Shaarei Teshuva: Shaar 1:1 - Teshuva is Good for YOU

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay uh good evening rabbi tonight's uh already a la fellow is the month that we foreign for the great madin and what better way is there to prepare for the yamana run for the yamadin then to learn a little bit of the shari chuva xiaochu of course is written by rabbinu yaina was a relative of the ramban and writes in the shema deuteronomy about the greatness of the sharia chuva says that the truth was so powerful it could even penetrate and break a heart of stone so even if we've become callous and our lathe has turned into a label oven shari chuva has the ability to soften the heart to enter even a heart of stone and he says that by learning imbues you with kedusha and khasidos so this is an important thing to uh important work to learn especially in the month of ello so we begin uh we're going to be examining various uh highlights of the shari tuva we'll uh begin with the beginning what better way is there to begin and since this was written by not only a great talmud but a reshine every word is calculated every single word you could be madayakin you could make an inference from you can make a diok from so we'll just read a little bit charity starts off minha toy voice from the gifts god gave us many gifts we could see we could hear we could think we could breathe our hearts pump the kidneys work the liver works the pancreas works hashem the small intestine the large intestine digestive system circulatory system respiratory system right millions of performs uh myriad and myriad of taiwanese one of the benefits is chuva it's another one of the benefits so if you were to write a list of all the good things hashem does for us no clothing we have a shirt not clothing clothing is if you thank hashem thank you for clothing it's a ingratitude clothing clothing shirt undershirt scissors pants it's good right it's a good thing to have right socks shoes shoelaces rubber soles right and one of the benefits that god gives us is chuva why now the rabbit somebody just reads this paragraph you might think ravenous being poetic but really he's delineating a whole laundry list of benefits that are contained in juba first of all from the lowliness of one's actions villanos and to escape me from the trap of your sins so we would just say that yeah god gave us chuva no these are two separate benefits number one when you sin you're low you became a little bit despicable you became a little bit disgusting your neshama is soiled you're unworthy through chuva you could elevate yourself back up in other words here you imagine a guy a criminal right he does a despicable act he steals fine so he goes to jail but he's still despicable it doesn't matter how much time he served he's still despicable he's still low no but if you do chuva you you are elevated to your previous status of greatness that's one benefit of truth in other words when you do chuva you don't stay on that despicable lowly level that one was once on that's number one but number two villanos mi pak peshaya to escape the trap of your actions what does that mean what trap is he referring to what do you think he means the trap of your ah let's say a person uh he does something bad he looks at something he's not supposed time so you think okay just don't do it again no once you give in and you do it it starts to pull you so you would think okay i did shiva and i won't be punished i have era but that is now going to still pull me to do it again no if you do chuva you eradicate the other that it doesn't pull you anymore that's also another benefit of chuba it's just it's a separate benefit yeah well you think okay you did you but you won't be punished for that although someone spoke russian her so it won't be punishable first thing but i did it so you would think next time it's going to be easier to do because it's going to draw me to do it no the chuva makes it that i'm no longer trapped by that avira says to spare your soul from destruction oh another benefit of chuba and that is that if a person doesn't do chuva you got to pay the price whether but there's destruction for for sin if you do chuva you're off the hook it's another thing so you're not despicable anymore you've elevated yourself to your previous status the average won't draw you anymore inaudible anymore i'm still uh a good person an upstanding citizen and the avira won't draw me and i won't be destroyed in islamabad but maybe hashem's upset at me still let's say um somebody does something against their uh relative so okay fine so so the relative he wants to punish you so you you ask him uh you ask him for forgiveness so he's not going to punish you anymore but he's still upset at you he's still angry no shiva makes it that three punishment is not angry at you he's still there's no anger you're shoving the shovel you're on perfect terms so in these two lines one might think robin again is being poetic no he just delineated four benefits of chuva number one it elevates you out of your despicable state number two the aveiro doesn't pull you it doesn't draw you it doesn't exert a force on you you're in the shama your nephesh will not be nishas ribasha won't be angry at you so for four benefits now let's just think for a moment why do you think rabbin wrote shari chuha what is he trying to motivate us to do to juba right so you would think that the opening paragraph is really going to be the the most compelling argument to do tuva especially you know when you start a speech you want to catch the people you wanna you would think he would start with a really compelling argument to do chuva and what is his argument it's a toy in other words if you wanna get someone to do something what's the best way to get somebody to do something you tell them how much you need it what does that guy care how much you need it the best way to get convinced on to do something is to explain to them why it's good not for you why it's good for them that's what benign is doing that's how he starts off that you should know chuva we think chuva is gonna it's it's um burdensome it's difficult but any other thing first thing just like food food is good right and clothing chuva is one of the good things hashem gave you it's not good for us it's good fresh primarily it's good for you and then you understand this is one of the great things that hashem bestowed upon us this is the this is the you know the first opening argument okay another benefit god gave us a gift he gave us a gift so it exists did god go out of his way to teach us that by the way you could see no yeah we sort of figured out on our own right food did god give us a lesson by the way uh my creations let me teach you something there's something called food no food exists in this world and you gotta figure out in the world that there's food and and you need to eat it but truva god didn't just say well there's something called shiva you know whoever no hashem went away to teach us that there's two of us it's not enough that you exist he told us there's juva he didn't just teach us he warned us to do it in other words ivanishin could have just said by the way i want you to know there's something called shiva now i learned something if that's not enough this is such an important thing and such a good benefit i'm not just going to tell you about it i'm going to warn you you have to do it to his hero that's another look how hashem is going out of his way you know