it says in kazal what is the ultimate of wisdom returning and good deeds so he says says, why does it say chuva returning before the good deeds? Why is that? Because when a person does chuva, the actions that you're doing become actions that are good and they actually come full of light because the the the work of chuva affects even in our service of Hashem through learning Torah and doing mitzvah. Now since the work of chuva is done like we said you're going off the charts without any calculations. So that affects that in our serving hashem of learning terra and doing mitzvo up until the level of whatever you're doing anything that you're doing that even anything that we're doing it should be in a level of off the chart just like chuva. So when you put chuva before anything then the mitzvah become totally different the learning to becomes different all your actions become different your life becomes different and like explained at length in the discourse of the with the for and it's also explained in the previous discourse called that when a person learns to in order for to learn and to really to be like focused in you You need to have an introduction of acceptance like it says in the verse that my soul should be um like like earth like dust and through that when a person approaches learning Torah with acceptance then obviously it's a whole different learning Torah up to the point that in learning Tory itself and we know there's different levels of learning Torah. So first you need to have the level of acceptance and of of the previous level. And like we know that Zerra he would fast 100 fasts to forget the Talmudic Bobby that he studied so that he should have comprehension on the shi and the same thing also when it comes to doing stats in terms of learning ter the allowed him to go to the next level. The same thing also when it comes to doing mitzvo that you have to have you have to reach a level of off the charts with with infinite and like it says clearly in the in Torah after you should love God you with your heart with your whole soul your all might in other words not enough that the mitzvah should be done in a level of of of love and which those are love which is finite but it has to be we have to do the mitzvah in a without any limits. And this is obviously this is even higher than doing regular limits. Why? Because when you're doing a with with no limits, no calculation, that's called you're doing the will of Hashem. And like we know the teaching of the says that what does it mean that you're making the will of Hashem. So what do we see from here? That's even higher than regular mitzvo because regular mitzvo, okay, there's there's already the will and you're you're fulfilling the will. But when you when you love Hashem with your whole might, you're creating a whole new will. And this idea of has to be not only when you're doing mitzvah, but even when you're doing whatever you're going around your chores and your work and your responsibilities has to be permeated with the power of because there's another inside like tells with your with all your money which is basically everything that you're doing and this idea of with all your money is connected to with without any limits and know even in doing things, trying to earn a living or doing whatever you're doing, you have to be on the level of you love Hashem with your whole heart and with your whole soul, but also to do things without any limits, without any calculations and living off the charts. Now, when it comes to jumping off the charts, when it comes to learning Tory and doing mitzvah and doing the work, doing whatever you're doing for Hashem, which comes from the the the jumping of chuva, what does that mean? That's that's in holiness itself. There's different levels. However, in chuva itself, when a person sinned, then you're actually going from a negative space to positivea space. And up to you're going from the lowest level you're taking a zod something negative and you're going ahead and turning it to something positive. So here you see the real power of chuma. Now where do we have the power to do that? So there is the power that we have to do chuva which means again in the holiness to go from one level to the next and off the charts or in the negative to bring it to positive. Where does that come from? It comes from the fact that we are is what does it mean we're Israel? Serb explains like this. What is on one hand? And is made up of take the letters of Israel. It's the letters of Leo. On one hand, Israel means the head. And we know that the head has a connection to the body and to your feet. But the fact is no Israel is called Leroy. What does that mean? Leroy that the roy the head is lee. It's totally ble. It's totally accepting to Hashem. And like we like and and like literally um the sar that he was that that that basically you're given over um totally what you willing to do whatever whatever hashem wants you to do and when you're le when you realize my whole head is actually Hashem's head then you can jump off the charts because if it's the head that's connected your body okay you only can go so far but when you realize your head is not your head your head is actually Hashem's head then whatever Hashem wants I'm ready to do it and that's why he said Israel because the power of Shuva. You want to know how do we have the power to shuva that jumps off the shards? It's coming from Israel from the fact that Leroy should realize that our head is not ours and obviously comes from Hashem. Now since this idea every single Jewish person has and even somebody that yes sinned and sinned intentionally and like we say clearly Israel the Jewish people even though you sing even though you send Israel you're still you're still a Jewish person. In other words, even if somebody that we say that he he's considered a sinner, he he is cons. And that's why every single person has the power to do chuva. And from this level, we can even do chuva on the level of Jakob as well because the main name is Israel and that's that's who we are. And and therefore because our main power is that gives us the power to elevate even from the level of Yakov. And that's why he says we stumbled on our sins. Why? Because we know what the the teachings from from the different that just like a person has to know the things that we need that we're not doing well and fix them. A person has to know your qualities. And that's why he says kashalta. What does kashalta mean? Because it's only a mistake. It's only a mistake that happened. In other words, because for example, your foot, let's say, hit the tree or hit a rock and that's why that's why you got hurt. And the same thing also with the Jewish people. We are complete. the sins that we doing it's not intentional things happen we're human and the mistakes happen but nevertheless we need to do chuva with all the power why because we is because our head is not ours is hashem so therefore whatever level it's at we need to do tru when we return to hashem and the contrary because we have this high level that you throw therefore even a small thing will affect us even more than the level of yakov and like it says Tanya um that reference to a reference Shabbat that if somebody has um something like dirt like dirty on the clothing but if you're you're a Torah scholar it's much worse because why you're you're you're a much higher standard and like like the like when someone thinks a negative thought it's actually worse than speaking it. Why? Because it reaches you