Teshuva: Do it for your Soul! - Rabbi Gershon Turetsky

shalom everybody hope you're doing well it's a privilege and a pleasure once again to be sharing total with the kolhatorakula community this time of year as rosh hashanah is approaching and then a series mechuva the new kipper certainly something that we are all focusing on is chupa and that can be a very overwhelming task a very overwhelming idea we are burdened by so much some of us we're burdened by maybe the misdirections of our lives or our feelings of unfulfilled potential and it could be overwhelming can be sad it can be difficult and unfortunately that is the feeling that some of us bring with us as we approach these auspicious days but perhaps we can have somewhat of a different perspective a different appreciation of the light that shubha can bring into our lives that was one of the seven things that was created before the creation of the world itself what does that mean for us that not only for the world in general it's true of an integral part of existence but for us individuals as well we must have the opportunity to do truva to return and to repent and many of us many of us view chuva as the asham which is true that's part of the true process that's viduay but shubha is more than that and it's deeper than that and it's more significant than that in terms of what it does for our soul where cook explains it also that the act of truva is an incredibly healthy process for the soul and the reason being is because we have a natural inclination to return to the bonus ola our soul deep inside of us so that we may not we might not feel it all the time struggles with our burdens and our misdirections and our misdeeds and when we do truva we allow our soul to reconnect with our true self and with our bonus and that is an incredibly happy and incredibly healthy experience so as we are unburdening ourselves through the algae and through the process of trevor over the next 10 days through the metamorphosis of ourselves as our salvation explains in al-achuva we should keep in mind that although it might be difficult for us and it might be overwhelming for us it might have be a little bitter for us reminding ourselves of what we've gone through we have to focus on what we are doing for our true selves for our souls by allowing ourselves the opportunity to to return to the border shoulder so it's not only to do but to focus on the positive aspects of it and to allow our souls to reconnect in the strongest way with our source to that of it hashem will make ourselves better people in the world a better place and happiness came here may know [Music]