Lifnei Hashem Titharu: Yom Kippur, Returning to Hashem, and a Father’s Waiting Love

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. As we approach Yom Kippur, hachanah that's needed is a tremendous hachanah. What is the avodas hayom of Yom Kippur? Mad the pashut, it's teshuvah. The Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, ten days of teshuvah leading up to Yom Kippur. What is the teshuvah of Yom Kippur? A basic teshuvah is a ganz leben. It's a difficult procedure, teshuvah. A mensch, a baal teshuvah. The Rambam says is a person who is tzaddik tamid lifnei HaKadosh Baruch Hu. That's the derech of the baalei teshuvah, says the Rambam. Midarkei ha-teshuvah lihyos hashov tzaddik tamid. It's a Rambam, Teshuvah, perek beis, halachah daled: v'oseh tzedakah kefi kocho, mishaneh shemo, changes his name, mishaneh ma'aso, goleh limkomo. It's a whole life takes to do teshuvah. Yet, Yom Kippur is a tag for teshuvah. What is the— Teshuvah, the process of teshuvah, and what's the avodas hayom of Yom Kippur, of teshuvah. Shayach ton teshuvah, ein tag, good, nacha, potek, nain tag, aseres yemei teshuvah. If you understand in the Rishonim what is teshuvah, it's a nishtafa menut. It's mamish a whole change of a person. So then what is takkeh the avodas hayom, teshuvah on Yom Kippur? So let's takkeh see in the Rishonim, my beisai. The Rambam says that even though teshuvah is the mitzvah ganzya, it's even more so, says the Rambam, ba'aseres yemei teshuvah. And then the Rambam says that on top of that is a special din on Yom Kippur, must medafton teshuvah. Halacha vav: af al pi sheha-teshuvah v'hatzakah yafa l'olam, it's always, ha'ba'aseres hayamim shebein Rosh Hashanah l'Yom Kippur meyafeh b'yoser. It's Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is zman teshuvah lakol, l'yachid u'larabim, v'hu keitz, it's a time of mechilah u'slichah l'Yisrael, lefikach chayavim hakol la'asos teshuvah v'lizhaher b'Yom haKippurim, because it's a time of teshuvah, so the Rambam meileh muzman ton teshuvah. Alef, freg: how does this become lefikach? It's a zman of teshuvah, that's the mechayev of the teshuvah. He brings me a pasuk as a mustan teshuvah. Dos heist chayiv. Brengen az der zman is a time of teshuvah. Lefikach, because of that, there's a chiyuv to do teshuvah. Vi ligt in der zman teshuvah, az s'a mechayev of ton teshuvah. So l'choira daf mitzvahgin pashut. Rabbeinu Yonah writes that the ichur ha-teshuvah might be even a greater chet than the actual aveirah, which means that if a person knows that he could do teshuvah and he doesn't, it's even worse than actual doing the aveirah. A mensh hot a yetzer hara and he does an aveirah. But if a person knows, like the Rabbeinu Yonah writes, ki yatza olav ha-ketzef, ... and hastacha mahalach, you have a way on how to correct it. It's the pshat you don't correct it. That's called ichur ha-teshuvah. And aveirah yigdal, says the Rabbeinu Yonah, the sin becomes even greater. Nefesh HaChaim doesn't make the cheshbon of the Rambam, v'ibald es iz a zman fun teshuvah, muvas meint a zman fun teshuvah. Az we soon we'll see, rabosai.

