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Chabad Research Unit — ch haazinu — Ha'azinu 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — ch haazinu — Ha'azinu 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Free Summaries of Points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ד"ה שובה ישראל תש"ל בלתי מוגה‬ Published for ‘Shabbat Teshuvah’ 8 Tishrei 5784, 23 September 20231 DIMENSIONS OF REPENTANCE HE HAFTORAH FOR THE ‘SHABBAT OF REPENTANCE’ T BEGINS “Return Israel to Hashem your G-d... 2 On the other hand, there is also another way of understanding this: man and woman are the beginning of existence because the only way that all Creation has meaning is by the fact of Adam and Eve being created and that they call on the entirety of existence to recognise G-d. Through this we can understand why the animal offering is able to atone for a person’s sin, because the source of the animal which came before man is on a very exalted spiritual level, from the world of Tohu (Chaos), higher than the spiritual root of man which is from the world of Tikkun (Repair). The Torah answered “let him bring a guilt offering and he will be atoned.” Then they asked the Holy One the same question and He replied: “let him do Teshuvah (Repentance) and he will be atoned.” It is intriguing that the two answers are different. This happens again every Rosh Hashanah: in our prayers on this day we call on all existence to recognise G-d: ‘May everything that has been made know that You have made it, everything that has been created understand that You have created it’11. During the Ten Days of Repentance we say this ten times because we are reaching deeper and deeper, and also we are drawing the exalted flow from above into all the ten aspects of our soul, percolating to all the different aspects of the person. ‘Israel’ suggests a higher level of the Jewish people, as we see from the incident in which Jacob wrestled with the angel, and the angel told him he should be called Israel ‘because you have succeeded against both spiritual and human forces’2. Just as there is a body and soul on every other aspect of existence, so too the body of Repentance is the verbal confession, while the soul of Repentance is one’s internal feelings, regret for the past and good resolutions for the future. Indeed, that is what the process of repentance is about: reaching the highest level and drawing it down into the material world, and transforming the materi

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Chabad Research Unit

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22 сентября 2023 г.

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