{"id":98027,"date":"2022-11-19T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98027"},"modified":"2022-11-19T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:07:53","slug":"tuned-in-to-teshuvah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/tuned-in-to-teshuvah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuned in to Teshuvah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuned in to Teshuvah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Torah-observant Jew approached me, and, with great enthusiasm cried out, \u201cRabbi David! You are my mentor! I always dreamed of meeting you, face-to-face. <em>Baruch Hashem<\/em>, I have now merited this honor!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn\u2019t recognize the man, I asked him his name. But that, too, did not ring a bell. \u201cHow can you say that I am your mentor; I don\u2019t recognize you at all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He replied with this touching story:<\/p>\n<p>Today, I look like a regular <em>ben Torah<\/em>. I try to represent the Torah community by behaving appropriately and sanctifying Hashem\u2019s Name through mitzvot. But just a few years ago, Torah and mitzvot were the farthest things from my mind. I didn\u2019t look like a Jew, and I didn\u2019t act like one.<\/p>\n<p>Then, one fateful day, which would change my life forever, I took a cab, driven by a religious Jew. The driver asked if I would mind if he would listen to a recorded speech as we rode, as he was not allowed to listen to music at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed. The driver turned on a tape, and throughout the drive, we listened to your wonderful speech, directed at <em>ba\u2019alei teshuvah<\/em>. You mentioned a case most similar to my own. Your words of inspiration penetrated my heart and brought me to thoughts of teshuvah.<\/p>\n<p>I was very moved by the recording. As I alighted from the cab, I asked the driver if he would lend me the cassette. Unfortunately, he was unable to, but promised that he would send me a similar one, which he did.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a young child, listening to his first tape, over and over again. Each time, the message entered more deeply, bringing me to higher levels of teshuvah, until I was completely transformed into a bona fide <em>ba\u2019al teshuvah<\/em>! This is why I consider you my Rav and mentor.<\/p>\n<p><em>How tremendous is the power of one recording. Just by sitting in a taxi and listening to a speech, a person\u2019s neshamah can be tuned in to Torah and teshuvah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuned in to Teshuvah A Torah-observant Jew approached me, and, with great enthusiasm cried out, \u201cRabbi David! You are my mentor! I always dreamed of meeting you, face-to-face. Baruch Hashem, I have now merited this honor!\u201d Since I didn\u2019t recognize the man, I asked him his name. But that, too, did not ring a bell. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baalei-teshuvah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}