[Avodah] R Avraham

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<A more controversial point he made is that the total change of personality
: in teshuva is a special chessed of hashem and the regular person can't
make
: such a change in a different situation.

I don't get this. First he says that the same mechanicsm does work
the other way, then he says it can't -- that the self-change is
only possible through a chessed associated with teshuvah? >>

His position is that teshuva on an individual sin(s) is a normal process
but it requires
the technicalities of teshuva (vidui etc). It works in only one direction,
ie one can remove sins but not good deeds

The second teshuva is the change of the entire personality. RMA claim is
that is only by a special gift from G-d. This works in both directions,
since one is a new person it can remove both sins and good deeds (then its
not really a gift). In this case one need not go through the technicalities
of teshuva.

In passing he mentioned that halachic seforim tend to stress the first type
of teshuva while machshava seforim stress the second type but in reality
both exist

-- 
Eli Turkel
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