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if we start looking a little bit deeper
we see a theme here which i think may be
one of the greatest secrets
to the simplicity
of returning to hashem and repentance
in the month of elul because what i
don't want to have end is this
fellowship to end and say ari just said
a lot of things and my head's spinning
and he wasn't thinking very clearly and
what do i do now
right
where do i go with this
so we just saw the prohibition against
idolatry which of course we get but then
then what astrology a medium a palm
reader what is so wrong with that so i
think the answer is given in the very
next verses in the torah so we're
talking about chapter 18 verses 13 to
14. you shall be perfect
you shall be tamim tameem to you you
shall be perfect with the lord your god
for these nations which you shall
possess listen to soothsayers and to
diviners but as for you the lord your
god has not allowed you to do so
so it says there in the in the text the
translation says we shall be perfect you
know the hebrew word is tamim which
could also be defined as maybe simple
uh not complicated
which is which is actually the theme of
uh you know of all the activities we
just read they all
have one thing that connect them they
all convey a lack of trust
think about when does an army send spies
and seek to gather intelligence on what
awaits them
when they're scared when they don't
trust when they feel like they need to
take matters into their own hands
jeremy has shared before the idea of the
word shuva in hebrew that each letter of
the word conveyed a fundamental step
necessary in the chuva process
shiva is composed of these
five words
so here's the whole word here's the
slide tabitha could you pull that slide
up
so it's it's a beautiful sign tough it
says tamim tia mesha melo
then it says shiviti hashem and nigda
meet hashem should be
opposite me always right that's from the
lashon of
meaning it should all everything should
be equal before me you shall love your
neighbor as yourself
in all of god's ways you shall know him
um anyways but the first one
is the verse
from that we just read is the verse from
our torah portion
we shall be
tamim we shall be simple now the great
commentator rashi he explains that in
the case of the word tamim it doesn't
mean just perfect as we said before
because that's impossible
but it means more wholehearted and
trusting and accepting
right wholehearted and trusting and
accepting we don't need
witchcraft or palm readers to know the
future because people that go to those
things are afraid of what the future
holds and they want a glimpse and they
want to know and we're not
because we know that hashem is our king
and he's our abba and he's our father
and he is leading us along the way and
we trust him wholeheartedly without
fears or doubts and so how can we be
tamim with hashem
how can we be
wholehearted and trusting and accepting
with hashem i think the answer is by
calmly
accepting
what comes our way with equanimity by
accepting what happens to us with
serenity or to at least know that that's
the goal that that's the aspiration this
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