Seeing the Good in Our Troubles: Shaarei Teshuva 2:2-3 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome back back to the shark trouba kabora here we go right we've been going for a while i'm sure you all had hopefully all had a fantastic pesach as we were talking before we turned the camera on unfortunately we don't have the temple right we want to know what do we say next year in jerusalem if we're in jerusalem it it has to hit the heart because we don't have the temple we don't have mashiach we don't have sanhedrin we don't have to keep its goliath we don't have the entire nation here uh with uh in one place right this is the the goal and so we don't have the shrine right we're missing hashem to a certain extent oh welcome of the word lipsha okay and leia oh great layers on long time no see okay so everyone's muted out great uh rockhell you're not muted out yet there you are okay so the truth be told we accomplished right i can't say we finished because this is a a resource book right it's something you have to review and review and review unfortunately i i'm always interested in learning new things so i don't get a chance to review as much as i i should but we just finished i say just meaning whatever the last uh episode we had finished shah alef which is called the first chapter listen there's only four chapters right there's shar arva right there's only four chapters so uh i think that was like i'm not going to say it's exactly a quarter it's probably the smallest i think the first in the last chapters of the smaller so anyway we did have a a we we accomplished a lot okay let's not be little let's not look back and say we didn't accomplish a lot because you know when you're learning it's not right we i was taunting yeshiva it's not right to always look ahead so oh my god look how much i have yet to do look back and say this is what i have accomplished and review right it helps your uh you know your um self-esteem level you know because when you come in and there's so much to learn and you realize that the torah wisdom really is as broad as the sea as the ends of the earth you could say wow i'll never get anywhere but that's not true that's not true at all wherever you get to is exactly where you need to be okay so we are beginning a bet we'll call it the second chapter and i have to tell you the first paragraph is extremely difficult hebrew wise it's very poetic it's almost like the whole first chapter the paragraph is just poem but it's deep and it's meaningful and we'll go word by word the second paragraph obviously it's more meat and potatoes and we're going to deal with the idea that should i tell now or wait okay i'll tell you a little bit you know if people are not really ready to do truva right hashem sends them signs god loves us he wants us to do tour so he may send us may here i'm using the word may right he may send us some signs he may send us some difficulties and some challenges in order to wake us up and when we wake up from our slumber and decide oh my gosh these pains these difficulties are coming to me because of my mistakes because of my sins and i correct my behavior it's still beloved by god just it's totally acceptable by god he'll accept your chuva and why why should that work right you just imagine someone who on his own such a siding that says i want to come close to hashem and without any signs without any difficulties isn't that at such a high level and yes hashem there's plenty of people on that level but for maybe for us or i don't know you guys right if for some reason we're still in a slumber and yet hashem loves us and he sends us these difficulties in order to arouse us to awaken us and we end up doing true just to get rid of the difficulties that is acceptable and look at that's basically in chapter in paragraph two but i want to mention that we're not gonna finish paragraph two we're just gonna get started okay so let's begin i just want to read the um the english paragraph at the introduction to paragraph two so we just have an idea he kind of sums up where we were at with paragraph one it's very short in the first jar the char means the gate in the first gate prescribed describe the principles of truth of repentance the steps that a person must take to perform complete truva and regain hashem's favor he broke it down into 20 steps by the way we know as three major categories or three major steps one should go through we call kharata that's regret a ziva tachet is to abandon the sin meaning to change your behavior and commit to changing the behavior and number three is confession okay so those are the steps here and he broke it down into 20. so in order to gain complete um chuva and regain hashem's favor you take those steps although the obligation to repent is clear a person often needs a joke it's whatever that means to rouse him from his sinful ways in this shah in this gate romano yonah will discuss the various situations and circumstances that should inspire a person to perform truva and explains how a person can best take advantage of these opportunities to improve their ways so robina yona begins with a poetic introduction whenever it comes to you know i'm going to call it medieval i mean we're talking about the um a thousand years ago 900 years ago 900 years ago it's the it wasn't modern hebrew put it that way so we'll do the best we can for christian we have an english translation if we get stopped he's going to break six categories and there