Daily Tanya Sunday 24th Tamuz Igeres Hateshuvah Chapter 8 Part 2: True repentance enables reconnection

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1.      Restoration of the Soul

After one’s spirit is purified, one’s soul can return to God, ascending higher and reconnecting with its divine source much as it was before being sent into the physical world.

2.      The Process of Complete Repentance

True repentance enables this reconnection and is considered a state of spiritual unity, restoring the soul to a perfect closeness with the Divine.

3.      The Higher Level of Repentance (Teshuvah Ilah)

This elevated form of repentance follows the lower repentance. As explained in the Zohar, it involves engaging with Torah study and divine love and awe.

4.      Superiority of Penitents

Those who return through sincere repentance achieve an even greater closeness to God than the perfectly righteous, as their heartfelt yearning draws them nearer with even greater strength.

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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