Turn Your Mistakes Into Miztvahs

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

Okay, so we're taught that when a person does chuva, real change, it actually turns all of their mistakes and their sins of the past into merits, into good deeds and mitzvahs. How does that work? I mean like there are bad things that you did, right? It's in the past, but you did them. How else do they change into good? So, the idea is like this. Imagine for a second you always drove like a maniac, road rage your whole life. And suddenly somebody like gets a clip of it and they post it online and this clip gets like millions of views and it's your face and you're driving like a maniac and you're watching this clip and the more you watch it the angrier you get and the more you watch it the more upset you get and more ashamed and more embarrassed and the more you decide I'm done, I'm never driving like that ever again, I'm going to become a new person and you do. You become a whole new person and driving

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1. 0:00Okay, so we're taught that when a person does chuva, real change, it actually turns all…
2. 0:32calmly and carefully and you're just your your your character has changed. And up in heaven…
3. 1:02to other people." And you get so upset by it. You're like, "I can't believe I…

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