Questions for today:
What is the scientific description of ‘teshuva’, return, and what are some things that we can look at to better understand it?
We are working to understand the idea of repentance, how we could negatively affect our relationship with the creator and how we could rekindle it.
The Zohar illuminates this by saying that the word teshuva has the hebrew word "toshuv", which means 'return', and then the letter "Hei" which appears two times in the Creator's name.
What we are doing is returning the letter 'Hei' to the Creator's name; the lower level 'Hei' through the mundane level of teshuva, and then we return the higher Hei with a more supernal level of teshuva.
To understand this better, they say a Jew answers every question with a question. All jokes aside, if we want to delve into something deeply in order to answer it, we dig in with questions.
So let’s ask; there are some sins they say a person could never be forgiven for, yet then it says there's nothing that stands in the way of repentance?
On a deeper level we find sins that the Torah says a person is going to die from, yet we see people doing them and living for long years?
As we delve into these questions to answer them, hopefully we'll get a great idea of the bond of a Soul with the Creator and how we could solidify this, always.
202 7 Tanya Tammuz 13 ~ m231 8 Tammuz 18
Tanya book 3, Ch 4, pt1
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