Gates of Repentance Part 6 (Sha'arei Teshuva)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Thank you everyone. So picking up where where we left off last week in Gates of Repentance, Shaar HaTeshuvah, we were in middle of um we we just finished paragraph number nine and just to recap what we spoke about. The last thing we left off was we spoke about the importance we spoke about the importance of what the Gemara says Ashrei ish yirei Hashem praiseworthy is the man who fears God and we said that the Hakhamim tell us that when it says ish, the word ish being man, doesn't really only ex- it doesn't exclude women. Ish connotes youth. And what the pasuk is really saying is praiseworthy is the young person, man or praiseworthy is the young person, man or woman, that decides to change while they're young. You guys all remember that? Not to wait till you're old, the old, you know, mentality of like, you know, I'm young, YOLO, you know? Let me just do what I want to do now and then when I'm older I'll do hatati aviti pashati and I will sit at home and every Yom Kippur I will fast and I will fast on Mondays and Thursdays to erase my sins for the past and I'll do teshuvah and when I'm old age I'll go to shul every week, I'll go

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