Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - The World of Prayer: Repentance

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Uh we're discussing today the laws of chuva, right? Of course, chodesh Elul we are approaching, you know, Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur, the Yamim Noraim, and one of the great themes of this time period is chuva. Um there are many reasons, many reasons for this. Um we're ending the year. We're approaching the end of the year, and there's a saying in the Gemara, rabbis tell us that everything really is going to ultimately be measured by the way you finish up, the way you close. Um practically speaking, it's a very, very helpful for us because not everybody can be consistent 12 months straight, no mistakes, Mr. Perfect. I mean, there are some Mr. Perfects out there, and um makes us feel, you know, a little bit inadequate sometimes, but I think those Mr. Perfects that Hashem put in the world are not here to break us. They're here to ultimately inspire us. There's a There's actually We'll get back to what I'm saying now, but there's a saying in the Gemara that says that, you know, we could all, so to speak, we all have a part of Moshe in us. We all have an aspect of Moshe Rabbeinu in us. So, you'll ask, we're all supposed to become the the next leader of the Jewish people. We'll have no people to lead. We'll all be leaders. So, the obviously the obvious application to such an idea is not that we all become Moshe Rabbeinu in a simple in the actual sense that we're all going to be leaders. We all have within us the opportunity and the ability to fulfill our potential. And if we fulfill our potential, then we have brought out that that Moshe Rabbeinu within. How Moshe Rabbeinu fulfilled his potential, we can also fulfill our potential. There's a famous story by Reb Zusha, one of the great Chassidic

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1. 0:21Uh we're discussing today the laws of chuva, right? Of course, chodesh Elul we are approaching,…
2. 3:35idea, meaning that of course we can do that. We can finish off the year strong…
3. 7:19the aveira, so to speak. And that's because it's comes before creation, and it is really…
4. 11:08Yet a higher level of fear of God is really better use the term awe and…
5. 14:51activity? What is the main mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah, which is a day of teshuvah? Who…
6. 18:36which is the the regret, the the suffering, the negativity, and although he has to keep…
7. 22:11only handle so much suffering at a time. So, we again, we see even in the…
8. 25:53details are are specific, so let's appreciate the story. It goes like this. Normally, during the…
9. 29:36a person doesn't want to always initiate. A person doesn't want to think that, you know,…
10. 33:17What did Hillel do? Hillel took him in. He made it easier. He took him in…

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