[Avodah] teshuva

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sun Oct 9 18:25:27 PDT 2016


While I can't speak to ROY takes it, R' Yisrael Salanter understands
the Rambam as requiring teshuvah sheleimah on any one mitzvah.

Shir haShirim Rabba 5:3 famously has Hashem saying that if we were
to make an opening of teshuvah the size of the head of a pin, He will
open a door for us that wagons and chariots could drive through.

And yet the Rambam (Teshuvah 2:2-3) requires doing full teshuvah, all
four steps, to remove sin.

RYS (Or Yisrael, letter #6) says that the medrash refers to doing full
teshuvah for one small aveirah, something that is small in lefum tza'ara
agra says -- something easy for me to fix.

One becomes a baal teshuvah gamur, of that one cheit.

He says that when working incrementally, one must fully do teshuvah for
some one thing, then some any one thing. Rather than do a broadspread
half-teshuvah for many things at once.

GCT!
-Micha

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