imagine in order to live you have to breathe so that hashem say um by the way mankind um breathing is a good thing hashem didn't tell us there's breathing we figured out on our own and it was sort of inborn does hashem warn us you have to breathe no that's something that hashem says either you know figure it out on your own do it and if if you're not going to do it then i'm not going to have rahman is on you you figure it's not enough that it exists hashem says you have to do it to live with his hero motivation of god warned us to return to him when we sin to him the right tuva in his great goodness for yahshua in his in his straightness in his uprightness from because god knows how difficult our yet sahara is like deposit says hashem god is good god is upright al king therefore hashem instructs the sinner on the road another benefit what if somebody is such a navarian they spoke in hara so many times they got angry so many times they did oh you know astavaram so many times so maybe then remember says look of course i gave you chuva and you could rise up from your despicable state and you could if you do chuba the yavera won't draw you anymore and if you do chuva your neshama won't be destroyed and i won't be upset but that's only if you sinned once twice a couple of times and maybe what if you're done the avira thousands of times so maybe mothership says in that case get lost but he says if you have that you want the way it won't draw you no why would you do it again no but what if i know what about somebody who doesn't do children what about somebody who did the avira so many thousands of times could even that person do chuba says even if you sinned many many times then lim right and you rebelled uh and you were treacherous you could still do chuva sagar bad don't say but the gates are still not closed shanimer shiva then of ishai says even if your diversion is deep very positive return i will heal your hero heal your waywardness so a few more lines says um it's not enough that so so for how many benefits do we see you sin he became despicable back to normal avira won't draw you anymore your neshama won't be punished hashem won't be angry at you hashem taught us that there's truman hashem warned us that there's juva works even if you've sinned numerous times not only that not only did god warn us to do tuba he warned us in the torah many times to do truth you would think imagine if i came to you i said to you here there's a credit card ten thousand dollars uh credit you could do for ten thousand or whatever you want so i give it to you so you would think if i give it you should go use it right i said use it for whatever you want so if you don't use it i should i should go tell you go spend it i gave it to you and i told you to spend it i should warn you to use it you would think if i gave you ten thousand bucks and i told you to use it and you're not using it so you're shaitan no the vanishing says no i gave you the gift and i told you about it and i'm gonna warn you what if you you warned the guy he said i gave you the credit card i want you to use a wall use it two weeks go by the guy didn't use it at all so you warn him again warns us again it's not once that he wants us to do tuva he warns us many times because this is benefit eight god warned us that shiva in many places what about if somebody does chuva just because he has so many surim that what's he going to do imagine somebody his health health is failing his uh financial situation is failing his family is failing and nothing in his right is go life is going right so he comes to our reversal i'm so sorry for from time that's too chuba well the guy was living life is needed you would think that that shiva like that that's not true but somebody who understands on his own that he he went far away from hashem of course this guy this guy has no alternative he's only doing the chuba to be able to make more money or to have an easier life no even if you do chuva because life is difficult god also accepts it still accept it it's clear in the torah bellas troopers accepted even if a person repents because of great distress is certainly if a person does chew that of fear or love like apostle says when you're in distress and all of these punishments happen but the end of the days vish like alpha if you do chew them after the karla god will accept it okay let's finish this paragraph another thing what about somebody who can't do truva what about somebody does not have the wherewithal the personal wherewithal to repent it's impossible for him it is possible for a person to have fallen in a in a situation where they know they can't do chuva it's impossible imagine a guy he grew up um [Music] without any exposure to judaism and he lived a certain lifestyle for many many years and now he's exposed to ms is it possible for such a person to change his lifestyle i mean we know how difficult it is for us to change the smallest habit and here you have a guy he's been acting a certain way his whole life he's been eating a certain way living a certain way he can't do chuva listen to this to his torah another benefit kiazar hashem god will help those who want to do chuva kashira even if naturally they cannot get there even somebody who really it is not difficult it is actually impossible for them to do chuva god will help them do what they can't do will instill within them a spirit of purity to reach the level of allah in other words here you have a guy he's so far he's so low can he love god and the answer is really no the ebola shall say no problem just just try you try and i'll come in and i'll ignite the fire i'll do the rest no no he's not he's not repenting out of sorrow no but that that how does he know that he's doing wrong no he's exposed to the truth but he's exposed sometimes even though you know what the right thing is ver it's sometimes very hard to to observe in accordance with one's knowledge not everything we know not everything we we know we observe other than the proper way shanna like apostle says when you do chew up but you listen god will circumcise your heart to achieve love of god which means like this it means right now can this live love hashem impossible this person has either lived in a certain way or fallen into a certain pitfall or develops certain habits that it's impossible for him to love hashem if he tries god will say you try i'll open your heart i'll do it even though the person themselves is impossible the abundant will kick in so so far how many benefits did we see you could rise elevate yourself out of one's despicable state you could remove yourself from the draw of the sin number two number three you spare your soul the destruction number four evangelion won't be angry number five hashem taught us about number six he warned us about shiva number seven shuba works even if you sin greatly number eight even if you do chuva out of suffering number nine even if you can't do it hashem will help you do it and finally says not only does the torah tell us about the naviem and the suvim constantly speak about shiva and the vietnamese that all the principles of chuba are a nancy and the words of the review and and this is all to explain to us that shiva is not good for hashem it's good for you it's good for us it's a taiva and if we recognize it's a taiwa we will be motivated to try to mikayem the great mitzvah of chuva you've just experienced another torah class brought to you 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