Part of the series: Divrei Hashkafa by Rav Mayer Twersky
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one more comment on the Rambam’s Teki’at Shofar that we were looking at yesterday in Gimmel Daled but maybe we’ll just approach it from the from the vantage point of what the Rambam might say in
פרק ב הלכה א. פרק ב הלכה א איזו היא תשובה גמורה?
What’s sort of the hypothetical theoretical snapshot of teshuvah?
זה שבאה לידו דבר שעבר בו ואפשר בידו לעשות ופירש ולא עשה מפני התשובה לא מיראה ולא מכשלון כוח.
The person was nichshal once and then the second time everything is the same it’s a controlled experiment in in theory everything is the same and the only difference is that because of teshuvah he doesn’t succumb the second time.
הרי שבאה על אשה בעבירה לאחר זמן ונתייחד עמה והוא עומד באהבתו בה ובכוח גופו ובמדינה שעבר בה
all the circumstances are the same however this time פירש ולא עבר זו היא תשובה גמורה. Hu she’shlomo amar
וזכור את בוראך בימי בחורותיך עד אשר לא יבואו ימי הרעה והגיעו שנים אשר תאמר אין לי בהם חפץ.
So the ideal teshuvah is when a person does teshuvah at the same stage of life. Okay there’s obviously much to discuss but but just what what links up to our halacha by the Rambam by shofar so the Rambam says the prooftext for this ideal that that the optimal teshuvah happens at the same age and stage of life is the pasuk in Kohelet where Shlomo HaMelech says וזכור את בוראך בימי בחורותיך. So it’s clear that Shlomo HaMelech doesn’t say the word teshuvah. The word teshuvah doesn’t appear in the pasuk. It’s clear that uzchor et borecha means teshuvah and that the overarching principle and that the essence of of teshuvah not the details but the essence of teshuvah is remembering Hakadosh Baruch Hu and that emerges from our Rambam by shofar also when the Rambam explains what we should hear in the kol shofar
עורו ישנים משנתכם והקיצו נרדמים מתרדמתכם וחפשו במעשיכם וחזרו בתשובה וזכרו בוראכם.
V’chizru b’teshuvah refers to the details of teshuvah but the essence of teshuvah again as we discussed in the context of Boshti cheit signifies indicates Rachmana litzlan forgetting Hakadosh Baruch Hu and because of that the essence of every teshuvah is the zichru borachem. Good Yom Tov and have a good year to you.