on a deeper level. Then he continues on the verse and it says take for yourself words. Why is that? Because in order to fix a mistake that you fell and something was wrong etc. It's not just enough where okay I'm accepting whatever Hashem wants but you have to actually say what you did wrong. Well you have to do the word. They have to say the words like the like the explains in his classical work that the ultimate of chuva is the the work of learning tora and doing mitzvo and like it says you're doing chuva but then your actions become become beautiful and that's why he says you have to take the words you have to take the words of mitzvah and like explains at so it's not just to do yes you have to do chuv you have to but you have to you have to learn you have to do mitzvah and all these ideas obviously on a finite level. It knows how much knows obviously to the written the the oral law um since you have to comprehend it. So obviously it's finite but even the the the written Torah and um and even though when it comes to written to Torah you don't have to full comprehending Talm you have to understand what you're saying but even when you're learning the written Torah the the Kesh the prophets it's also finite and on the contrary the finite of the written law is more than the finite of of of the oral law because the fact is in the in the written law you have the the letters you have the the the uh the vowels you have the target on top and everything has to be what very very specific and it continues on the verse and it says um what does that mean because the fact is what's the ultimate of chuva it's not just enough hashem should forgive us but the goal is that the sin the sin should become a mitzvah and that's why after it says it says what does it mean it means elevate the sin elevate it and not only he should crush the sin and should throw the sins in the sea That's one but we want to elevate it that you elevate the sin that the sin becomes something positive like explained at length in in this idea of elevating the sin that how does that happen like um that hashem is everything and he encloses everything and therefore he has the power since hashem could do anything and everything he has the power to transform the negative into positive and the verse goes on to say when a person does complete choua of Israel you affect completion in the sacrifices which comes after um sinning. In other words, what does it mean when it's not only like a a payment um for for the sacrifices? But literally senu that creates a completion in the sacrifice just the opposite because the prayer the our our lips is prayer and that's the spiritual the spiritual sacrifices which is higher actually than the physical f sacrifices up to the point that even when in the times of the temple when you brought a sacrifice literally you have to go ahead and stand there and the the Israelites would would stand there and the Levites would would do the prayers and the con did their their service and especally We know that the service was quietly with the heart and that's why he says after why because this idea of which basically means doing saying the prayers which is a much higher level of of returning to which takes you to a higher level and a higher level even higher than sacrifices. So he's saying over here that is actually higher than sacrifices up till you reach the level of the face of like it says clearly is we want to look reach the face of Hashem. In other when you do bakup, when you return to Hashem, when you do it, you can literally reach the highest level of face to face with Hashem. And when it comes to drawing down from the highest level to the lower, what does it say? You're going to see my the back, but you're not going to see the face. However, when you elevate, you literally can reach the highest levels. Now just like when it comes to serving hashem that even though the serving hashem of learning and doing mitzvah on its own it's finite but the fact is you have the component which infinite how how do you create infinite in learning mit is finite that's through doing cha and you also have the idea of jumping through cha which is higher than the than the than learning mitz off the charts and the same thing also when it comes to the reward that besides the three levels of bria ysira A in the garden of Eden which is the level of but the fact is you have the reward that you go from one level to the next which is obviously you can go to infinite levels but even these infinite levels is only a level of a of a of of a light and revelation but then you're going to bring down the essence which is higher than levels and you can even say you can't even say it's a high level higher but you're going to come to the level where you can reach the essence which is the day of shabas and that's why the verse says that we say And the afterra of Shabas Shuva that what is the avoid of Shabashuva? We know it fixes all the shabases of the old year and it affects all the shabases of the f of the of the year to come and it's explained that lent in the writings of the result that yisha in Sunday of the week of the seven days between that fixes all the first days of of the of the previous year and the same thing also the the the Mondays and the Tuesdays up until Shabbat and just like it fixes the past the previous year the same thing also The seven days of trua could actually affect change in the year in the in the year to come because we know the mitzvah of truva biblically is that a person makes a commitment he's not going back to the way before and you're not going to go do that again. In other words, a you're not the past, you want to fix the past, but you're taking upon yourself a resolution of the future. And like the Rahim says that you should make a statement that you're not going to go ahead and you're not going to continue to this path anymore. And just like when it comes to being of Hashem, we know there's definite levels of being an Hashem. For example, some people are afraid of punishment. Some people are afraid of God. Some people are afraid of the awesomeness of Hashem. up until the highest level being all which is called the dot and top but nevertheless all the levels are connected the same thing also with chuva there's the lowest level of chuva where and that which is connected obviously to the highest level of chuva up until the level where we where the spirit returns to hashem like it's explained at length in the para and that's why inva what do we what do we read for read and because When a person does chuva on Shabas chuva which affects the whole shabas of the previous year and all the shabas of the upcoming year we come to the level of which is the highest level the highest level of chuva and like the raites the Jewish people do chuva and right away we're going to be redeemed and we're going to build the third base mikdash and in the third base mdash we're going to do forem the sacrifices which are obligated to do but we're going to do it like the mitzvah the will of hashem and likeb finishes off the coming of mashia should happen the kameish very very soon and very very quickly so here you have another beautiful discourse in the rebba beautiful ideas but really the power of chuva every one of us have the power to return to hashem to jump out it happens very very quickly and we can take anything that was done wrong and becomes a positive thing let's hope and pray it happens like finish says the coming Msiah. The next class will be have a great and blessed week.