are six ways okay by various factors circumstances which a person can arouse himself arouse themselves to repent of their evil ways regarding each one of them we will inform the people right this is so important you can't live your life without knowing these okay so go back to the first i don't know how many 26 25 episodes and stick with us right be committed commit yourself to learn about these six ways and that's justin char bet ech how one should proceed how one should walk how one should behave in going about examining these characteristics okay to examine to really investigate these your abilities the azim ad to nato and how to assess until you fully understand the naughty hem or using the shimoa and that your ears would be a awoke oh i love that word it's very popular now in the news to really truly be woke i mean these people use the word have no clue what they're even talking about right but we want to be awoken awaken right uriuri right that's a very common one this all judaism is about being mindful being really truly awakened so here you want to know how to tune your ear to be awoken so that your ears can hear haskell do you do and then truly become enlightened to uh to really understand and know ikarim yikarim the main principles the precious right the car like the clear car precious the the precious principles that we will be explaining and analyzing so anybody who wants to hear will be able to understand them now the he begins in with an english sentence to the next paragraph ideally though one should repent without ever being exposed to these various factors the yotter mayhema but beyond these my son my daughter take care listen listen well return every single day do repentance every single day the north shore here in order to purify your soul so your soul will be purified right even without encountering any true the inspiring circumstance now i wanted to stop here to discuss ravnoch weinberg of the written the previous ish roshiva vegeta passed away you know we were here in israel i was a student of his during the the the crisis the first crisis we called the gulf war and we were threatened for months that they were going to shoot um iraq i think was iraq at the time was going to shoot katusha rockets and people were crying people were afraid and there's no no different from today i want you to know that ever since 1948 right the war began the war began in 1948 okay we never finished the war has not finished yet and uh it's gonna end well it's already you know looking good but nevertheless we still face adversaries that have threatened us and you know what's going on in in iran in in the middle east i don't know who was responsible for the latest attacks in iran i mean i'm not saying i can't tell you because if i tell you who knows they might you know anyway so we we do know that israel was most likely involved on some level but anyway there's a constant threat so what does not say we gave our gas masks we were afraid of chemical attack and he said take advantage you know you put a mezuzah on your door to remind you that god loves you walk around with your gas mask and put a sticker put a sticker you know put some graffiti on your gas mask box that reminds you a few verses of tehillim or something because even the word for a rocket this particular kind of rocket was called teling a teal and the word to heal him it was like a play on words say to heal him in order to stave off the teal the the tealing it's amazing right that he says what does god want from you right god wants you to do the right thing he wants you to right do his commandments be obedient love him love mankind he's only bringing and this is a drum roll please he's only bringing this in order to waken us up so that this doesn't have to happen and broke hashem i don't think anybody was really killed there was supposedly one person who was killed or died i should say and he was um i think he died of a heart attack and he anyway was i know let's not go there okay anyway um you can look up all the stories about the one person that supposedly died uh apparently he owned a pork store right he's selling selling pork in israel all right we're not gonna go there let's not but the point is that what we're going to talk about is that hashem can bring about let's just say a wake-up call let's use it like that a wake-up call in order for us to be awoke in order to chuva okay so you could and if you get the message right all the prophets that came if any of them told a negative prophecy meaning something bad was about to happen and it didn't happen it did not make them a false prophet because that was their whole job one of their the main principles was to cause the people to repent so the idea of a negative prophecy coming about was only not to certify whether they were a true prophet or not not at all that was only the positive prophecies but the negative prophecies were there as warning in order to away awoke awaken the people so you could change destiny you could change by changing yourself changing your family and your neighborhood and whatnot if if let's just worry about ourselves for now okay so the yala day hyun okay so and before day-to-day occurrences entrap your thoughts i mean this is what they talked about in the six day war i was talking about in 1990 okay but in the 6th or 1991 i forget whatever that was in 1991 whatever the gulf war was but um in 67 the the whole of israel was quaking and shaking in their boots when