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0:06 All right. Good morning. 0:08 Good morning. Let us let us begin. 0:10 We are beginning today sashm perk giml in oroso sachuba. 0:15 I apologize. I just I just I just uh posted it on the chat. 0:19 I'm sorry. We forgot to post it last night. 0:22 So this is also incredibly interesting. 0:24 So if cooked rice is the title of the chapter is okay. 0:33 So let's analyze these terms. 0:34 Cook says as follows. 0:42 So there's one form of chva where it's what we'll call targeted chuva. 0:47 What is targeted cha? 0:48 Targeted chva means that it is a chva that is focused ultimately again on one particular sin or a couple of particular averas doesn't have to be one of those but the point over here is I know that I did something 0:58 in particular and now I am working on the process to address that particular a person goes ahead and puts his opposite in other words literally means I'm cognizant of it I'm cognizant of my I know exactly what it it is 1:18 that I did and ultimately again I have remorse over it and I feel sad I'm distressed I'm upset I'm disappointed I'm in pain over the fact that I got ins snared in sin if you notice over here and and puts 1:40 the put puts this out in the in the in the footnote as well so remember goes ahead and outlines the different steps for chuva. 1:52 So the first step for cha according to of course is has to be a recognition of of what I did. 1:58 If there's no recognition then there's no ability to truly do cha and then after that there's a sense of sense of remorse. 2:04 So I just want to point out that if you notice has many of the same similar types of steps. 2:09 Right? So cook's model ultimately again his idea is I put my sin opposite my face which literally means awareness cognition recognition I've done something wrong remorse. 2:28 Now it's interesting that in Ravok's model so remorse isn't just that okay I feel bad that I did it but it's that the actual commission of the sin causes me pain. 2:39 I'm sad I'm sad about this. 2:41 I'm sad that I got ins snared in this and again what's my goal and this is really beautiful saying my goal ultimately is to unentangle my soul from the snare from the net of sin when I commit the we know 3:04 this just from our own lives when I commit the so that a like it encompasses me it engulfves me I'm like stuck in the net. 3:12 I'm stuck in this sin. 3:15 What's the beauty of chuva? 3:16 Chuva is the process through which I free myself from the snare from the trap of sin. 3:22 That's the most beautiful thing. 3:23 And once I get myself out of that net then suddenly I have the ability to expand. 3:28 I have the ability to grow. 3:30 I have the ability to see things in a different way to go in different directions in life. 3:35 So this process of cha says is again there's recognition of the sin there's remorse for the sin a sense of pain a sense of pain that I'm wrapped up in this sin and then once I have that then I can 3:49 begin the process of actual or that is the process of actual but the goal ultimately is to free myself from the net of sin this is beautiful until I free myself from the servitude of sin. 4:06 They'll say, "What a what an incredibly profound formulation because sin is a form of servitude. 4:13 I'm a servant to my wants. 4:15 I'm a servant to my desires. 4:16 I'm a servant to all different kinds of things. 4:18 So what's cha in a certain sense is freedom is freedom. 4:23 I am freeing myself from the shackles of sin." 4:30 So here is so beautiful. 4:33 And with chva with real chva I really begin to feel freedom holy freedom and again it's so pleasant you know the s the soul itself the itself of course on the most basic level yearns to be free allows my soul 4:51 to feel that sense of freedom and ultimately I continue forward and I'm healed now sayuk is bringing like a lot of different a lot of different elements into this as well. 5:03 He quotes over here in the footnote a beautiful where the says chuva is beautiful. 5:13 Why? Because ultimately again it brings healing to the world. 5:17 So there's a lot of discussion about this but the maral prag has a beautiful work called chuva which means the path of chuva and he explains what does this mean that the old chuva brings healing to the world. 5:32 What does that what does that even mean? 5:34 And and the marasa so beautifully he says that what does it mean when a person is ill right? 5:39 If a person is ill that means there's a disruption to the natural normal flow of their body. 5:46 What does healing do? 5:47 The goal of healing is to restore you to what you were that that's the goal to restore you to your baseline that you were before the episode. 5:55 So amazing enough cook says that we have as explains that we have inherent kusha and when we sin we we kind of lose our way and then what chua does is chuva is able to restore us to that baseline that 6:10 we were at before the sin. 6:11 Now of course is chuva has the ability to do so much more than restore you to your baseline but at least on a on a basic level there is the possibility of chuva to literally bring me back to what I 6:22 was before the actual here is just extolding all the virtues of chuva. 