Teshuva means the Rabbeinu Shlolem takes you by the hand. The Rabbeinu Shlolem makes it so capable and accessible. All you have to do is just do teshuva, and you still don't do teshuva. Chamera dike taina. A gantze yom teshuva is gring, meings, a shvere zach to teshuva. Teshuva is difficult. Aber der Rabbeinu Shlolem is giving you teshuva amish, here, now. Zeide told me there was Dr. Katchuzi in Shanghai. He was the one who gave out the visas. A zolgen fun Yapan to Shanghai. Later he became a Yid, a vram. He became Avram Katchuzi, famous. The Mir Yeshiva made a dinner for him to give him hakaras hatov for what he did. I know he was always in contact with my zeide and correspondence. He had a very rough life after the war. They took him in. He stayed over in... He was from Shanghai. He was in China. They took him in. So my zeide told me, I think the bichlach already, the historians already get the details correct, that the night before, knowing that the next day they're closing up the consulate, that he can't give out the visas, so the night before he came and he went to the window and ... the visas from the consulate, throwing them from the window. Thousands. The Yidden, ... chapped, we're jumping to get it. I use this as a mashal, the Rabbeinu Shalom, to the ... with the slichah mechilah. You got a day. It's one day left. ... Yom Kippur. It's over after that. It's not the same zman. After, Rabbeinu Shalom, slichah mechilah is finished. Grab it. ... doesn't grab it. ... Rabbeinu ... lifikach. ... zman teshuvah. That's the mechayev. The mechayev is understanding how the Rabbeinu Shalom is giving it to you. How could you not take it? That's pshat zman slichah mechilah l'Yisrael, lifikach, lifikach. ... Yom Kippur. You take it. How could you not take it? Rabbeinu ... learned another pshat. Rabbeinu learned, see a pasuk takke. Rabbeinu, in ... ois yud-daled, see takke a mitzvas aseh min haTorah, ton teshuvah. Az eviyeh shteit, mikol chatoseichem lifnei Hashem titharu. Yeah, a pasuk takke. Rabbeinu, is oich doch pashut. Oib s'achiv, muz es zayn mitzvas aseh, muz zayn achiv, muz es zayn a mekayem. Now what's the mekayem? Lifnei Hashem titaharu. Al kein hizhiranu hakasuv shenitaher lifnei Hashem b’tshuvaseinu, v’yechaper aleinu bayom hazeh l’taher osanu. Good? Lifnei Hashem titaharu. Rabbeinu, למה לא ללמוד כל הלשון for Rabbeinu Yonah? U’mitzvas aseh min haTorah l’hoir adam es rucho. לעשות תשובה. Rabbeinu Yonah כתב שתי... זה המצות עשה, תשובה. What is the nusach of Rabbeinu Yonah? U’mitzvas aseh min haTorah l’hoir adam es rucho, to be me’orer yourself to do teshuvah. Schreib, mitzvas aseh la’asos teshuvah. Az he says, Rambam, v’fikach chayavin hakol la’asos teshuvah. Rambam says doch klal, a must. Rabbeinu Yonah, du host doch noch a pasuk of them, doch a shtarker. Vider Rambam. The Rambam says v’fikach. The sevara kenat. We have to krich to our Rabbeinu Yonah to understand the sevara, that you know what it says, zman teshuvah, must מען תשובה. But the Rabbeinu Yonah...

Du hast a chaposik, shraib, mitzvas aseh la'asos teshuvah. Lehoir odom es ruchoi lachzor bitshuvah b'Yom HaKippurim. A beiser nacha shaylah: a gantzen tog darf men dos ton, efsher, oder efsher eimol a tog? Efsher eimol duchen tog, lehoir ruchoi lachzor bitshuvah is gut genug. Vos zogt Rabbeinu Yonah? Tog teshuvah does helfen. Mut tog teshuvah. Rabbeinu Yonah should have said it's a mitzvas aseh, to do teshuvah. Lehoir ruchoi, to be me'orer yourself, to awaken yourself to do teshuvah. Efshar. Afeilu b'chalomel getracht is the pshat tovel. Teshuvah can't be forced. Kenen zogn a Yid, must ton teshuvah? Farvos? Teshuvah must kumen from the mentch alein. If you force the teshuvah, she'eina teshuvah. Efsher teshuvah yirah, cheivas. Aber teshuvah must be that the person is coming to do teshuvah. I've spoken about this many times in the