4. Chaya Sarah 5780: The Double Cave: Finding The Cave of The Patriarchs Within Us

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/avrohom.lipszyc/videos/10157508717613257/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hachaim/4-chaya-sarah-5780-the-double-cave-finding-the-cave-of-the-patriarchs-within-us Written Lecture: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5tu9ruq9nyeu22/4.%20Chaya%20Sarah%205780%20-The%20Double%20Cave%20--Finding%20the%20Cave%20of%20the%20Patriarchs%20%28Machpelah%29%20Within%20Us.pdf?dl=0 YouTube: https://youtu.be/-2dq_sDsefg --- The modern-day issue of this lecture, based on the mystical teachings of Kabbalah and Chassidus, is to embrace the humility and beauty of having sinned in our lives, and what these experiences offer us through Teshuvah. King David in Psalms (-66:5) states, “Go and see the deeds of G-d, awesome are His plots upon mankind.” Upon this verse our sages explain that G-d plots upon mankind to sin, bringing proof that G-d had plotted that Adam should eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Why would G-d plot upon to commit sins, sins that G-d Himself prohibited us from performing?! I profess to you, that it is because second chances are the original desire of G-d. There is the original desire of G-d that man live his life performing only, “Torah and its Good Deeds.” However, what takes Torah and G--d Deeds to their true power is when they are imbued and driven by the power of Teshuvah (Return; Repentance). The truest reason for the soul descending from its utopian place in Heaven, and to descend into this imperfect world of darkness and evil, is only because in a utopian environment there can be no Teshuvah. It is only in a life of mistakes and sins that a soul can experience the omnipotence and oneness with G-d of Teshuvah. And thus, G-d plots upon mankind to sin. Bringing them to the opportunity of Teshuvah. The challenge is, however, that we do not fall into the arrogant disbelief, self-loathing and depression that we have sinned. Rather, we must be humble in the acceptance of our imperfection, in order to experience the power of Teshuvah that our imperfections, mistakes and sins offer us. This lecture is based primarily on a maamor the Rebbe delivered on this Shabbat, in 1969, exploring the mystical --and our personal and practical-- dimensions of the holy burial place of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs.