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Elul Inspiration For Yomim Noraim - PREMIUM TESHUVA

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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has many names. When we make a blessing, blessed are you God. Means he was, is, and he will be. God has a name, which means he's the master of all power. God has a name, master of legions. He has a name Shakai. Why when it comes to the month of El all of a sudden we use a new name for God, my beloved. I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me. Why don't we say I am for God and God is for me or an those are the more usual typical names of Hashem. Why in the context of the month of El do we specifically employ the phrasiology lei? Why in the month of L do we call God our beloved? Now I want to share with you a very important idea and this is not a politically correct idea but I unapologetically going to share with you the viewpoint of the Tyra that there's a special gift in this world that is the gift of chuva the gift of repentance and you have to understand that repentance we cannot take for granted because if somebody commits a sin somebody does something wrong. How can you uproot from the reality the wrongdoing? So the person who sinned should have to face some kind of penalty or cleansing process. But to say well I by the way do you know what chuva is? Many many people always hear the concept of chuva or we talk about choua but don't exactly know what are the mechanics and the details. What exactly is repentance? It's three easy steps. One, you have to stop sinning. You have to stop. If you're continuing to do it, there's no way to repent. There's no way to erase it. Stop. Number two, confess. Don't beat around the

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  1. 0:30has many names. When we make a blessing, blessed are you God. Means he was, is,
  2. 4:20I'm stopping to do it. Hashem has given us a gift that if we do that,
  3. 8:59category of relationship. Only the Jewish people are the children of God. Now all of mankind
  4. 13:20unintentional sin, you know. Somebody's in the they get a ticket at least in New York.
  5. 17:39the sin is transformed into a mitzvah says the is the message of I am for
  6. 22:36may it be your will God that we should have a lot of merits. So we
  7. 26:22people love doing mitzvah that we blow the chauffeur before and after we do it twice,
  8. 30:51mitzvah, that's a good deed that the person who was observant their whole life never did.
  9. 35:10and God transforms their sin into a good deed. When the Lord gives a good deed,
  10. 39:26because what that would that will be dynamite because the nishama as we mentioned of a

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