Returning to our Source: Teshuvah

by Yedidah on September 1, 2015

Returning to our Source: from the Kabbalah of Rav Kook and of Rabbi Ashlag

The streams of Teshuvah, both the individual and the general, rush along. They are like waves of flames on the surface of the sun, which, in an unceasing struggle, burst forth, go up, and give life to the multitude of worlds and to uncountable creatures. …

Through Teshuvah everything returns to godliness. The reality of the power of Teshuvah that rules over all the worlds returns and reconnects all things in the perfect divine reality. Orot HaTeshuvah Rabbi Avraham Yizhak Hacohen Kook.

Teshuvah, the mere possibility of Teshuvah, is thus a gift of the Creator to the created beings.

Teshuvah means that we do not have to be separated from our Creator, or remain distanced, but that we all have the possibility of fulfilling the purpose for which we are created and becoming one with the Divine. Through our work in Torah and mitzvot, what seems to be an unattainable aim becomes a real possibility.

This month of Elul is designated by the Sages as the month of Teshuvah, the month of reconciliation and love.

In this podcast we learn an article of Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag who teaches that our origin is in God and directs us how to return.

This podcast is dedicated to the merit of my dear friend Hana Leah bat Esther Sara for a Refuah Shlemah

Teaching from Bircat Shalom of Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag  Ma’amar 2 Sefer Hama’amarim תשמ”ט and from Orot HaTeshuvah Rav Kook chapter four

Other talks on Teshuvah and the month of Elul

Forty days of love: From Elul to Yom Kippur

Enjoying the month of Elul

Shame is a precious feeling

 

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