[Avodah] Yom Kippur Thought

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:18:51PM -0500, Moshe Yehuda Gluck via Avodah wrote:
: Besides everything everyone else said, there's a fundamental difference
: between a bad thought and a bad action - when we have a bad action, we did
: it, we can repent. But a bad thought can still lead to a bad action - so the
: "potential energy" of the bad thought is worse than the bad action. 

Isn't this caused by a more fundamental difference?

Teshuvah for a bad action is teshuvah for something in the past.

Teshuvah for a bad de'iah (thought, middah, whatever) is for smething
that is still in your head, in the present. And the teshuvah is doing
something material to get rid of it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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