Embracing Elul: TEAR LOOSE FROM SIN AND CONQUER THE BEAST WITHIN

When Chuva feels impossible because it's been tried so many times before. 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. Remember this idea from R R Kholobronsky when the man will find in Parashisky Seitze a woman that is not Jewish, in the heat of battle, she's a married woman, an asias-ish. But 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. He's allowed Sezraschi, specifically here. It's just too much to ask from the fellow, too hard of a challenge to overcome Go ahead. So it's mutter Sezraschi. 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 Yifas Torah, 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. If it's a challenge, if it's an asay or 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. 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. Anila Deideva Deidele, this is a loving relationship. Child, please come home to daddy. And it's chuvah that I ask of you. And while the Yates of Haramay say what you have, given your best shot to chuvah. You know it's not possible. Who are you kidding? You remember, if it's chuvah that Hashem wants and chuvah that Hashem commands, well then it's chuvah that will give Hashem. So it takes a couple things to do, chuvah. It takes a making up of your mind, deciding that enough is enough. It takes a beseeching help from above, from heaven. It takes the atadishmaya, 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. Chuvah during Elo is plausible. We can trounce the Satan's tricks. We can overcome the stumbling blocks. We can return to our former glory. Do not imagine that chuvah is impossible. Stride forth and repent to the Lord, who is ready and open with loving arms.