Parshas Lech Lecha: Breaking Free from Past Mistakes

0:01 Sometimes life can feel like we're running a marathon wearing a big old baggy, hand-me-down, soaking wet sweatshirt. We feel held back by the Yatesahara, by our struggles. We're not running at the pace and the speed that we had hoped. It feels like we're racing in Mario Kart. Perhaps this muscle will be lost. On some of the audience, life is like Rainbow Road that one wrong turn, or perhaps turning too much, will send us flying off of the path. In the 2023, it seems, the rude awakening and the midlife crisis seems to come way before a midlife and that one acknowledges that sin is inevitable, that failure will happen and a lot more frequently than success is in triumph.

1:02 So to learn how to cope with struggles and sin is crucial. This is one of the most powerful ways to do it. From the Sverno based on the epic story and voracious of Kayan and Hevel, I imagine it's not even a bad idea if we should memorize these powerful words from the Great Risham. See, hashem has now come to Kayan and says Kayan, why are you angry and why are you depressed? He says right after he just murdered his brother out of jealousy. Hashem says to Kayan Halo am teitaav sayis, if you rectify your ways, if you repent from this horrible action, then there is uplift, there is greatness ahead of you.

1:57 You'll be pardoned. But if not, then sin crouches at the door and while sin is very much this cocktail of anger and depression, hashem the great teacher, the great Malaamid. He tells one of the very first sinners that why are you depressed? And explains this. Sverno, listen to this. Hashem's advice was kishiesh l'kilkel. When a person has a certain destruction, a sin, he messed up a failure. But there is azatakana, there is a way to rectify it, to improve. Well then, ain roi, lehit stah der, lehit stah er. It is unacceptable for him to brood al-Masha'ovar on the past.

2:40 I will roi, but it is fitting, it's a must. Lehit stah der to strive lahasak and to reach atikun lausid, to do better in the future so that one does not fall back to that sin and he reaches success in the future. But dwelling seems to be unacceptable and appropriate, because if there is a way to rectify the situation, to reach out and get help, to find a book on the matter, to do chuva, well then dwelling and struggling and feeling down will not be tolerated and is the total wrong and unacceptable response to sin.

3:27 Hello, imtaytav sa'es, greatness is right around the corner and in our generation, it seems, for all the different struggles that one may have, we have double the amount of help to reach out for. Somebody struggles with ex-sin? Then there's an app for that, sin number y, letter y. There's a book about that. One needs an organization for sin z. There's an organization for that. One needs a little bit of money maybe to help him with the situation. There's probably a Jewish charity for that. So all the sins in front of us in this generation are so prevalent and truthfully sitting behind every corner.

4:11 The help and the success and the tikun that we can reach out for, inquire about, strive to improve in our lives, it's right there, for greatness is there for the taking. Hello Imtaytav sa'es. Greatness is there. So don't dwell. We move on and we seek to correct our ways and do better in the future. That is how we cope with sin.