{"id":98814,"date":"2022-11-20T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98814"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:56:12","slug":"wagonloads-of-penitence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wagonloads-of-penitence\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagonloads of Penitence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wagonloads of Penitence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An observant Jew, whose family keeps Shabbat and learns Torah, once came to me. In the past, he was as far from a Torah lifestyle as north from south. He and his wife lived with wild abandon. Their life was self-contradictory. On the one hand, they did acts of kindness, but on the other hand, they committed every sin in the Book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat brought you to do teshuvah?\u201d I wondered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, we happened to hear words of inspiration which turned our lives upside-down. We realized that we were walking in the wrong direction. Eventually, we did complete teshuvah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee Hashem\u2019s wonderful <em>chessed<\/em> with you,\u201d I told him. \u201cIn His infinite mercy, He led you to hear that speech which brought you back to Him. Certainly, you must have done a big mitzvah beforehand, to deserve such a large dose of <em>siyata di\u2019Shemaya<\/em>. From on High, they saw that you wished to go in the right path. Therefore, you were led there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man agreed with me. He said that he had heard the speech in the middle of Yom Kippur; afterwards, he decided to make a change in his life.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is precisely what Chazal meant by the statement (Shir Hashirim Rabbah 5:3), \u201cHashem told Bnei Yisrael: My sons, open for Me an opening in teshuvah the size of a needle-hole, and I will open for you openings which wagons can enter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagonloads of Penitence An observant Jew, whose family keeps Shabbat and learns Torah, once came to me. In the past, he was as far from a Torah lifestyle as north from south. He and his wife lived with wild abandon. Their life was self-contradictory. On the one hand, they did acts of kindness, but on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25758,"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":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavenly-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98814","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=98814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}