past. Even the Rambam, when he talks about the mitzvah of teshuvah in perek aleph, he shreibt: mitzvas teshuvah, na k'sheyashuv hachoteh b'chet'o yizdakek. Zei shreibt der Rambam in perek aleph: Kol hamitzvos shebaTorah, bein aseh bein lo sa'aseh, im avar adam... Ki, ki sheya'aseh teshuvah, when he does teshuvah, then chayav lizvades lifnei HaKel baruch Hu. So, a mitzvah ton teshuvah, efsher nisht. I v'shavta — Rishonim say it's only a havtachah. Talmud chacham, there's a mitzvah. The Ramban in Chumash learns it's bichlal, right? Rashi — the Ramban, Rashi learns it's going on Montehraga v'shavta ad Hashem Elokecha. Gut. Problem is the Rambam says mitzvas aseh achas in the hakdamah to the halachah, v'hu sheyashuv hachoteh mecheto lifnei Hashem v'yisvadeh. The hakdamah is mashma that ya mitzvas teshuvah, shei b'sagreisa richusa peisa, okay? Aber dos kumt zogen kipshutoi is the Rabbeinu Yonah. And Rabbeinu Yonah is learning that even the mitzvas teshuvah isn't a ma'aseh of teshuvah mitzvah, but it's a mitzvah me'orer yourself to do teshuvah. Mitzvas aseh min haTorah lehoir adam rucho. Dos a shiur kegen in hilchos teshuvah, it's not for right now, rabosai, in the next few minutes that we have. Mir darf zach a meireh dike yesod. A mahalach. Vos vil der Rabbeinu Yonah mit the lehoir rucho? It's interesting that the Rambam is madgish mitzvas aseh achas, v'hu sheyashuv hachoteh mecheto lifnei Hashem v'yisvadeh. Vos is lifnei Hashem, tracht lifnei Hashem. Every mitzvah that a person does is lifnei Hashem. Now the Rambam is matgish this again. The Rambam, I told you, that what is the baal teshuva? Midarkei hateshuva lihyos hashov tzeik tamid, vayta, vos? Lifnei Hashem. Vos vil der Rambam? So bishleim by vidui, the Rambam says it also. The Rambam says, kesheya'aseh teshuva, yashuv chayav l'hisvados lifnei HaKel baruch Hu. So here he doesn't use the lashon Hashem, but he says lifnei HaKel baruch Hu. Would that make sense, vos? Vidui is to. Ki lichred, I have to talk to somebody. Chet tzu me'barei, I'm confessing to the Ribono Shel Olam. Vidui, for lack of a better term, let's say confession. Confession, you confess to. U'memeila has to be lifnei HaKel baruch Hu. Ober in teshuva, vos is der Rambam's lifnei Hashem by teshuva? And he says it again, that the baal teshuva is tzarich tamid lifnei Hashem. See, there's an interesting yesod in Hilchos Teshuva, a hadgasha, an emphasis, rabbeisei: lifnei Hashem. Vos vil der Rambam?

Vos menta. Tshuvah lifnei Hashem. Un nisht nor dem, der baal teshuvah iz tzoig tamid, b'bechirah uvsachnunim lifnei Hashem. Ya, gut, nu. Der pshat, rabosai. And we say this: Avinu Malkeinu, hasireinu b'shuvah shleimah vateir vos lefanecha. Vos viln vaiter mit lefanecha? So the Michtav MeEliyahu brings from baalei mussar yesod: it has to be such a teshuvah vos iz shleimah lefanecha. Yenem ken shtopn, ach, baal mussar, ah, s'iz shein vi gold. Yenem ken shtopn. Ich tu teshuvah; vos tut zich op mit hartzen? You never know. Ober zol zayn azat teshuvah, that it's shleimah too; it passes your inspections, meireh. Like the Rambam says, yedei yoida alav yedei talmudois, the yedei talmudois knows vos tut zich op, but dir darlt zin. So zol zayn azat teshuvah, rabosai, lefanecha, shleim lefanecha, nicht nur... shein vi gold. Beautiful. Rebbe, kemen zogn, vi mir zogn dort in the Rambam, s'iz an inyan fun lifnei Hashem in hilchos teshuvah, u'mebater HaKadosh Baruch Hu, He should bring us back b'teshuvah shleimah completely, till where? Till the lifnei Hashem lefanecha, az mitut chata'im, rabosai, iz men movedel fun the barei olam. Az mitut chata'im iz men menutak fun Borei Olam. Az mitut chataim vert me vait fun boirei olam. Teshuvah is doch der taich, lashuv, avu. So some Rishonim learn lashuv means to change peh. It's to change direction. V'shov macharecha, even away from Hashem, v'shov meacharei