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0:02 It's great. All right, so I'll say good morning. 0:13 Good morning. this morning in the introduction to T'shuvah. 0:22 And as Dr. just reminded me today is the today. 0:30 So a tremendous opportunity to learn the rest of Torah on his site his precious and beautiful and holy soul should have an to I'm sure advocate for Israel on high to bring the light continues in his beautiful poetic form. 0:49 He says in the name I want on the handout that I sent out on my page four. 0:56 But I believe that's where we left off. 0:58 Um in the name of the name of the Note I I I says I I find myself ultimately Now note that means almost like predisposed. 1:11 Predisposed leaning to I find myself constantly leaning think about and to speak all about T'shuvah. 1:20 Remember again what we see even though with Cook has not offered us a definition yet, but we clearly see just from the way that he's writing that T'shuvah is so much more than a simply a repentance process. 1:31 It's so much more than the process to deal with sin, but rather something bigger. 1:35 I find myself constantly leaning and and and to think about this, to talk about this. 1:41 How they about Torah and the word There is so much written in the Torah and the word all about T'shuvah. 1:53 Right? So Cook is saying over there is probably no concept in that is as heavily discussed that is as heavily focused on than the concept of T'shuvah. 2:04 Page six. He says the word the This is amazing. 2:07 The word the word the word I'm dying for the word to mean And ultimately again yet yet in our contemporary time the whole matter of T'shuvah is still something that is so hidden and requires explanation. 2:22 So I'll say and this is amazing. 2:24 On one hand you have no concept that is as heavily discussed as heavily spoken about, as heavily you know, focused on in the word the word the word and yet we don't understand it. 2:38 We don't understand it. 2:39 I will say we're going to talk about this. 2:41 The concept of T'shuvah itself is one that is profoundly counterintuitive because the way the the way right the way the way the world works right the way the world works is, you know, one of Newton's laws right that that every 2:55 every every event every action creates a corresponding reaction. 3:01 So the way the world works is simply cause and effect. 3:04 T'shuvah goes against the very notion of cause and effect. 3:08 T'shuvah says you could take an event and you could reverse it. 3:11 You could take an event and you could undo it. 3:14 You could take an event that occurred in the past and you could fundamentally change what it is. 3:18 Remember without even getting into it, but just think about this as an example. 3:22 You might talk about the distinction between T'shuvah may T'shuvah may T'shuvah that is done out of fear versus T'shuvah that is done out of love. 3:30 Leaving aside what that actually means, what the mechanics of that are. 3:33 Just think about this for a second. 3:35 If you do T'shuvah out of fear, what does that do? 3:38 The word says it transforms your intentional into accidental ones. 3:43 Incredible. If you do T'shuvah motivated out of love, which is the highest level of T'shuvah, what does it do? 3:49 It turns your into ones. 3:52 into Now I will say try explaining that one. 3:57 Try explaining that one. 3:59 It doesn't make any sense. 4:00 In this world the one thing you can never What's the one thing you never do in this world? 4:04 One thing you can't do. 4:07 You can't You can't All right, two things you can't do. 4:09 Right? You can't You can't You can't You also can't change the past. 4:14 Right? Right? You You can't change the past. 4:18 One of those I can think about the past. 4:20 I can grow from the past. 4:21 I can learn from the past. 4:22 I can regret the past. 4:24 The one thing you can't do is I'll say, you know, if if I look back at yesterday like, you know what uh I shouldn't have said that thing. 4:31 I shouldn't have done that thing. 4:32 I wish I would have maximized that hour. 4:34 Okay, I'll do better today, but you can't change it. 4:37 Yet T'shuvah says you can. 4:41 T'shuvah says you can change your past. 4:42 You can rewrite your past. 4:44 You can recategorize all of So Cook says it's incredible to think about that there is so much ink that has been spilled about T'shuvah and yet as we stand here today we don't understand it. 4:56 We don't understand it. 4:57 He goes on and says the word How much that the word means she the word the word the word So So I'll say so in in this context it means like literature. 5:11 Literature which ultimately again also I will say you'll see sometimes and this is really fascinating. 5:17 The word Cook writes in such advanced Hebrew. 5:22 Right? He doesn't He's He's not just simply using the word He uses the word which is part of also what what makes the word just a little bit a little bit complicated. 5:35 So So literally again is is If you look like in modern Hebrew it means literature. 5:42 Means literature. So ultimately but here is the word literature. 