DovBer Pinson: The Jewish People's Path of Teshuva

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[Music] It is really my privilege and pleasure to be speaking to somebody who I've known for a couple months already, but really your Torah has really animated me specifically over the last couple weeks. Rough Bear Pinson, thank you so much for joining today. >> So, I wanted to talk about the concept of Cheshua. We start every year talking about tshouva and we have this childlike about tshouva and we have this childlike conception of chuva which is taking your lists of what's right and what's wrong and squaring up our lives to see how many you know I don't know points checklist I'm doing this wrong the but I'd like to submit and really hear your thoughts and reflect on this particular moment and what tshoua means particularly in the aftermath of these these world changing events with we see anti-semitism coming we see uh anti-semitism coming we see uh divisiveness within the Jewish community and I sometimes feel like the normal lens that we have for tshoua is very insufficient in moments like this because it presupposes that we have the right checklist and I want to begin by asking you in a moment like this how do you think we should if at all be refraraming what it means is to do tshuva. >> It's a very good question. You know kazal say the sages say that

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2. 6:10not that it's not >> I think we we call I grew up this way. >>…
3. 12:17there's the positive response to that or like the deeper spiritual response to this postmodern idea…
4. 18:27then it's if it's conscious the individuals of Cla the individuals of of the collective could…
5. 24:34that's that's antithetical to what I'm trying to say because it's it it's a revolution from…
6. 30:40also the the world and the and the world more the more the more insular world…
7. 36:46and it's like okay that's a Zionist story at the Zionist story. It doesn't really matter…
8. 42:56>> for you as a person, as a lecturer. How did this shift, if at all,…
9. 49:05isol the the collective of all of us is always righteous always pure it's always holy…
10. 55:11Just engage. And then becomes part of the bigger conversation which is that the world is…

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