Teshuva Isn’t Starting Over—It’s Coming Home - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

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

The young couple, they got married with the hopes, dreams, aspirations of building a loving, caring, beautiful Jewish home. And their dreams were met. They grew closer to one another. They began to appreciate one another. There were small gifts and notes and moments and walks. It was a special, special time in their life. And it endured for a year or two. But then a baby was born and then there were parnassa stresses and there were other challenges and slowly but surely life began to get into the way of their relationship. Fast forward 15 years later. They were barely holding on. Between this child's challenges and that bill that had to be paid and so many other moving pieces, the couple had drifted apart and they were literally two people living in one house. And then it was their anniversary. They got a babysitter even though it was hard to find one and they took money that they didn't have and they went out to eat. And they're sitting in this

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1. 0:05The young couple, they got married with the hopes, dreams, aspirations of building a loving, caring,…
2. 0:36life began to get into the way of their relationship. Fast forward 15 years later. They…
3. 1:06beautiful restaurant. There's candlelight and they look at one another and they begin to reminisce about…
4. 1:40Every day in slichos, we say the following pasuk. It's so simple, it's so pashut, we…
5. 2:11and we drift further and further from one another. We need to look at the Ribono…

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