Teshuvah Without Despair: Turning Failure Into Growth | Rabbi Blum Anchel

Shalom, I like to talk about a wonderful mitzvah that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us and it's called teshuvah. Someone God forbid fell into a sin against God. So, what should he do? So, the first thing of course is regret, but he should not be depressed cuz depression itself is a sin and it can cause other problems. >> [music] >> And the next thing he should do is what's called vidui. He should He should verbalize and admit to God that he did the sin. And the next thing is he should take it upon himself never to do it again. And he does that by making strategies to prevent to help him to avoid doing the sin in the future. And as a matter of fact, he can console himself by saying [music] that he will bounce when he bounces back, it will be even better than he was before. Now, of course, if someone does teshuvah out of love of Hashem, so the sins even become mitzvot. What a wonderful mitzvah it is. But there is one problem and that is that sometimes he teshuvah and even Yom Kippur are not enough. The person has to undergo certain [music] suffering. So, what do you do to prevent that? So, the Gemara Berachot gives the solution. The Gemara Berachot says that if [music] you increase your Torah learning, then that takes away the need for any kind of suffering. [music] And if we make up our minds that we're going to learn extra Torah and we're going to make [music] strategies, so then Baruch Hashem, Hakadosh Baruch Hu made a plan for us how we can become much better than we were before. [music] And that merit Hakadosh Baruch Hu should answer our prayers and help us with all our service of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Thank you.