Hashem. It's to change direction. Andere lernen, others learn teshuvah is to go back. Zogt the Maharal, you're going back to what? To your original state, the way you were born, a mensch is geboyren rein, a mensch is geboyren unchet. Teshuvah is to go back to your original state. Azoi lernt the Maharal in Nesiv HaTeshuvah. The pashtus rov Rishonim lernen, nesmuchah zeh Rambam. The Rambam in perek zayin, halachah vav, zogt: Teshuvah mekareves es harchokim. Der gantze richus in the Rambam, it's a kiruv of rechokim. Der chet macht rachuk, un der teshuvah macht karov. Der chet takes you far from the Ribeirah Olam. You're not lifnei Hashem anymore. And with the teshuvah, you become lifnei Hashem. Vayeitzei Kayin milifnei Hashem. When Kayin did his chet, there too, the nusach of the pasuk is mamash gevaldik: Vayeitzei Kayin milifnei Hashem. The mensch is rachok from the lifnei Hashem. The mentions of vayten, the person was taken away, he's menutak from zayn lifnei Hashem. Teshuvah macht az me zol tzerikun lifnei Hashem, she yashuv acheteh michetoi lifnei Hashem. Talking about teshuvah, daf Leben agants Leben yetz mit dem lifnei Hashem. It's another leben, rabosai. How about teshuvah? The Rambam zogt, yis'asek tamid b'vchi lifnei Hashem, eredt mit'n Borei Olam. Talking about teshuvah is a different person. S'nit nor zelbe mensch; der mensch hot gelebt vayt fun Borei Olam, rachok. The Rambam zogt, der mensch der teshuvah is tzo'ek tamid b'vchi lifnei Hashem, eredt mit'n Borei Olam. He's mekushar, he's connected. He lives with emunah and bitachon. He lives with a shivisi Hashem l'negdi tamid. Otte dos is teshuvah lifnei Hashem. Otte dos is der teshuvah fun lifnei Hashem. Yetz vil ich devaizen, der yesod of the lifnei Hashem doesn't mean lifnei Hashem.

Just in front. Lifnei Hashem means mit. Lifnei means in front. A gedoyle teshuva shemegaas ad kisei hakavod. And even more, I'll show you the Rambam. The Rambam in Perek Zayin, Halacha Vav, says, the eilige Rambam, vos iz teshuva? It's mekareves es harchokim. Says the Rambam, shemekareves es ha'adam laShechinah. How close? Four feet? Eight feet? In front? What's called in front? Lifnei. Shenemar, Shuvah Yisrael, says the Rambam, k'ilu... im tashuv... bisidbok, bisidbok, bisidbok. You know what lifnei means, rabosai? Davuk im Borei Olam. The Rambam says it clearly. What is teshuva? What is chazarah? Chazarah isn't just lifnei. Chazarah is so much lifnei, az me'velt einz davuk mitn Borei Olam. Davuk, davuk, bisidbok. Teshuva means that a mensch ווערט einz mitn Borei Olam. The Gemara in Yuma pey-vav tells us that teshuva is a meiredige chiddush far vos. A wife that goes away from the husband and is mezaneh, is it shayach chazarah of them? Is it shayach chazarah? The pasuk says, Achasher hutamah, you can't take her back. Un yet, Klal Yisroel is an azam matziv. Un der Ribono Shel Olam zogt, Mein vayb, ich nem dir tsurik. S'hameforesh in Gemara, Rabbeisei, pei-vav amud, Rabbi Yochanan: Gadol teshuvah shedoiches lo saaseh shebaTorah, shene'emar, leimor, hen yishalach ish es ishto v'halcha me'ito v'haysa l'ish acher, hashov elav, v'lo techanef ha'aretz, shuv elai, ne'um Hashem. ... S'iz nisht stam teshuvah lifnei Hashem. S'iz a teshuvah fun chibur ish l'isha. S'azoi vi ish v'isha, Rabbeisei. U'bi sidbuk, v'haysa l'basar echad. Dos iz ... far davak b'ishto. ... V'hayu l'basar echad, dos iz deveikus. Azoi vi der yisha. S'iz nisht stam a deveikus fun lifnei Hashem. S'iz a deveikus fun ish v'isha. Der loshon dibuk, v'davak, gefint men by isha, v'davak. Az dos haBeis is di yud-gimmel midos. ... Avodas Hashem is yud-gimmel midos, zogt dos Ibn ... mit nachamal, mit nachamal. Yem kiper, me zogt, es vayter unsl vaybayim nila, drayצן mol, vayter Yud-Gimmel midos, vayter Yud-Gimmel midos. Vos iz der Yud-Gimmel? Tzi moichel v'soleiach, machila, vi arbit Yud-Gimmel