Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
This Jewish Inspiration Podcast is dedicated to learning, understanding and enhancing our relationship with Hashem by working on improving our G-d given soul traits and aspiring to reflect His holy name each and every day. The goal is for each listener to hear something inspirational with each episode that will enhance their life.
You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of TORCH in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.
Welcome back my dear friends to day number 176. Thank you so much for your patience. We're on the bottom of page 921. What a great accomplishment. We are on the last day of the gate of repentance in the Treasure for Life edition of the Yeruch Hasidic and the Ways of the Righteous and here we resume on page 921. He says, people who are of true penitence are exceptionally humble.
He says, be careful. If you repented and someone else says, hey, you remember back in those days? You remember when you used to do this and that? And sometimes they bring it in a nasty way. Oh, you think you're holier than us, right? I remember when you did this and that. Don't pay attention to what they say or as parents would say, they're just jealous, right? Just know that this is a great merit to you.
Imagine this, every time you're embarrassed about your previous actions, you're rewarded for your teshuvah even more. The reward is even greater. You get interest on your interest, compounded interest for your teshuvah. It is a grave sin, our Torah teaches us, it is a grave sin for one to remind a penitent of his previous sins. Or to embarrass them in public in front of all their buddies. Oh, you remember when we did this? Remember we did that? Yeah, you think you did teshuvah, right?
And this is the verse we brought earlier. Let a man not wrong his fellow man. And now the final paragraph of the chapter, we're going to conclude the gate of repentance. For someone who is privileged to be a person of penitence, a penitent should pursue good deeds and keep himself far from the thoughts of this world. He should strengthen himself in the counsel of Hashem and take shelter in His shade, bear the yoke of Hashem's Torah and abide the shame and scorn of fools,
making himself as one, deaf and blind and dead, as it is written. Because for you, I have borne shame for Hashem. I'm embarrassed. I'm sorry that I made my mistakes. Hashem, I've come in closer to you. I've repented. I have atoned for my sins already. And now it's still getting thrown. I have made sackcloth my garment. And as for me, my prayer is to you, O Hashem, in a time of favor.
And here we conclude, my dear friends, the beautiful, lengthy, lengthy chapter of the gate of repentance. And this concludes day number 176. My dear friends, you can give yourselves a tremendous round of applause. God willing, next week we will resume with our previous chapters. I think we're up to the gate of flattery. And we will continue there, God willing, next week. So thank you all. This has been a wonderful journey. The gate of Teshuva, just as a summary,
the power of Teshuva is the greatest gift God has given us. The ability to change our lives. The ability for us to not say, you know what, that's just the way I am. That's just the way it is. And just give into it. No, you don't have to give into it. You can change. Each and every one of us, we can change. We should never say, well, that's just the way God made me. No. God gave you the talents. He gave you the skills.
He gave you the abilities. He gave you the flaws. And He gave you the virtues to accomplish greatness. And that needs to be our mission to transform our lives and to make ourselves the absolute best person we can become every single day. My dear friends, Hashem should bless us all that we should be successful in our own journey of Teshuva. Each and every one of us in our own little path, in our own little way to find in our heart
to change from all of our mistakes. Every person. There's nobody on earth who has ever lived this life that hasn't sinned. Including Moses. And he repented. And he sought out atonement for his sins. We need to do the same. Even though you, each and every one of you here sitting in the room, those of you watching here online, and online over there on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and all those other places, you're all righteous. Every person needs to find a way,
maybe there's one mistake I have done. Maybe there's one person I insulted, I need to go ask forgiveness. Maybe there's one sin that I've done between me and God privately that I need to confess to God privately and say, Hashem, you know what? I won't do this again. I'll make every effort to never sin in that way again. Whether it's things that I may have eaten, things that I may have acted, things that I may have performed, things that I may have neglected,
whatever it may be, each in their own way, nobody needs to publicly confess unless it's something you've done to someone in public, and then you need to have that public apology. My dear friends, thank you so much for this beautiful journey together. Have a terrific evening. Drive safely.
You've been listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe on a podcast produced by TORCH, the Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston. Please help sponsor an episode, so we can continue to produce more quality Jewish content for our listeners around the globe. Please visit torchweb.org to donate and partner with us on this incredible endeavor.