Aug. 28, 2023

Breaking Free from Sin: The Transformative Power of Repentance During Elul

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Season 5

Do you ever feel trapped by the same recurring sins, held captive by vulnerabilities you've battled against repeatedly? This episode presents the liberating truth - that Chuva, or repentance, is possible and within your reach. Through the teachings of Rav Chatzkel Abramsky, we discover the encouraging message from Parashashki Seitse about a man's desire for a forbidden woman and how, in specific circumstances, even this act is permitted. This enlightening narrative uncovers the profound truth that no commandment in the Torah is impossible. If it appears so, it's often allowed - a beacon of hope for those burdened by their failings, encouraging us to strive for change rather than succumbing to despair.

As we approach the reflective month of Elul, we delve deeper into the process of Chuva - from the critical decision to resist sin to the solicitation of divine guidance and, finally, finding the strength to foster change. We'll inspire you to seize the moment and embrace the transformative power of repentance. Listen and discover how Hashem never hands us a challenge we're incapable of overcoming, a testament to our inherent capacity to transcend our weaknesses. Remember, no matter how wayward we've been, Hashum is always prepared to welcome us back with open arms. So, let's tread the path to repentance together, firmly believing in our ability to return to our former glory.

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When Chuva feels impossible because it's been tried so many times before.

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Yet we keep stumbling in that same sin, the same area that we feel vulnerable in, and the Yaitzahara has us thinking, doubting our ability to ever reach moral freedom and the task of Chuva, repentance seems too much to overcome, the obstacle too formidable, the road too arduous and the hurdle too high.

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Remember this idea from R R Kholobrowski when the man will find in Parashashki Seitse a woman that is not Jewish, in the heat of battle, she's a married woman, an asias-ish.

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Simply the pull, the drive, the Yaitzahara's tricks, they're too strong on him, they're too powerful, and he really desires to marry her, even though it's forbidden, but due to the circumstances, in his emotional state and mental state, it's permitted.

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He's allowed Sezrashki specifically here.

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It's just too much to ask from the fellow, too hard of a challenge to overcome Go ahead.

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So it's mutter Sezrashki.

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We see from here that the Torah never asks of us anything that's impossible, because if it was impossible it would be permitted, just like the case of the asias-ish fast Torah.

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Like here, but every other mitzvah, but every other commandment, but every other task that Shem puts on our plates, very much possible, very much available for us to overcome the quest of moral freedom, our ability to overcome the challenges.

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If it's a challenge, if it's an asayon, something that is so remarkably painful that Shem puts on our plates, well then Shem thinks that we can get it done and we can overcome, because otherwise he wouldn't have given it to us and he would not have commanded it During elul.

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When Shem calls us back to our post, when Shem wants some chuvah, when Shem says you may have been wayward for 11 months, but it doesn't matter, I'm ready, I'm open with my arms to accept you back.

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Anila Deideva, Deidele, this is a loving relationship.

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Child, please come home to daddy.

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And it's chuvah that I ask of you.

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And while the Yates of Haramay say what you have, given your best shot to chuvah.

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You know it's not possible.

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Who are you kidding?

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You remember, if it's chuvah that Hashem wants and chuvah that Hashem commands, well then it's chuvah that will give Hashem.

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So it takes a couple things to do, chuvah.

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It takes a making up of your mind, deciding that enough is enough.

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It takes a beseeching help from above, from heaven.

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It takes siyat adishmayah.

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It takes the summoning of all of your strength and then you stride forth once and for all endeavoring to resist sin, saying no more, I am done, I am ready to conquer the beast within Chuvah during Elo is asstimus.

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Chuvah during Elo is plausible.

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We can trounce the Satan's tricks.

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We can overcome the stumbling blocks.

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We can return to our former glory.

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Do not imagine that chuvah is impossible.

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Stride forth and repent to the Lord, who is ready and open with loving arms.