there was a seizure of the tear on straights and you had the threat of war and the miracles that took place and then slowly i mean every jew apparently whether you were religious or anti-religious there was a religious fervor people were feeling the messiah was at the doorstep and perhaps he was perhaps there was the beginning um but slowly slowly it faded away and that that's that's a mistake so we we need to keep the faith and keep it strong um so i think that's what he's talking about here that wait wake yourself up before any day-to-day occurrences entrap your thoughts there is a comment here before the talmud of daily life deprives you of the peace of mind necessary for self-reflection right before you get carried away with your day-to-day activities and forget all about what just happened and tisco what you really what really should happen is all you have to do is think about hashem that's it that's how simple it is right i just made it real simple but he is saying that you can do this you can remind yourself how important whatever it is you need to change right and and make a plan and all that stuff if you're really thinking about your creator afar for your awareness just being awoke right being aware of hashem that itself shall restore your soul from any sinful behavior that is born of our bodies that's why we're called adam adam is from the ad all right we're from the afar we're from uh we're a clump of dirt we're like using the word we're a clump of clay we're a clump of earth right that's what we are um this is a double language of awokenness right to unleash the power of being awakened i'll call it a spiritual awakening i like that word spiritual awakening uh keshit regarding your knowledge of hashem in order to straighten the twisted paths of your own nature um so what what do you need in your life like i feel like a preacher like ah this is what you need i mean this is what we all need i need i need to have all of god we call it fear of hashem but i don't like that translation so much let's call it hashem even the word fear in this case write the word year ah or comes from seeing meaning when you're just wow right you have this wow moment you just unbelievably huge well i like that word huge just big right you realize how small you are how big he is so that's part of the year experience the aw experience you also have to have ahavato love for hashem and a certain amount of busha busha means bashfulness or being being ashamed okay not in the not in the sense that we think of the shame you know but of his presence here there's a comment here and not a big one okay we'll skip that and this will help you continually grow to greater spiritual heights and that's why i like the idea of a spiritual awakening because it's really begin this awakening is beginning your path and hopefully you'll stay with your eyes wide open so you don't you know go off the path or crash into something on the way um i read that remind okay it means like quick um and early so here they have the word diligently right you're gonna work diligently in order to clean yourself of well literally just clean your hands but it means of your sin to clean yourself of your sin that's what you will actively be doing with your time and your time on this planet is short okay um in order to purge to cleanse any rebellious ideas that you have in your mind the he baru also a concept of purging or cleansing no you say clay no this is interesting the bearers of your soul's armor which is actually referring to your body you this right your soul is the driver and your body is the car is the vehicle that gets you around okay so when it says the bearer of your soul's armor look in number five down below this refers to i mean it's kind of a quote based on isaiah 52 11 but this refers to the body which houses the soul and should ideally serve the desires of the soul unfortunately it doesn't right we all know that but by cleaning one's thoughts a person's body is purified yeah there's a mind-body connection and we have to get in touch with that much more and um when you when you clarify your thoughts then the body is purified and one can more easily be guided to serve hashem alternatively this refers to the person's mind which is used by the soul to achieve its spiritual goals when we talk about the soul right it's it's over here and and then the last statement well there's a few more words here and oh so okay and also what else is very important yotra right remembering your creator remembering your maker and yeah i told you this is a poetic and very difficult but um this word of india is a double language of adornment so your soul will adorn itself to find characteristics and achieve perfect beauty you know i have to tell you i personally have seen different civilizations and i happen to think that people who are happy are the most beautiful people right you have a smile there's something of the yofi there's something of the beauty that's coming and shining from the face so you know where i live or the certain places that you go and the people look so depressed right they look depressed and maybe they have every right to be depressed because they have bad leaders right i'm talking about our cousins but you know what i mean and um when when you pass by these and it could be anywhere in the world anybody who's just so depressed they look like they they have no hope in fact when you walk by them there's such hate and anger in their eyes you