0545 - The Rebbe's Response Regarding the Inyan of Teshuva

00:01 A younger man told me that before he got married, which was in the beginning of the mems, he wrote to the Rebbe a shaila. We know that the chosan is forgiven for all his averas, but you have to do teshuva. So he wrote to the Rebbe asking, "What is inyan of teshuva?" Exactly the wording, I don't know, but something like that he wrote. And this is what the Rebbe answered him. "Inyan hatshuva mevuer charote gemura v'chulu ve'ad la'avedes Hashem b'simche k'chasam b'igeres hatshuva." The inyan of teshuva is explained that it is complete regret, et cetera, till serving Hashem with simche, like it says at the end of Igeres HaTeshuvah. Now, when you talk about the end of Igeres HaTeshuvah, be'pashut it means the last perek, perek yud beis. But perek yud beis talks about the ta'am ha'simche b'yesurei haguf. The reason why a person could be b'simche or should be b'simche when he has yesurim, chas v'shalom, when he has suffering. And he goes on into the inyan explaining how you could accept the yesurim b'aveid b'simche. So when this bochur, the chosan, got this letter, he was a little bit nervous because the Rebbe is like hinting to him concerning that you have to accept yesurim b'simche, something as if that's gonna happen, chas v'shalom, et cetera, et cetera. So he spoke to a mashpia, and the mashpia said, "Yep, be'pashut when the Rebbe writes the end of Igeres HaTeshuvah, it means perek yud beis, and there it talks about this. So yeah, you

01:26 gotta look into this to see how to be mekabel yesurim b'simche." So he wrote back to the Rebbe. First he wrote, copied, was ma'atik the lashon that the Rebbe wrote to him, "Inyan hatshuva mevuer charote gemura v'chulu ve'ad la'avedes Hashem b'simche k'chasam Igeres HaTeshuvah." And he asked the Rebbe, did the Rebbe mean the end of Igeres HaTeshuvah meaning perek yud beis? And then he also wrote the Rebbe, to the Rebbe what the mashpia said to him. So the Rebbe, on the words that he quoted, the original letter of the Rebbe, the Rebbe added when it says that the, the Rebbe wrote, "Till avedes Hashem b'simche k'chasam Igeres HaTeshuvah," so the Rebbe wrote these words, he added, "Shehi b'simche raba," that that is with a lot of simche, great simche, "ve'kam upon him," underlined twice and many times, which seems to mean that this inyan that teshuva has to be b'simche, b'simche raba, is written in many places many times. And then on the words that he asked the Rebbe if the Rebbe meant perek yud beis of Igeres HaTeshuvah, the Rebbe crossed out the word perek yud beis and wrote perek yud alef. Because in perek yud alef, it also talks about doing teshuva b'simche, and that's what the Rebbe meant as the s- a chasam, this, the end of Igeres HaTeshuvah, not the perek yud beis, which seems to be talking about yesurim, et cetera. And then when he wrote to the Rebbe what the mashpia told him, this is what the Rebbe wrote,

02:47 "Yishalu," you should ask that mashpia, "al pi zeh- haim ledaitei v'chein melamed es talmidav," the words v'chein melamed is in parentheses, "k'shekesvim inyan hatshuva," the word inyan hatshuva underlined twice, "hakavone," and then in parentheses, "lei eich loshuv ela," end of parentheses, "l'limud ta'am v'chulu," and the word l'limud is underlined, "ve'yedeini teshuvasi." To translate, the Rebbe said, write to him, "Ask him," ask the mashpia, "according to what he says, does he really think," and in parentheses, "and this is how he teaches his talmidim, that when you write the word inyan hatshuva," and Rebbe underlined it twice, because the Rebbe's lashon in the original letter was inyan hatshuva mevuer charote gemura v'chulu, that if you write the word inyan hatshuva, does he think that it means not how to do teshuva, but to learn a reason for something? Because in perek yud beis, it's giving a reason how you could accept yesurim b'simche. That's not what inyan hatshuva is. So how in the world did he even think that when I wrote it, I meant perek yud beis, which talks as a reason for simche ba'yesurim? When I wrote inyan hatshuva, does he really think that that's how he teaches, that when it says inyan hatshuva means not how you do teshuva, but it's a, means the learning of a reason v'chulu, et cetera? And then the Rebbe said, "Ve'yedeini teshuvasi," let me know what he answered. So he went back to the mashpia, and the mashpia told him that's not what exactly what he meant, et

04:12 cetera, et cetera. And he wrote this back to the Rebbe, that the mashpia explained himself that he didn't mean that, but he, he meant whatever that the teshuva should be b'simche, et cetera.