0203 - Tzadikim Don't Have the Ability to be like a Baal Teshuva

00:00 In the farbrengen of Lil Simchas Torah, the night of Simchas Torah before Hakofes, Tov Shin Lamed Alef, the Rebbe was speaking about the dinin of teshuva. And he quoted the loshen that the Rambam says, a little bit different than what the Gemara says, but the loshen of the Rambam is that bemakom sheba'alei teshuva omdim, ein tzadikim gemurim yichelim lamet chom. In a place where the ba'alei teshuva stand, complete tzadikim, tzadikim gemurim, ein yichelim don't have the ability of standing there. And I remember the Rebbe mentioned that. And after he said that statement, he stopped for a second. You could see a certain hesitation. And then the Rebbe continued that there is a diyuk here. The diyuk is ein yichelim lamet chom, which means not only they're not at that madrega, they don't even have the potential. They don't even have yicheles. That means not only mitzad keichas hagluim and keichas makifim, rotzim v'tainik, all these keichas, they're not at that level, but they don't even have the potential of standing there. They don't even have the yicheles, which is the potential of standing there. And I was wondering what was the hesitation that the Rebbe had before he came to say that. Then, by the meal, Rashag asked the Rebbe, where is the moke for such a pshat, that they don't even have the yicheles? Where is the moke for it? And the Rebbe said to him that azais mir aingifal be'shas maise. That means that at the moment while I was saying, that's the

01:24 way it came to my mind. So then we understood what was the hesitation, because at that mind, it came, that moment it came to the Rebbe's mind, so he stopped for a second. Then the Rebbe continued saying that pshat.