6:28 the so first of all even before we go on just seeing the beautiful way that Rafok writes about cha makes you want it more than anything right this notion because we could all relate to this idea that when I commit 6:44 an I'm stuck I'm really stuck I'm ins snared in this and I feel sad about it and there's pain over it and all these different realities that is describing are things that we actually feel in our own lives and The 6:58 notion about the ability to engage in a process that frees me from the servitude of sin that allows me to actually feel the holy the freedom of holiness that allows me to heal myself is incredible is incredible. 7:15 He goes on. Now he gets even a bit more poetic and literally again the the beams of light of the son of the son of right of the son of kindness. 7:32 Turn the page to page 19 to page 20. 7:36 Ultimately the highest form of love is ultimately again will send their beams towards him and the individual ultimately again will move forward and be enriched. 7:52 Now now what is this referring to? 7:53 What what are these what are these beautiful what are these beautiful beams of light of? 7:58 So remember, if you think about it, what's the greatest in this world? 8:02 The greatest in this world is is the ability to write my mistakes, the ability to fix my wrongs, the ability to go ahead and take everything that I've messed up in life and rechan it and retool it and redirect it 8:18 and make it into something different is the most incredible thing in the world. 8:22 So when a person becomes about cha a person engages in the process of chouva he begins to feel that light and said the imagery is so is so profound right you go outside on a sunny day and you know if 8:34 you lift your if you lift your face to the sky a little bit you see just you feel the warmth of the sun it is such a beautiful and comforting feeling cook says that's the feeling of shva that's the feeling 8:47 of chauva if you enga it's so beautiful if you if you if you engage In the process ultimately again as you're being healed you will feel those beautiful rays of shining down upon say this is so beautiful and as you 9:11 keep going through life right as you keep going through this process of chva you'll find yourself filled with joy and inner sati chva is fulfilling. 9:23 Chuva is fulfilling. When I am engaged in the process of chuva, even before I've reached the finish line, right? 9:29 Even before I become quote unquote like a bal chuva, but I'm in the process of chuva, there is such a sense of inner happiness and such a sense of inner fulfillment. 9:39 Now, interestingly enough, he says, Okay. 9:52 So, first of all, says and by the way, in addition to all of these feelings of happiness and joy and everything else, there is something else which is an inner pain. 10:02 There is right there. 10:02 There is this inner there is this internal heartbreak that a person has. 10:11 All right. So, we're going to stop with this for today. 10:20 We'll pick up with this piece more tomorrow. 10:23 We're going to see something really beautiful. 10:25 Rufk describes over here how the heartbreak is part of the process. 10:31 Interestingly enough, you only experience feelings of sadness over something if it was important to you. 10:39 Right? Just think about this for just a moment. 10:40 Right? If I had a nickel in my pocket and I lost the nickel, again, bar hashem, I I would eventually say for most of us, no, no one's giving it a second thought. 10:49 Okay, whatever. I don't know what I do with my nickel, right? 10:52 Or think about some little some little thing in your life where if it happens, it just doesn't matter to you. 10:56 Why? Because again, the nickel the nickel is not significant. 11:00 It's not significant. I lose a $100 bill. 11:03 That's significant. That's significant. 11:05 If cook says something amazing even as I go through the process of chuva and ultimately again I feel all of this beautiful inner sati the raise of divine I feel to all this beautiful stuff at the same time in the 11:17 process of chuva there is always a sense of heartbreak and sadness it's always there it's always there why is it always there because at the end of the day I've made poor decisions compromised parts of his soul and as a 11:35 result and as a result there are parts of me that are still damaged. 11:39 Now again chuva could repair it, chuva could heal it but if cook says those feelings of pain are beautiful. 11:48 Why are they beautiful? 11:49 Because I recognize that what the severity of what I did which means that my nishama is important to me my personalistic holy holiness is important to me. 11:59 If a person sins and they're like whatever so what does that show? 12:03 Number one, they don't understand the gravity of what they've done. 12:05 Number two, they don't understand the impact of what they've done. 12:07 Number three, they don't understand the nature of the nama that they have. 12:10 But if a person feels pain when they sin in the aftermath of sin, even in the process of cook says that's beautiful because that shows you really understand what you've done. 12:20 You really understand what you've compromised. 12:23 And what that also means is you will do the work you need to do in order to get back to where you were and become even better. 12:32 All right, we'll stop over for today. 12:33 More on that piece. 12:34 We'll pick up with that piece of tomorrow.
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