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Sha’ar 2:8: The skewed self-image which results in one not recognizing his need to do teshuva stems, at times, from not being sufficiently motivated to know enough about what HKB”H tells us is right and good, and therefore he doesn’t know and therefore he doesn’t realize that he has sinned and must do teshuva.
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Good morning rabbosai, just very briefly for for this morning the Shaarei Teshuva, the the last few lines of os chaf. ופעמים תהיה הסיבה לזאת מקוצר בינתם. Sometimes this this incredible self-image that a person has that he has nothing to do teshuvah for is a result of just a lack of understanding. כי לא יבואו לדרוש אלוהים. Since they're not doreish Elokim and and clear that what drishas Elokim means to know what Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants. To be doreish Elokim is to know what Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants from us. מה ה' אלקיך שואל מעמך in terms of how we're supposed to be living. When a person is not sufficiently motivated to know how he's supposed to live, what halacha tells a person to do what not to do, so that's a chisaron in drishas Elokim. ודעת דרכיו לא יחפצון. It means that the that the that the person doesn't desire to know the darchei Hashem. The mitzvos Hashem are described as drachai as דרכי הקדוש ברוך הוא. Im b'chukosai teleichu. The Midrash says on Im b'chukosai teleichu that whatever Hakadosh Baruch Hu commanded us, kavyachol, he does also. Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells us to be mevaker cholim, he's mevaker cholim. So what does it mean? It means that that that that it represents what Hakadosh Baruch Hu says is the right and the good. על כן לא ישקדו על דלתי חכמים ותלמידים. k'inyan shene'emar, לא יאהב לץ הוכח לו אל חכמים לא ילך. The letz, the one who's scornful, doesn't go to chachamim to to learn and to seek the guidance of of how to live. The Gra very famously says when the Gemara says in Berachos that הרואה שייסורין באים עליו, so yifashpeish b'ma'asav, יפשפש במעשיו וימשמש במעשיו. Pishpeish v'lo matza is yitleh b'bitul Torah. So why isn't bitul Torah itself one of the aveiros that he was being when when he was being mifashpeish b'ma'asav b'ma'asav? So the Gra famously says what pshat means like this: if a person has yissurin ואין ייסורין בלא חטא. And a person then can't think of anything wrong he's done, so the Gra says yitleh b'bitul Torah. The only way that's possible is if the person has been mevatel Torah and therefore doesn't know enough and and doesn't know to be able to recognize what what his what his shortcomings are. To care enough to know what the halacha is, what the halacha tells us, is an expression of drishas Elokim ומכלל הן רחמנא ליצלן אתה שומע לאו as well. Okay so we'll stop here just briefly this morning. Okay rabbosai, have a good productive morning, be well, be safe.