midos. Az me zogt די Yud-Gimmel midos, zi havi mezogt, a slicha, a pesel, a aveires. Vos iz der Yud-Gimmel midos? Az me kukt in Shlah, der Shlah zogt pshat in Gemara. Di Gemara says, Who taught us the Yud-Gimmel midos? Der Ribono Shel Olam. He is nisatek b'tallis, un di Gemara, shanah daf yud-zayin zogt, un ert gezogt tzu Moshe Rabbeinu, Im ya'asu k'seder hazeh, hineni moichel lachem. Zogt der Shlah, it's not enough to say it. It's not enough to say the Yud-Gimmel midos. Dav ya'asu k'seder hazeh, midaf ton di Yud-Gimmel midos. Mahu rachum, af atah rachum; mahu chanun, af atah chanun. You have to do it. You know what avodah of a self-made teshuvah is? A rachum, a chanun, a... All the midos... Chazal tell us, the Torah zogt, the...

Davakt in the Ribono Shel Olam, pasuk zugt. U'boisedbak. You're supposed to be davak. Fragt די גמרא, שייך דבקות in the Ribono Shel Olam, v'eish ochlah? He's fire. How could you be mischaber with the Ribono Shel Olam? U'boisedbak. Ela isdabek b'midosav. Please davek b'midosav. You have the boi sidbak. Zugt der Shlah, meinich das is del taitch, be'ezer Hashem yisbarach, chaltz emes la'amito. Der Shlah zugt mit afton di midos, miltachton, der pshat is, when you do it, you mekayem the Chazal of u'boisedbak. Vos is teshuvah? The teshuvah is, kiloima bisidbak. The vaves v'yud gimel midos haRachamim. V'yibal, since teshuvah is u'boisedbak, v'yibal teshuvah is u'boisedbak. U'boisedbak in the Rambam zugt. It's nit stam lifnei Hashem. Pirs the Ribono Shel Olam. Un mamash davuk in the Ribono Shel Olam. Yud gimel midos is yasos, zogt der Shlah; it was a start, you have to do it. Der taitch of this is gishmak, it's me'uredik. Az mitutos, then you have the Chazal that you mizdabek in the Ribono Shel Olam through the midos. Me'eila dos is teshuvah. Dos is a mahalach in teshuvah, fun u'boisedbak. The Gemara tells us a Yerushalmi. That they asked chachma, that they asked nevuah, to Yerushalmi at the end of Makkos, what should happen with the choteh? Parable, misa, mitra, ... ba'olam, ... what should be with the baal teshuvah, with the choteh? ... אומר, תן תשובה. Alef, fregin: why does the chachma not know this? Why does the nevuah not know this? It's a pasuk: teshuvah. ... Be'emes, ... halacha shteit klal. ... You don't take back an ish acharei shehu tama. So when you ask chachma, they said it's not shayach to teshuvah. Gemara in Pei Vav, ... pashut pshat ... Now the Ribono Shel Olam can override the lo sa'aseh shebaTorah. That's the pshat. Teshuvah is mamash ... The Ribono Shel Olam has to be maskim to it. ... to take back an ishus nunim. Sha'alu l'chachma, halacha is nit azoi. Sha'alu l'nevuah, it's not the halacha. You're right, there's teshuvah, but ... teshuvah, then ... v'dovak b'ishto ... ... mamash ishus nunim, to take them ... of them ... the Ribono Shel Olam alein zol zogn ya'aseh teshuvah v'yechaper. How does such a teshuvah work, Rabosai? I see the clock, two more minutes. How does such a teshuvah work? Mir darf zach. The ul of Hilchos Teshuva is takke for a slichah u'mechilah. Like the Rambam says, keitzad slichah u'mechilah? Muz men ton teshuva. The Rambam says clearly you have to do teshuva. Aber Rabbeinu Yonah vil velche teshuvah of Yom Kippur? Lifnei Hashem titharu. It's another teshuva Rabbeinu Yonah zocht. He's looking for the bisidba. He's looking to get the lifnei Hashem with this teshuva. Ki lo yomar, al kein iz ir anu hakasuv shenitaher lifnei Hashem b'teshuvaseinu, nitaher, v'yechaper aleinu bayom hazeh l'taher osanu mi'kol chatoseinu lifnei Hashem. Of dem darf nisht kein gezehl ches teshuva. Midaf naher lahoyer adam es rucho lachzor. To turn from a rachok. Tzu vern a karov. The Rambam says emes hayeh zeh sonui, shakutz, nechted, un heint iz a yedid. How did that work in one night? The Rambam uses the loshon emes, nechted un heint. You ever get sick?