could see it and sense it and to me i just have to tell you and it looks ugly right they're not bisimbra there's not there's no hope and there's no joy in their faces and um you know without being racist and i didn't mention any race but it's it's an ugly people it's an ugly nation right so what is it about the jewish people that seems to be the opposite you know hashem i mean look we just had your show a day i'm not saying broke shim yo masho but the idea is that there's there's so much hope after i feel like crying you know after the horrible experiences that our people been through we're not victims we don't play the victim card we pull up our pants we put on our suspenders we pack a lunch and we go out and figure out how we're going to work and they fire you because you cut you don't come to work on saturday so you find a new job on sunday there's something about a people that has hope okay so you should cling to those people right find people with positive attitudes who are trying to work on their character trying to be nicer people trying to do hesit trying to be creative and feeling finding ways to do that's it even though it may be difficult for them even though maybe they don't have the resources but maybe they have ideas i mean they you know put them together with someone has the resources whatever it is hang out with people like that it's worth it change your life and so here's a verse um it's in isaiah chapter 45 25. and there's a great uh comment on this book before we'll read the verse through the lord bo hashem what does it mean through the lord shall all the seed of israel find righteousness and boast shall be justified right shall be shall find righteousness some kind of praise will be boasted all the seed of israel i'll tell you what it means through hashem by consciously being god conscious by thinking about hashem remember what hashem is he was is and will be if that his name doesn't represent hope right i don't know what does but listen to what rashi says through the promise of the support of his love they shall find find righteousness and boast of his strength now the remember the idea here is that you did not decide on your own it didn't come from the inside i wanted to truva hashem made it difficult for you right he brought enemies to you he brought challenges to you and for some reason if you're god conscious you will say i'm telling you what you have to say you will say it's something i did that brought this upon me see the victim will constantly blame the other people always it's the other person's fault and as long as the other person's fault you got nothing to work on there's nothing to change what are you kidding me it's him it's her no if there if there's something i could find within myself to change my thought patterns my behavior then perhaps it would be a different outcome so let's read uh number six down below ribenu ribeno yona understands the verse to be saying that through just through thinking about hashem the jewish people would become righteous just by thinking about god you become righteous as he explains below in shah 3 and paragraph 27 being mindful of hashem not only inspires a person to repent but leads the person to acquire many desirable traits practices and character traits all of which are considered adornment for a person in other words we say there's 13 attributes of hashem and we're supposed to acquire them in our lives right we are supposed to imitate hashem the torah itself says it right following his ways okay so the attributes of hashem the attributes of mercy we're supposed to incorporate into our lives okay so now let's begin the next it's not the next paragraph but it's within this paragraph where he's he's still being a little bit poetic okay the tosaf oymetz so there's this extra strength you should strengthen yourself further with inmates strengthen again to be awoken to wake yourself up to wake your spirit hashisha in order to follow these six pads these six waves of inspiration that we're going to discuss now he's still in the poetic mood va as for someone who has not yet reached this level the level of constantly thinking about god okay so we're not thinking about god all the time that his um his uncircumcised heart and i say uncircumcised he translates as unfeeling heart okay the concept of uncircumcised means that there's a barrier it's not sensitive right when you remove the url the the the um foreskin of the heart so then you will be more you'll be more sensitized so the unfeeling heart should be humbled by these six ways and you'll see many things that will help you in self-reflection remember it's about being aware know however that to the extent that one needs less external simulation stimulation from any of the six ways meaning yes it would be great if it came from within it this is all these external ways are in to inspire your heart to to inspire the person to do truth in other words it's coming from next external it's coming externally it's just a fact okay it would be nice if it all came from within but it ain't always going to be the case but guess what's going to happen they can correspondingly to the extent of one's heart is inclined to to perform chuba through his own will simply by thinking about hashem so you're talking about if you think about hashem all the time great but unfortunately we don't so then if negative things happen externally to us that should bring about at least even though it's called secondary right