5:45 So the word the word she the word So the question over here So literature literature which delves into all the different areas of life in which there is the word which literally means song which means joy and life. 6:05 So literature which covers everything the word the word the word the word the word has not been able to shed sufficient light into this incredible The word means like a repository a storehouse of life. 6:25 So he's talking about the idea that you have a concept called T'shuvah which you're going to we're going to see. 6:30 T'shuvah is one of those concepts that existed before the world was created. 6:33 Whatever this means. Right? 6:34 So T'shuvah existed before the T'shuvah Torah existed before the world was created. 6:39 There's so much in Torah and the word the word the word the word the word So much literature and yet we still don't understand it. 6:49 Nothing has completely shed light on this dramatic dynamic. 6:54 Listen to this. The word the word the word the word In reality we have not even fully begun to really explore the true depths of T'shuvah. 7:05 The word the word the word the word To understand its nature and ultimately again its value. 7:12 The word the word the word even from the word the word even from the side of Now what's a word? 7:20 A word is Jewish liturgy. 7:23 Liturgy poetry poetry song even from the from the Jewish poetic song from the song perspective where often we delve into the most beautiful and esoteric aspects of the word the word the word it inspires us, you know, without end. 7:40 The word the word the word So I'll say So we don't understand T'shuvah fully from a spiritual perspective. 7:50 We don't understand T'shuvah fully from a behavioral perspective. 7:54 The word the word the word And specifically what we don't fully grasp is how to apply T'shuvah to the new realities of our lives. 8:06 Incredible. It's absolute absolutely absolutely incredible the way Cook without even speaking about what the concept of T'shuvah is fundamentally focusing ultimately on how profound and overwhelming and overreaching it is and how we truly don't grasp. 8:21 Let's finish the Let's finish the the intro today. 8:24 I know he Therefore Cook says I know he the word the word the word the word the word the word the word Therefore Cook says I am compelled literally means like pushed. 8:38 I am compelled from my inner essence to speak about T'shuvah. 8:44 I have to speak about this. 8:47 Now you understand what's what's compelling What's compelling him? 8:50 What's compelling him is really two things. 8:52 Number one, the centrality of this concept and number two, the fact that no one understands it. 8:58 So Cook feels this almost as like his moral obligation to shed light on this, to explain this dynamic. 9:07 The word the word the word the word the word the word the word And if Cook says but yet then I think about this and I am almost like repelled back by my thoughts. 9:17 The word means like the like to pull away. 9:19 I'm pulled away internally. 9:22 Why? He says listen to this. 9:24 The word the word the word the word the word Am I really worthy Am I really worthy of delving into T'shuvah? 9:33 You know, sometimes certain things are so profound that you kind of have to leave them alone in their profundity. 9:42 You have to let them be. 9:43 You just have to let them be. 9:45 So here he says on one hand I feel this incredible push to speak about T'shuvah, to explore T'shuvah, to understand T'shuvah. 9:51 And then I think to myself am I worthy of this? 9:55 Am I worthy of this? 9:56 He goes on and says, "How do I look at word chuva?" 10:02 So, again, the great men of past generations spoke about chuva. 10:06 How do we have a seed so great men of past generations they spoke about chuva. 10:18 What right do I have to add my insights to the greatest mystery of the universe after much greater men of previous generations put pen to paper in an effort to explain this and yet never fully did. 10:34 What right it's almost like a like a universe like an arrogance. 10:38 What right do I have to involve myself in this process? 10:41 Look what he has to say is beautiful. 10:48 The cook says at the same time happiness yet at the same time nothing. 10:54 Nothing could hold me back from fulfilling what I feel is my greatest inner work. 11:02 The most isn't incredible. 11:04 You know this this this struggle this first time you see like this multiple layers of Jews just we just struggle right there's just multiple layers of struggle over here. 11:13 Struggle to understand what chuva is and then should I really be the person who is commenting on this who's talking about this is teaching this but yet how can I not? 11:22 I can't I can't hold myself back. 11:23 Last page page eight. 11:24 He says I am compelled. 11:29 I am compelled to speak about chuva. 11:32 The and specifically from a from like a literature perspective in other words to explain the mechanics and to explain actually the details the mercy how do we do this? 11:47 To explain the essence of chuva for us contemporarily. 11:57 And how does chuva actualize in life? 12:02 The how does chuva come to life both in the life of the individual and the life of the nation? 12:11 This says of cook is what I feel is my sacred task. 12:14 Maybe I'm worthy maybe I'm not worthy but one thing is clear I can't abstain from this holy mission. 12:22 What say that concludes the introduction to chuva. 12:25 We'll stop over here for today. 12:37 Yes yes I'll I'll I'll check out it is on Safari also so I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and resource it and see if it gets them.
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