I was so thrown. Takes a week of antibiotics, sometimes two weeks of antibiotics. Mitamal emes overnight. A peleh? Who gets better in one night? Emes, ibern nacht. ... from teshuvah is emes, ... lifnei Hashem. The Ribono Shel Olam ... gebrengt im karov. Of der teshuvah shayach l'hahir ruchoi, l'hahir ruchoi. His'orerus of teshuvah, hirhur teshuvah, like the Gemara in Kiddushin says, with a hirhur teshuvah he becomes a tzaddik. How do you become a tzaddik, with a hirhur Hashem or hirhur teshuvah, with the kiddushin? He's mekadesh ... I'm not really a tzaddik ... with a hirhur teshuvah, tzaddik, yeah. You have to daven, taka, slichah u'mechilah. It's not so easy to get slichah u'mechilah. ... the Ribono Shel Olam gives him a matanah, ... the slichah u'mechilah. Rabbeinu Yonah is talking about the lifnei Hashem. The Rambam is saying, so what do you do with the slichah u'mechilah? That's not an easy thing. In one minute, it's ... slichah. The Ribono Shel Olam gives it like I threw it, throwing it from the window. ... mevadik. Ad yoymosoi techakeh loi. Im yashuv, miyad ... Ad yoymosoi techakeh loi. ... waits. Person's doing aveiros his whole life. Ad yoymosoi ... can ... Im Yoshuv, ... miyad tekabel. Ki lo yis'acher pois b'mois hameis, ki im b'shuvoi midarko, b'chayo. HaKadosh Baruch Hu, the Ribono Shel Olam waits for this truth. Let me tell me. I grew up in this home my life, and that's such a reisha in me. My baba had a brother, Leibel, in Europe, in Radin. He was drafted to the Russian army. He was taken away. Maybe that's how he survived the war. The rest of her brothers and sisters didn't make it. Leibel. He had a brother, Leibel. My baba told me that my zayde, her father and her mother, used to go to the window whenever they heard a noise and look, efsher Leibel is tzurikgekumen. Efsher Leibel is tzurikgekumen. Maybe Leibel. They used to look through the window, efsher kumt Leibel, efsher kumt. The Ribono Shel Olam steht bam fenster, and the Ribono Shel Olam is mechakeh. The Ribono Shel Olam is waiting by the window. Avu is mayn Leibel? Avu is mayn chayimel? Avu is mayn dovidel? Avu is mayn dovidel? Avu is mayn Leibel? Im Yoshuv, miyad, miyad, tekabel. Mechakeh. Now you understand why it's so easy to do teshuvah. You're right, a whole year. It's the avodah for teshuvah. Yom Kippur, it's a keitz, mechilas, slicha. The Ribono Shel Olam steht bam fenster. Tzuk, kum. So, nacha shayle fun alta fun Kelim. The alter fun Kelim is a meyredike shayle. Ki bayoym hazeh yechaper aleichem l'taher eschem lifnei Hashem titharu. The seider is flipped. It should be the other way around: I do teshuvah, lifnei Hashem titharu. Vet dos zogt, Ki bayoym hazeh yechaper aleichem l'taher eschem. First, and then lifnei Hashem titharu. First you have to do lifnei Hashem titharu. Zei fregt alta fun Kelim, lernt alta fun Kelim. HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives siyata dishmaya even before you do the teshuvah; there's kumt a teshuvah. You know what alta fun Kelim is saying? I'll give you a mashal. I was thinking about a—my son went to his grandparents in Paris this summer. My son went to visit his grandparents. Gegangen for a week. They were begging him already for years to come, so he went to visit. Every day they would call and tell him, Everything is prepared for you. Your bed is already made. The food is already cooked and refrigerated. Everything is ready.

