The ART of A Blessing for Sincere Teshuva with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

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Heat. Heat. [Music] your sh. >> Okay. So the Mishna Buddhist says there's something called kavana which is focus focus of your hearts. Well, we all struggle with it in prayer. But then there's mitzvah, which is intention. Okay? Now, it means more than just having the mitzvah in mind. It means having in mind while you're doing the mitzvah, at least to start, why you're doing it. Why are we doing mitzvah? >> Because God said so. >> Perfect. Because God said so. Now let's just I want to explain to you how important that is. Okay. Um I I saw this in an article that Revit SV Wriggler wrote. Uh I mean it was a really sad story. The one of the top comedians in France. Okay. Guess what uh Persuasion was? Was he Jewish? Of course. There's we have a long history of comed comedians. So, one of the very top comedians in France, Jewish guy, he announced that he was Shemi Raim converting to Catholicism. Now, yeah, that's a little shocking. That doesn't happen that much. But listen to his story. Listen to what caused it. Okay? He said that, you know, he was he was farty and, you know, grew up kind of traditional, not religious, but traditional. And one time they were working walking by a church and uh Catholic church and the parents said, "Don't go in there. Don't go in there." So, not saying they were wrong. They

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1. 0:01Heat. Heat. [Music] your sh. >> Okay. So the Mishna Buddhist says there's something called kavana…
2. 3:11"Hashem has no form, but he's not an abstraction. Hashem is not an abstraction. How are…
3. 6:25feels so much. But we must we must do something to um to make that uh…
4. 9:48clear where it is, but I know I'm in here, right? Just be sincere. But what…
5. 13:33big, right? So, I'm not We can do anything, right? if Hashem helps us and if…
6. 16:48didn't have focus by the way At some point we'll do it. There's so much you…
7. 19:56glass of water. So you stop. Think what mitzvah am I about to do? Someone tell…
8. 24:29it's enough to have in mind adonacle. He's the master of everything. If you translate that…
9. 27:40Feel you're speaking to Hashem. Think about the meaning of those words and feel reverence. And…
10. 30:53I'll go slowly so you can really think about how regretful it is. And then we're…

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