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A. Elul is a time of awakening for teshuva, and every person must work to fix that which is within him. In the book Orot HaTeshuva, Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook zt"l wrote several times that there are people for whom teshuva brings despair and weakens their mind ("Where do I stand?", "How much have I sinned?", and so on).
This is forbidden! A person must know that even if he stumbled once, even if he acted incorrectly, he should always strive forward. So if a person knows he has a set time to do teshuva - and there are Rishonim who think that doing teshuva is a mitzvah - then surely it should give a person strength and incentive to do teshuva.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
