Last Minute TeShuva Before Rosh HaShanah

And she says, "Every single night we would hear my father crying to Hashem, asking for mercy, apologizing for what he did." Every single night, a person by the name of Stanislav Hoga, who is the Stanislav Hoga? In the year 1833, Stanislav Hoga published a seph named which is the same name as the holy book of the in fact this Hoga did not actually write this entire book. rather he took the Christian missionary Alexander McCall's book that was called the old paths and he rewrote that book with rabbitic lingo in such a way that they put it in different bookstores. They saw the name is the same name as the of the Prague. They expected something holy in there only to find out that this book is preaching idolatry. It's preaching Christianity. It's preaching things that are against the Torah. This was published in Hebrew, in English, in London, and it caused a lot of noise when one of the Torah leaders of the of the generation, Rabbi Mosh Mati, heard about this and the outcry that's happening in the community and how many people are falling trapped into this horrific book. He went on a task to find a that is going to write a response book and he found one in Russia named the of Kminit Kit. The rebal of Keminit wrote a sepha called Zerub to show the beauty of the Torah, to show the lies of the Christian missionaries and things calm down for a while. Years later in the city of Hwanda, a wealthy Jewish woman arrives at the bedin of was the father of the famous and this woman asked to see the rub so she can tell him a very important story. She told him, "I am the daughter of the author of He's my father." Now, everyone knew that this Stanisla was a Jew. What many didn't realize is that Stanisoga was not only not his real name, he was born In fact, his father was a and this was born into a kidic family. He was a prodigy already at an early age at the age of three years old. He already mastered the Hebrew language. He was an expert in language. He was an expert in Talmud. And he taught, he had a little school, little yeshiva for kids in Leita until one day something happened and he left his wife and uh wife and kids. He left the Jewish community. He left God. He converted to Christianity, became a Christian missionary and wrote this book. So the daughter is telling this is what happened. My father Ala Shalom when he was in Leita teaching little kids Torah, everyone loved him. because he was a Torah scholar. He knew what he was talking about. Kids would come out good. But then one day, somebody spread a false rumor about him that he's not really Torah observant. He's not really respecting the mitzvot. And unfortunately, the rumor spread like fire and people believed it. And before you know it, everyone took their kids out of his school to the point where we did not have money to eat. He got so angry at the community and how everyone believed this false rumor that he left the family. He left the Torah. He left the country. He went to London. In London, he wanted to take revenge against the Jewish people. So he joined the church and he converted to Christianity and became friendly with the Christian missionaries. But the Christian missionaries that were anti-Semitic that were trying to constantly do harm to the Jewish people, they didn't know how to debate them because they didn't know the language. They didn't know the rules. But now they have among them a Torah scholar, a former Torah scholar that knows not just the language is an expert in it. And within a few years, they raised him and they told him, "Listen, you got to start translating some of these works to rabbitic language." And he did it because he was interested in taking revenge to those people that hurt him. and eventually took Alexander McCall's book that was called the p the old path meaning it was a book making fun of the Torah and the old ways like they called the old testament and he wrote rewrote it in rabbitic language that everyone could understand that everyone from the Torah world that looks like it's authentic that looks like it's from a dua and even changed the name from the old path to to confuse people further as the daughter is telling the story to she's crying and she says I was originally initially raised alone by my mother eventually my mother married a German Torah scholar And we had a difficult uh past but we grew and we tried to forget that my father exists. But after many years, over 20 years later, I get a letter from my father. Shocked, I open up the letter and I see that my father is pleading for mercy. And he's saying to me, I know that I am despicable in your eyes and in every Jewish person's eyes because of the damage that I've caused as a result of that book. But I must tell you that my heart breaks from the regret that I have for what I did. And I beg you to please now in my old age to accept me back to accept my chuva and to have me live with you and your husband after discussing it with a husband. They agreed so long as he complied with the rules of the house, which is that he must look like a Jew, wear a beard again, Jewish clo, grow his pot again, cover his head, and stay away from things, if you will. Don't uh cause too much noise like the past because at the end of the day, people still suspected him. Maybe he's trying trying a new way of doing Christian missionary. And she says, "Every single night, we would hear my father crying to Hashem, asking for mercy, apologizing for what he did." Every single night. But one day, right around the time of El, my father is laying in bed and he calls my husband and I and he says, "My time in this world is nearly over and I want to tell you a story. A story that you don't know. You know about the book that I wrote that caused a lot of damage. You know that I've been trying to do Chuva for all these years, even writing articles against the missionaries, even publishing a book called The Controversy of Zion in 1845, highlighting all of the lies of the Christian missionaries and how they're anti-Semitic and they're arrogant and they're evil. But what you don't know is that this started before you were born. In fact, before I even knew how to read or write. years ago there was a big mlo between two Torah giants, the Yavitz andit. And my father was a Talmid of the Yavitz. Even though his RA was the Lublin, still he was in the favor of the Yavitz in this debate. And he saw how passionate the Yavitz was fighting against that he wrote a contress a short book insulting and he published it on the day that was my and he gave it as a gift to the Yavitz at the brit. The Yavitz was happy about this and blessed him and saying, "May this boy that just came into the world and had a be the exact opposite of so the Yavitz meant the blessing." But years later when everyone realized that was a that he wasn't following that he was it was already too late the blessing of the fell on me and at the moment where I was tested by Hashem with poverty with insults I fell and I opened up the gate for the Satan to fulfill this blessing that ended up being a curse and I became the opposite of he was I became the ultimate I declared war against Judaism from we learn a bunch of things number one we see that when they debate It could get fiery, but it's called a why because they're fighting for the truth and the truth is universal. Two, we see that sometimes can [clears throat] make a mistake. They can make a mistake. Number three, we see that there's a very significant difference between a and fighting evil. When this left the Torah, left Judaism, named himself. There was no Mak there. They was simply fighting evil. Why? He was preaching a new religion. He was preaching a new God. He was preaching things that are against the Torah. And therefore, there was no debating him. They were simply fighting evil. It's very important for a person to know the difference. [music]