it's not initiated by you but it's coming as a result as a consequence of some negative negativity coming from the outside then you should think about hashem and perform truva yuvador because the ultimate is that the idea of truth anyway is coming from within to the extent that it should be known and determined that the true you performed is coming from your soul your soul is still your soul and it's always unblemished there's no pagoon there's no blemish on your soul and here there's a great commentary here robina yona mentioned above previously that the higher levels of chuva that means beyond the elementary three steps um through which one gains greater degrees of closeness with hashem are products of purity of the soul and refinement refinement of the intellect it's coming because your soul is pure and wants to remain pure and it helps refine the intellect now when a person's salt is sullied meaning dirtied if he's somehow uh we come at the lower levels but you have ruach and and nephesh now even when a person's soul is sullied if he's somewhat motivated to repent through one of these six ways the person can gain pureness of soul to the process of truth itself by the way we talk about the process of truth in the soul it's really again just to repeat that it's the lower two levels not the neshama but the nephesh and the ruach can progress from the lower levels of shuba to the higher levels however when one is initially inspired to repent out of pure recognition of hashem's presence the resulting truth is profound and heartfelt from the outset and indicative of nobility in the person's soul so obviously if it can come from within it maybe we have to use like a jump starter you have i don't remember the old lawn mowers or the old motorcycles believe it or not you didn't have like an electric ignition you had to pull a draw a drawstring and it didn't always work on the first time you had to do some i mean it could it could hurt you right if you're not used to it right because how often do you mow your lawn right once a month i don't know whatever once a season so pulling that string could be uh the greatest effort you made that whole day besides you know walking around with the lawnmower that's all i just remember mowing my my my lawn as a kid trying to make a buck and doing some neighbors it was uh it was a lot of work the bigger the lawn the greater the work anyway so when we do truva from within so that's the highest level that'll be great but unfortunately we're not always there and sometimes it's coming from the outside and it's like pulling on the string to get things going fine okay now we're going to begin paragraph two which is really the nut and bolts and i told you we're only going to probably get to half half paragraph two i hope derek harishon the first way the first of the six ways in order to be aroused whenever a person experiences any kind of tsar any kind of pain hardship yoshida alibo the yomir pay attention take to your heart and say to yourself i'm telling you i'm repeating from the romero yoda what you have to say to yourself don't forget this this is what you have to say to yourself ain't zakim dar and darko and well then nothing other than the person's own sinful path and the sinful deeds have brought the situation upon ourselves how easy it's so easy just to say it's the other guy it's the other person it's the circumstances it's not my fault you should you know before you say that examine really well you may actually conclude it's not your fault it may be not your fault but there's something you did maybe in a previous lifetime maybe a long time ago and maybe it's only out of god's love there's a thing called isuri we'll talk about that on the time and that's just accepting the negative consequences that come to you with pure love but that's only after examining your deeds and you have to be honest with yourself most of us i'm talking to myself here i'm not always honest with myself it's so easy just to look at the circumstances and blame the other person wow is it easy right we it's it's um it's hard it's hard to be honest with yourself but that's what we need to do that's what we need to do so that's what we need to say lenovo and that it is the sins that cause this person the grief the yahshua of el hashem the oracle and return to hashem you have to realize this is what you need to do and then hashem will have mercy on you how hard is that it's like oh my gosh i thought i had to go through chemo and radiation all i need is an aspirin right all i need is a little drink of water that's it just accept the responsibility you know figure out what it is and hashem will have mercy yeah even though it came from the the external forces are waking you up pay attention pay attention that's what it means to be an observant jew right to be observant of looking with the right eyes with the right glasses is there a comment here i wanted to share yeah why not let's let's look at comment number one all that happens to us is a result of divine providence everything that happens to us are we right it's because god caused it or allowed it to happen a person does not stub their toe in this world unless it has been decreed upon from above guys this is nothing new you've heard this all before i'm just saying it may be a little bit different thus a person must view any hardship they encounter however small as a punishment for sin remember it's not just the punishment there is no such thing as