0324 - The Rebbe Demands Teshuva Ila'a

00:01 Erev Yom Kippur, Tov Shen Lamed, in the brachah that the Rebbe gave after Mincha like he would do every Erev Yom Kippur, he used the lashon that there should be a heseder as teshuva amitis from the pnimis of the heart. Teshuva ye'aleh, should do teshuva ye'aleh, which is besimcha v'tuv levav, and you'll be able to be l-learn Torah and Igra and Chassidus and keep mitzvos behider and especially avodas hatfila. So the Rebbe used the lashon that you should be neseder with teshuva ye'aleh. So by the meal, Motzei Yom Kippur, we know the Rebbe would eat the meals upstairs till Rebbe Yosef Hamadina passed away. The Rebbe would eat the yontif meals upstairs, including Motzei Yom Kippur. There was also a regular yontif meal upstairs in the second floor in the Friedrich Rebbe's apartment. And there, people would ask the Rebbe questions. So Rashag asked the Rebbe that he spoke about heseder is with teshuva ye'aleh, but don't you have to have teshuva tatah first? Teshuva tatah means poshit to do teshuva on averus. You do an avera, you gotta do teshuva about it. Think about the avera and do teshuva. Teshuva ye'aleh, it's seen as a higher madrega. After you already did teshuva on averus, then you get to teshuva ye'aleh. So he asked, "How did the Rebbe say that you should be neseder with teshuva ye'aleh? Don't you need first teshuva tatah?" So the Rebbe said, "This is something special for our times. The Herer showed that now is better. Now you're able-- Now

01:10 you should do that." But in the meantime, he asked the Rebbe, "So how come we say al chet if we're talking about teshuva ye'aleh?" So the Rebbe says, "That's not akasha on what I said." It says in Chassidus that Yom Kippur is teshuva ye'aleh. Nevertheless, on Yom Kippur, we say al chet. And the Rebbe was masbir. And the nekuda where the Rebbe was masbir is that teshuva ye'aleh, it says in the Gores that teshuva is, is davkas ruach habrucha when a Yid connects himself to the Aibishter through Torah and gemillus chassodim and kavanas halev b'tefila. That means that through learning Torah and giving tzedakah and tefila with achayes, that's teshuva ye'aleh. And that's something that a person should right away strive to do, not to wait for the end of teshuva tatah. He should jump directly to teshuva ye'aleh. The fact it has to be teshuva tatah to get rid of the averus, like it says in Tanya, that you cannot start doing higher ma'avodas Hashem unless you get rid of your averus, that's the way it's metzad milmah le'olam. But a person has to want, has to strive to learn poshit and daven with achayes, which is the, is, is davkas ruach habrucha. And then the Rebbe explained also, and I'm just saying the nekuda b'kitzer, that even though normally the seder is first sur me'ra to get rid of the averus and then asei tov, because you, like I said, in Tanya it says that you can't start doing avodas Hashem without doing

02:27 teshuva. It says that's-- but it's very hard, so you might not be matzliach. So therefore, go directly to teshuva ye'aleh, which is to learn and daven, and that's the end of teshuva ye'aleh. And the Rebbe said it's v'al tzeda the difference between Chassidus and mussar. In mussar, they involve a-- they're involved a lot in how to get rid of the averus, how to not to lie and not to be a balgayva, not to lashon hara, and miparkes acham them. And the velt says it's not kedai parkes achim blotter, not kedai to get involved in garbage, in dirt, because you could get dirty. So here, if you get involved so much in the negative, if chas v'shalom you don't succeed in getting rid of it, what are you left with? With nothing. But Chassidus says main thing is with, uh, with the excitement you should daven and you should learn and you have yirat shamayim. So if chas v'shalom you're not matzliach, you didn't succeed in changing yourself, but in the meantime, you were involved in Torah and things like that. Now, and but beemes the Rebbe said the end will be that you will be matzliach because no matter what, if you did good things with achayes, klep tachatsu, so it sticks to you, and therefore you do have from it. So therefore, the right thing-- things to do nowadays when it's hard to get involved and get rid of averus, go straight to teshuva ye'aleh. And the Rebbe explained that's why he said in

03:45 the bracha you should be neseder in teshuva ye'aleh.