Machshava:

Teshuva 

Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Oros Ha'teshuvah

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How to avoid negativity and despair when faced with tsar (aggravation). How can we read seforim (books) with a positive attitude that highlight our deficiencies? Develop a she'ifa (desire) for higher madregas (spiritual levels) rather than despair their attainment. The greater we have elevated ourselves in Torah, the more gradual has to be our ascent after a yeridah (spiritual dip). Most of the neshamos (souls) nowadays are naturally great and need rapid ascent after a yeridah. Explain the big picture to potential Ba'ale teshuvah (penitents) before halachic (legal) details.