a god i mean i shouldn't say that i mean in terms of other religions they have all kinds of understandings of god but our understanding god is not let's just say like this probably the word punishment is not a good translation what god wants you to do is to be corrected that's the ultimate so when he gives you let's say a patch a little whatever it means a pot just a slap a an uncomfortable situation it's in order to awaken you so that you will do the chuva okay so if you don't do the truva i'm just going to repeat this is rabbi mendel kessen's uh understanding from the ram khal that hashem gave you the mixes to do fine that's plan a you do the mitzvahs but he also knew we're not perfect we don't always do the misses so well it's another statement and therefore he gave us plan b plan b is truva repentance but he also knows we're not so strong and this is what we're talking about this is uh how did you repent sometimes we're not so strong and well versed in the ways of repentance so he gave us plan c and that's called isurim the challenges difficulties again it doesn't mean that it's a punishment in the sense that this is what you deserve that's what you're getting but it's actually a rectification right even in america i don't know what the other countries is the penitentiary system is it a is it a um is it a punishment that you go to jail or is it a rehabilitation experience for the sake of making you a mensch making you a uh wholesome part of society you can return to right and be more like a new and improved version of who you were well that's what the second one that's what we view our punishment i know it's it's a hard word to swallow or even say right but that ultimately is what the punishment if you want to use that word is to bring about is the second one is the rehabilitative properties right and you can see it right here this is what we're talking about however it's not enough to know that one's suffering is on account of one's sense that's very nice okay i know why it's happening and just leave it at that no way a person must act upon this realization and correct his ways hashem is talking to you he's giving you a message listen right that's what god wants and then you go ahead and just dis it oh yeah yeah he's talking to me but i'm gonna listen i got other things to do if you listen and you act upon it hashem will certainly show mercy to the person isn't that nice okay easier said than done of course how far do we get okay so there's a verse which we um this is in deuteronomy chapter 31 17. so this expresses it right my fury will rage against them on that day hashem is promising right you act a certain way i'm going to be angry my rage not anger anyway i will abandon them and hide my face from them and they will be consumed no many evils and troubles will befall them this is going to be the main point here right and and they will say on that day what's the response what's the right response what's the wrong response it is not because our god is no longer in my midst that these evil have befallen me question mark is it now think about it measure for measure if the person is disconnected from the relation a relationship to hashem and bad things happen and they turn around and say whatever is happening has nothing to do with hashem that is the sin and therefore the response is oh really you're on your own you want to be on your own you're on your own listen we have a comment on here um yeah so here at number two this is an expression of regret meaning their response again they will say on that day is it not because my god is not in my midst that these evils have found me they're admitting their afflictions are a result of their sinful behavior i skip something this is an expression of regret over their sins for by saying because my god is not in my midst that was the sin they admit that their afflictions the usurim are a result of their sinful behavior which actually caused hashem's protection to be lifted from them this is measure for measure okay if somebody harmed another human being and at the time of the distress at the time of the pain you caught you have this regret olav sorry and then you go before the person you humble yourself before the person you wronged because you need that person's help right now we all i'm sure we've all you know experienced this and maybe it happens to us as the uh the other way around someone did us wrong and then they need our help and they're all very nice to us right okay t right so let's use the example someone harmed us and we know they weren't nice to us but now they need our help so they come all like you know and we're looking at them like you're a low life you know but you know what we should be doing we should have a lot of mercy on them listen to this let me just read his words that their expression of regret we look at as very deficient right as maybe even insincere and we somehow reject it and there's an example by iftach in in judges in shofting chapter 11 verse 7. now to read the english why have you come to me now when you are in distress right they harmed him or they they mocked him they and now they're coming for they need a favor and he says why do you come to me now when you're in distress let's look at um number three down below give talks half brothers had chased him away from his hometown in gilad and yiftak held the elders of the city somewhat responsible for his banishment because it had taken place under their watch so when am