Made for you to come, and we can bring you home. We bring you to that ... It's already made. It's all set. The table is already set. All you have to do is lifnei Hashem. Like the Rabbeinu Yonah says, to be mis'orer, lachzor b'tshuvah. That's ad yoym mosai techakeh. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is waiting from the window, zucht, you should do teshuvah. And the minute we do teshuvah, He'll jump on it, miyad, miyad tekablei. But das is Yom Kippur. But das is lifnei Hashem. Dos meint bei davuk, in a menut. ... lifnei Hashem. But das is the avodah. Rabosai, you missed the moment. It's shver ton, it's teshuvah. Not an easy thing, teshuvah. Geit doch alle pratim in the Rambam, schwer. If you have an opportunity, ein tug, ein tug, ... ich take you, miyad tekablei. Oh, I see, I see there's an ... ich nem dir. Der ... is the lifnei Hashem, zol men takeh zoche zayn. So der inyan. Forgive me for one more minute, Rabosai, I apologize. Keep it ... beten mechila. ... throughout the year, I went too long. I apologize. I heard a gevaldik from South Fallsburg, I think it's Rabbi Bissa, one from South Fallsburg, told my brother, Eli, that he heard from his father, Rabbi Yerucham, ... that my elter zeide, the Beis Aharon, when he took off his tefillin Erev Yom Kippur, he picked it up, he gave it a kiss, and he said, From dear eiche tefillin, ... mechila. He didn't reach properly throughout the year. ... gave it a kiss, ... I ask mechila from the Eibershter if I went long, and if I didn't answer maybe some of the shailas during this shiur. I tried my best, my beis, with all my heart. I came to give, to teach. I ask you mechila, ... Nach ein tzukunft, rabosai. Lifnei mi ata metaher, umi metaher eschem? You see the hadgasha, the lifnei. Avichem shebaShamayim. Atata, like I said, קוק פון fenster. Atata takes you back no matter who and what. Atata, there's no such thing that you can't do teshuva, no matter how far you fall. ... Avichem shebaShamayim, and it's a mefurash Chazal with this I end. Medrash Rabbah, Parshas Veschanan. Perek beis, chavtalit. V'shaft Hashem Elokecha, amar Reb Shmuel, pagrita b'shem Rameir. Hamoadavedomeh l'ben melech sheyatza l'tarbus ra. The ben melech went l'tarbus ra. V'haya hamelech meshaleach pitgugoi, which is a person who's in charge, a mechanech, it's the one who took care of the child, and he tells him, Chazor b'ni, come do teshuva. V'haya haben m'shalchoi v'omar l'aviv, the ben sends him back and he says, I can't come back. He sends this rebbe, this teacher, back and he says, I can't do teshuva. Why? I can't come back to you. V'eilu hapanim ani chozer bi. What's panim? Look, I just can't. I'm so removed. I did such avlus to you, the king. I can't come back. V'ani misbayesh lefanecha. So the father sends back a letter, V'omar lo, Bni, yesh ben misbayesh lachzor l'aviv? Is there such a thing as a child who's embarrassed to come back to his father? U'matoch chozer. And if you do come back, who better than the father? Lo yeitz l'avicha ata chozer. You're coming to the father, an afkina.

HaKadosh Baruch Hu m'shaleiach yirmu Yisrael. Shoshanah chatuv, amar lo, Lech emor l'bni, chazru lachem. That's where I got my mashal that he stands by the window. He says, The minute you're ready to come, I take you. To me, I saw lifnei me'at metaher me'avichem. Think of it as how easy it is because of the lifnei Avichem shebashamayim. That's hashgacha Yisrael. He has such a relationship to Ribono Shel Olam. He calls you a child, and then he takes you back. ... lifnei Hashem, bni, chazer b'cha. ... Hashem should take us back, ... lifnei Hashem ... You’ve just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.