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0:00 All right, say good morning. 0:02 Good morning. Let us begin. 0:04 We are continuing. Maybe we'll even finish today. 0:07 No, we're not going to finish today. 0:08 Perrick al of otherwise we'd have to rush a little bit, I think. 0:13 So, we are picking up on page uh 12. 0:18 A really beautiful piece here. 0:19 So, again, so the the Rafuk writes his father. 0:27 So after remember what we he called now what's chvativis is as you talked about before this innate chuva uh and so remember again there are two different forms of innate chuva there's chuva guffness and chuva and chvativis nafis so again 0:48 innate physical chuva innate spiritual chuva and arav cook says we move to something a little bit deeper what he calls which I guess for lack of a better term what we'd call is faithbased cha what's faith-based chuva this is very 1:04 beautiful it is a cha that is motivated from literally tradition and religion much of Judaism is very much focused on the concept of chuva Right? 1:22 Much of Judaism is very much focused on this of chuva. 1:26 How chuva works that chuva works. 1:29 What chuva is what chuva is able to accomplish. 1:36 The Torah promises that if you do chuva, you will be forgiven. 1:43 And I will say this is one of the tenants of our faith that if I do chuva at the end of the day I will be forgiven. 1:53 So this is very beautiful. 1:54 So what is saying over here is saying is in general right we are we are confident to take on things we know we can accomplish and reticent to take on things that we feel we can't accomplish. 2:12 That's just human nature. 2:13 Okay, there are exceptions. 2:14 There are people who are very like, you know, goal oriented and they're willing to take on everything. 2:18 But most of us, even if we're not totally risk averse at the end of the day, still want to take on things that we have a shot at accomplishing. 2:26 Cook says something amazing. 2:27 A lot of times the reason we don't become Bali Chuva is because we don't believe we can actually be forgiven. 2:35 I don't Okay, I know about Chuva. 2:37 I've learned about Chuva. 2:38 I've heard about Chuva. 2:39 It's fantastic. It's beautiful. 2:40 It's not for me. 2:41 I'm too broken. I'm too damaged. 2:44 I'm too far gone. 2:46 And of Cook says there's nothing further from the truth. 2:49 Chuva is accessible to anyone and everyone. 2:52 Chuva amunes, right? This faith-based chuva is a chuva that is motivated by the belief in chuva itself. 3:02 I believe in chuva. 3:03 I believe that I can be forgiven. 3:05 Refuk goes on writes. 3:06 He says, I believe that the collective sin of national sin and my individual sins can be wiped out by chuva. 3:21 So we'll say isn't this incredible that that so often the reason I don't really become about is because I don't believe in it. 3:28 It's not that I don't believe in chuva. 3:30 I I believe in chuva. 3:31 What don't I believe in? 3:32 I don't believe in chuva for me. 3:36 And chuva emunis is a chuva that is motivated in the belief that chuva could even work for someone like me. 3:44 Chuva can work for no matter how compromised we are. 3:47 And chiva can work for me as an individual no matter how compromised I am. 3:54 You know the prophets are filled with the incredible with with with testaments or descriptions of the incredible power of chuva itself. 4:11 So say this is very beautiful. 4:14 So really RV cook says RVuk says the entire real construct of chuva the biblical construct of chuva is fundamentally built on the notion of chuva. 4:26 Now if you look at footnote number 15 over here in in the addition that I that I sent you. 4:31 So he says over here he says So essentially in the footnote he explains as follows says how do you know that chuva is a possibility right how do you know that chuva is a real possibility that's some like I don't 5:05 know pie in the sky idea he says if it wasn't the tora Right? 5:10 How so much of is filled with the prophets telling us do this, don't do this. 5:18 How much of the Torah is filled with telling us do this, don't do this. 5:24 The only way those commands make sense is if you have free choice. 5:29 And ultimately against the once I believe I have free choice then chuva amunes says believe in the power of chuva for yourself. 5:39 Don't just believe in chuva in the abstract but believe in chuva. 5:43 Believe in the power of chuva for yourself. 5:48 As we delve deeper into this chuva there are there there are details many many details. 6:01 And ultimately again to fully understand all of its principles requires an incredible amount of in-depth exploration say so this is now our sek's construct it's our second it's our second level of chuva but I would really call it it's like 6:17 really the third because the first category of chuvativis was broken into two and now so again says that one of the greatest pitfalls in life is we believe in the power of chuva. 6:29 We just often don't believe in the power of chuva for ourselves. 6:32 Chuva amun says believe in the power of chuva to affect personalistic absolution and forgiveness in yourself no matter what you have done. 6:44 There is nothing that chiva can't fix. 6:47 Now again there are caveats to that. 6:50 Sometimes cha is able to accomplish x and sometimes able to accomplish y. 6:54 But there is no such thing as chuva having the inability to forgive. 6:59 Chuvaun means I believe in the power of chuva to absolve me to cleanse me from all that is broken. 7:07 Incredible. Let's at least begin to let's take a peek at the next level. 7:11 The third and final category of chuva in this in this construct says is what he calls chviklas. 7:18 Chva. Now this is very interesting. 7:20 So we would call this I guess I guess for lack of a better term you'd call it intellectual right of the now say it's interesting because you know generally especially like when we learn so often it sounds strange but like 7:35 not not but again it's all very much based on the same Torah sanist on the same like deeper hidden dimension the pimius of Torah. 7:44 So often when we speak about intellect, you know, intellect is often seen as the like I don't want to call it the enemy of growth, but to a certain degree sometimes intellect holds us back a little bit. 7:57 So it's interesting to see that in Rav Cook's chum model, remember this is a progression. 8:02 This is a progression. 8:04 So it starts with innate physical chuva. 8:07 Then it goes on to innate spiritual chuva. 8:10 Then it goes on to chuva of amuna or amuna chuva. 8:14 And now kind of as we're making our way up, we get to this last level of what he calls. 8:20 So what is this? 8:21 And this we'll just read this line that we'll pick up with this. 8:32 So again so beautifully before we even get into defining what it is it's important to understand that when does it occur this is you could only get to cha after you've acquired the previous levels you need chvaun once you pass 8:54 all these other levels then you're able to go ahead and get to because sorry thank you because because ultimately again you've gotten to this highest level what this highest level actually is to be continued tomorrow. 9:14 So stop over there for today and tomorrow we will finish parak alif this last this last dag of chuva and again then we'll round out our first chva construct from cook incredible Skyak.
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