TBC - Day 8 - 'Be wholehearted' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

Today is the eighth day. Mal at Eva, above nature. So yesterday, uh not yesterday, sorry, uh last week I told you that the word teshuvah comes in an acronym, remember? And I gave five verses of uh the acronym. Today I want to learn the first verse, which is tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha, and explain very briefly, not to get too much deep and complicated, that's where things become hard to handle. Simple and fast, easier to do. So I told you that the word teshuvah, if teshuvah is hard for you, then you break it into five segments, which will be the letters of each uh uh each one of the five letters of the word teshuvah. The first one was the verse tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha, tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha, that you should be wholehearted with your God. And to understand that, Judaism comes and elevates or makes an importance when a person is tamim. Where do we see it the first time is with Yakov Avinu. He was tamim, ish tam yoshev ohalim. What is tamim? The translation of tamim is innocence. But the best way to explain it is completeness. And this is a very very high level in service of Hashem. Because in one way you are innocent, like a child, like a baby. You don't uh you're not judgmental. You don't see bad in others. You like have this innocence. Now, I'm not I'm not talking about a gullible or naive. I'm talking about a purity. So this innocence, this temimut, is purity. I mean, I'm a rasha gamur how I look at myself. My wife I don't even know how she even accepted to marry me. Sometimes how she talks, I'm like next to her, I'm like a farbeh effer. I like look at a certain individual how they behave in my mind, woo. Oh, how I dissect that individual. And she can't see anything bad about anybody. And I'm like, "What?" That's a crook. No, he's so nice. So, I don't have it, unfortunately. Maybe one day in 50 years I'll have this temimut in me. You know, maybe when you come from a background with no temimut, then it sticks there for 60 years. But some individual, this innocence, it's I wouldn't even call it innocence, I would call it purity. You have another word for us? Untainted. Untainted. Ah. Woo. Untainted. Nevertheless, this temimut, this innocence, this untainted, this completeness, the Torah comes and puts it above everything. Right? Now, how do you get to this level of this simplicity? With a uh uh sorry, how do you get to this level of this temimut is simplicity, with pashtut. And again, I'll say it again, so I need to it's really resonate in my mind, not in your not in your ears. How do you get to this level of temimut is with pashtut, with simplicity. What's the opposite of simplicity? How do you get to this pashtut? Is you have to run away from what's called hitkhakmut. Hitkhakmut is uh philosophizing. Right? Or uh uh uh uh how would you say? Not analytics. There's another word sophistry, right? Sophistry? Yeah, sophistication. Sophisticate It's hitkhakmut. Don't be a wise tuchus. This is the complete opposite of pashtut. So how do you get to this simplicity? Is that you run away from, you know, being a wise whatever. And from another thing which is called hitnasut. Hitnasut is condensation. That's how you say it? Condescending. Condescending. So you got to run away from this conde- conde- conde- Condensation? Condescending? And also the the philosophizing. All these two things, this hitkhakmut and hitnasut. Okay? Now, when you're able to do that, then you reach to a level of simplicity. With simplicity you become tamim. And Yakov Avinu was ish tam yoshev ohalim. He was he was yoshev ohalim, learning Torah, but you first of all he was ish tam. After that he was yoshev ohalim. The Baal Shem Tov comes and tells us tam higher than yoshev ohalim. Yoshev ohalim means that you sit and learn Torah all day long. Uh you sit and learn Torah all day long, you are malach Elokim. But yoshev, yeah, but tam, temimut, it's above. So the way to do teshuvah tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. Bring yourself to a level that you are simple, you are whole, innocent, that you pure. That's how you do teshuvah. I mean, that's one of the segments of doing teshuvah. I want to read something about what Rabbi Nachman says. Rabbi Nachman me Breslov bigdil asot, he took it to the next level. The main thing that he focused on, Rabbi Nachman from Mesivta, it would had would whatever had to do with temimut, with this simplicity. And according to Rabbi Nachman, beshitato hatam oleh al hakham. According to Rabbi Nachman, tam, a person who is whole, pure, and complete is greater than a hakham. And we don't have much hakhamim in our generation, by the way. Rabbi Rabbi Ovadia was hakham, hakham Ovadia. How many hakhamim do we have? I'm not talking about a hakham balaila. I'm talking about a real hakham. According to Rabbi Nachman, tam oleh al hakham. So when we want to approach the the the teshuvah the right way, tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. Don't come and start having condensation onto the Kadosh Baruch Hu. Don't come and have sophis- sophisti- sophis- sophistry and and and philosophizing on the Kadosh Baruch Hu. When you come and hitkhakem im a Kadosh Baruch Hu This is a problem that many people have. They start becoming uh khokhmolog, as they say. Tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. The Kadosh Baruch Hu tells you to be tamim. If I come and tell my child now, a 2-year-old, a 3-year-old, anything, wow. That's how you have to be. Hashem tells you, "Love everybody." Okay. "Don't get angry." Tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. Take the word of Hashem in the most innocent way. You know, Adam and Hava were innocent, am you temimim. They would walk around naked. They didn't even see any deficiency. Didn't look at each other body parts. This temimut, I sometimes look at the little kids, the purity. Ah. I wish I had this purity, not to be judgmental, not to lose my anger, not to lose my temper, not to not to look at other people like as if I'm better than them. You look at another person right away, arrogance. Put two two two babies a year and a half year old in the same playpen. Either way they play with each other. Okay, I know somebody will distort what I'm saying, and But nevertheless, look at the temimut of the purity of the child, and this is what Hashem tells us, tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. Be wholehearted with the Kadosh Baruch Hu. Kadosh Baruch Hu already will bring you to a much higher levels, and that will allow you to do serious teshuvah, because you're already looking everything from above, and not from below.