Questions for today:
Why are there such stark differences in the instructions for returning to the Creator, in different Torah sources?
Yesterday we explained that the idea of repentance or, 'returning' to the Creator is fundamentally an expression of the essential bond that we have with the Creator.
With that, we can now understand the seemingly fragmented concepts on the topic.
The Talmud says that all you need to do is make a commitment for the future, but the laws on the topic say you have to confess the past.
None of the laws mention anything about fasting, but in the Torah it does.
Now we can understand it.
The core component of the returning to the Creator is just that, we return to the Creator. We say Creator, all I care about is you. I will do everything that you asked.
However, since part of that relationship is to have a clean slate and have a passionate relationship, so therefore there is a - not integral but a connected – component.
This component involves; confessing the past sins or bringing an offering in the temple. We don't have a temple now, so we can fast, or we can do acts of kindness.
197 2 Tanya Tammuz 08 ~ m225 2 Tammuz 12
Tanya book 3, Ch 1, Pt 2
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