Throw Out Everything You Thought About Teshuvah - Moadim On Fire

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

[Music] I think it's safe to say that when most people hear the words chuva, their knee-jerk reaction is to take a massive mental microscope out and start replaying in their head every single slip up from the last year. All the lash you said without thinking the braas you mumbled half asleep where you didn't say at all. The stuff you saw you probably shouldn't have seen. the things you did, the places you went, the choices you regret, and suddenly Chuvo becomes this dark and heavy and Chuvo becomes this dark and heavy and shamefilled experience, sort of like a spiritual audit that you're pretty sure you're failing. But what if I told you we've been looking at it wrong this whole time? What if there's a completely different way to look at it? I want to share with you a perspective, one that I don't think is just inspiring, but I believe can flip the whole experience on its head. I want to start with a pretty seemingly bizarre writes in writes in that during the you know, you want to know a little piece of advice as to help you out in the days of chuva. So right there, if I would pause and I would ask you what you think he would say, you would probably guess he's going to say something like be mock or be extra careful about doubting or learning or be extra careful with or not hurting other people's feelings. That's not what he says. You know what the says? He says, "Even if the whole year

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1. 0:04[Music] I think it's safe to say that when most people hear the words chuva, their…
2. 1:41says? He says, "Even if the whole year you aren't mockbid to eat only, which means…
3. 3:48entrusted to light up this world and I'm not sure if I did it enough. I'm…
4. 5:52rewards than any other demographic on Earth. And don't get me wrong, I'm all in for…
5. 7:56in me. It's about saying hashem you were banking on me. You had faith in me.…
6. 9:58Don't go anywhere." He rolls down his window and he says in Hebrew, the man hobbles…
7. 12:01class, the door opens and a boy named Noah walks in. Now, Noah was not your…
8. 14:04soldiers and Hashem's army carrying a mission the entire world needs us to fulfill. And when…
9. 16:09easy. Here I am, this Jewish girl who's still keeping, who's still keeping, she's walking around…
10. 18:14fewest but the proudest. That's the mentality of a Jew on fire. That's the mentality we…

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