amon waged war against the jewish people the elders came the elders came and went to giftach in his place of exile and they asked him to lead the war so in other words they were aware of the shame that he experienced they didn't do anything they didn't stand up first so they were guilty and now they're coming to him now so if yiftak berated the elders for seeking him out and asking him to return only in their time of distress in other words it's garua it's not a high level to be on right you should apologize when things are good right not when all of a sudden you need the help but you know what with the kindness of hashem the way he behaves towards us this is the important lesson of tonight of today that he accepts our truva that is brought about through personal distress right we already just said that if from a human point of view we would look at that point that person coming to us as insincere you got what do you call it ulterior motives you come in asking me for help you're all humbled it doesn't matter hashem sent the distress and then they come to me they need me okay and me i'm gonna show them favor this is the way hashem works and number four below as robino yonah right at the very beginning of this work the fact that hashem gives sinners this is what we spoke about in the first show he gives sinners the opportunity to do truva that itself is a great kindness and you know it's an even greater kindness that hashem accepts true that even when the sinner is not motivated by love or awe but only because of the distress that's it unbelievable and that's the lesson and now we have some uh uh how many verses uh one i think it's two last for two verses and then we'll end it for today so look at host shaia hoshai is hosea chapter 14 verses 2 and 5. so it says like this return o israel to the lord your god for you have stumbled in your iniquity shru the israel hashem but then it says two verses three verses later i will remedy their backsliding i love them freely for my wrath has turned away from them now we'll have to see rashi on this but what does that mean i will remedy their backsliding i will love them freely from my wrath has turned away from them he's no longer angry look at rashi obstacles have come to you because of your iniquity right these negative circumstances you find yourself in that sar the pains are or you know the negative consequences that come into your life are because of your iniquity but i will remedy your backsliding said the prophet so said the holy spirit to me said to me after they say this before me i will remedy their backsliding and i will love them with a charitable spirit with my charitable spirit although they do not deserve the love i will love them anyway charitably since my wrath has turned away from them why would we not deserve it i mean it's called grace right it's grace it's undeserved love hashem loves us what's the word infinitely and unconditionally okay so we read there is a number six i do want to read um number six and number seven this is this is just a few comments on these verses that we read so we better understand them hashem through the prophet hoshea encourages the jewish people to repent for they have stumbled due to their transgression that's what the verse is referring to this refers to the assuring to the pains and the troubles that they endured because of their sin the verse thus refers to chuva the truth itself is what brought about i'm sorry refers to true that is brought about by distress in other words it was the distress that was the active ingredient in bringing about the truth nevertheless scripture goes on to state that if the jewish people do truth on this level hashem will shower them with love we see then that even truva that's done as a reaction to personal suffering brings about hashem's love provided the truth is to hashem that's the condition meaning that it's sincere hashem loves the continent with generosity with undeserved love meaning unconditional love infinite love since the penitence and motivation for repenting was not his love of hashem nevertheless hashem loves him it's as acceptable okay and the last comment here oh i don't we didn't read michele michele is proverbs chapter 3 verse 12. it says for the lord chastens the one he loves as a father placates his child rashi mentions there what does it mean a father placates his child he desires to benefit his son or his daughter and he placates the child after striking him with a stick so will the benefit be pleasant to you after the smiting so the smiting are the tsar is the hopefully the wake up call and you wake up hashem is very happy this is what the father wants so here number seven and below the verse teaches that if the sinner responds you're responding to the admonishment you mean you're waking up you're doing chuva hashem will look upon the person with favor in the same way that a father looks favorably upon his child who has responded to his admonishment okay so i decided to stop here you know i figured this was enough calling me enough material for today's lesson i didn't want to go too fast and we'll continue bizrat hashem next sunday same time same bat channel uh same zoom channel for those that are on zoom and those are on youtube you'll uh check in and at this point i take questions from the uh the zoom crowd and i just want to sign off on the camera to have a great life a great life and we'll see you next week call two of all the blessings to you [Music] is