TESHUVAH and EMUNAH

[James and Terry Hamilton]

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This is a serious deep calleth unto deep study and will require you to bring a notepad...
Shalom to one and all...

ShekinahLife

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Repentance and Faith and Faithfulness

Circumcision is the sign of the covenant, and the bow in the cloud is a sign of the covenant, what then is the sign of the NEW COVENANT?

TESHUVAH and EMUNAH, of course!

Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew by Adin Steinsaltz




The Garden of Emunah: A Practical Guide to Life by Rabbi Shalom Arush
( over one Million Copies so far)

How else is one going to memorize, internalize and actualize HaShem's TaNaKH, if they don't first turn to HaShem in repentance (in the manner of the Prodigal Son)

 ...and then demonstrate one's trust in and faithfulness to OUR Heavenly Father by doing His will and thereby become His TaNaKH made flesh? {IE-The Word made Flesh}

{{We have an insistence of teaching Torah and historical Truth}}


Rebbe Schneerson said it like this:

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"There is no truth about G-d. Truth is G-d. There is no one who learns Truth. You become Truth. There is no need to search for Truth. You have inherited it, it is in the Torah before you and it is within you. You need only learn quietness to listen to that inheritance." "People think the Torah is all about laws and customs and quaint stories, with a mystical side as well. In truth, the Torah is entirely spiritual. But when you cannot perceive the spiritual, all you see is laws and quaint stories." "Go out on a clear night and see the moon reflected in the water of a lake. Then see the very same moon reflected in a pond, in a teacup, in a single drop of water. So the same essential Torah is reflected within each person who studies it, from a small child to a great sage." "Where is the Torah? Does it reside in the heavens with the angels? Or in a parchment scroll in the ark of the synagogue? Or with the rabbis and scholars? It lives in the heart of each person who learns it, in the voice of the one who discusses it and in the life of the one who lives it." "A container is defined by its contents. A pitcher of water is water. A crate of apples is apples. A house, too, is defined by what it contains. Fill your house with books of Torah, and your house becomes a Torah. Affix charity boxes to its walls, and your house becomes a wellspring of charity. Bring those who need a warm home to your table, and your house becomes a lamp in the darkness." "You can live in a palace filled with treasures and still be poor. To be wealthy you must own the things you have. So too with poverty of the mind. You may have all the knowledge and brilliant ideas in the world, but you are still poor until they have become part of you." Excerpts taken from: "Bringing Heaven Down To Earth: Meditations and Everyday Wisdom from the Teachings of the Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson," compiled by Tzvi Freeman, pp. 155-163.

See also, First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit: Reb Zalman's Guide to Recapturing the Intimacy and Ecstasy in your Relationship with God by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi and Donald Gropman




See also, Rabbi Label Lam.




Rabbi Label Lam - Do Teshuvah Tisha BAv - (video).



Rabbi Label Lam - Emunah - (video).




Rabbi Label Lam - The Oral Torah - (video).




Rabbi Label Lam - A Time To Be - (video).



Rabbi Label Lam - The Art of Finding Good - (video).



It is taught that TESHUVAH and EMUNAH will lead one to STUDY and PRAYER.


See further, the Chumash with Rashi for Eikev, specifically Deut. 11:13.

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And it will be, if you hearken: And it will be, if hearkening you will hearken.
If you hearken to the old [i.e., if you study what you have already learned], you will hearken to the new [i.e., you will have a new and deeper understanding].

Similar is [the meaning of] "And it will be, if you forget" (Deut. 8:19): If you have begun to forget [the Torah you have learned], eventually you will forget all of it, for so it is written in the Megillah 1: "If you leave Me for one day, I will leave you for two days." - [Sifrei on Deut. 11:22, Yerushalmi Ber . 9:5, Midrash Shmuel 1]


Hence, the "New Covenant" of Jer. 31:31-34, right?


One must study and memorize in order to internalize and thereby actualize the TaNaKh.

How else does the Word become flesh and dwelling among men!?

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Mar Yeshua the Anointed, right? (Philippians 2:5).

Look at the Greek word (G2758), which is translated as "no reputation" in the KJV (Philippians 2:7), and compare it to the Hebrew word and concept of bitul.[inner.org]


Like Mar Yeshua, you too are created in the image and likeness of HaShem, but until you humble and nullify your SELF, as Mar Yeshua did, then how can you become a conduit through which Ha'Shem's Spirit can flow unabated?

Rebbe Schneerson says like this:

Quote:
"There is no truth about G-d. Truth is G-d. There is no one who learns Truth. You become Truth.
There is no need to search for Truth. You have inherited it, it is in the Torah before you and it is within you.
You need only learn quietness to listen to that inheritance."

"Where is the Torah?


Does it reside in the heavens with the angels?
Or in a parchment scroll in the ark of the synagogue?
Or with the rabbis and scholars?

It lives in the heart of each person who learns it, in the voice of the one who discusses it and in the life of the one who lives it."
It is the very DNA within' or as a famous Sage stated more than once. The Kingdom of G-d is within you.

"A container is defined by its contents. A pitcher of water is water. A crate of apples is apples. A house, too, is defined by what it contains. Fill your house with books of Torah, and your house becomes a Torah. Affix charity boxes to its walls, and your house becomes a wellspring of charity. Bring those who need a warm home to your table, and your house becomes a lamp in the darkness."

"You can live in a palace filled with treasures and still be poor. To be wealthy you must own the things you have. So too with poverty of the mind. You may have all the knowledge and brilliant ideas in the world, but you are still poor until they have become part of you."


Excerpt taken from: "Bringing Heaven Down To Earth: Meditations and Everyday Wisdom from the Teachings of the Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson," compiled by Tzvi Freeman, pp. 155-163. BTW, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth - Book II is a superior edition of the first book, but it's available online free-of-charge here.
And also read, the Chumash with Rashi for Eikev, specifically Deut. 10:16.

What is the "the blockage and covering of your heart"...? It is an unwillingness to study and pray, which are signs that one hasn't turned to Ha'Shem in repentance and is also a sign that one doesn't trust in Ha'Shem and isn't being faithful to His Commandments. So, one should do teshuvah and have emunah and study and pray anew each and every day. This is how one removes the blockage and covering of their heart and prevents one's SELF from being stiffnecked.

Quote:
command you this day: ["this day" suggests] that [the commandments] should [always] be to you as new, as though you had just heard them on this very day. — [Sifrei, 11:32]



The "New Covenant" is a daily renewal as one turns to HaShem in repentance (teshuvah) and demonstrates their trust in HaShem and faithfulness to His Commandments (emunah) as evidenced by one's study, prayer and good deeds.

I really wish that Chrisitans and Messianics would stop viewing good deeds and acts of loving-kindness and study and prayer as being "dead works of the Law."
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