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The Biggest Sin of All

Real Women, Real Torah

English - September 21, 2022 15:37 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Join us for the first of a 3-part series with Chana Hirschowitz, exploring the spiritual journey of the month of Tishrei. 


In this episode, Chana introduces a beautiful maamar from Likutei Torah that encourages us to turn inward and look at Rosh Hashana from the perspective of our own soul's experience. We discover two dimensions to the neshama; a more superficial dimension that is vulnerable to outside influences and a deeper one that is as infinite and unchanging as G-d Himself. We discover that the greatest sin of all is when we lose sight of that core identity and identify instead with the sin that we've done. And we discover that real teshuva isn't about wallowing in guilt over our past misdeeds but redefining ourselves as the pure and precious soul that we really are. 


Chana grounds her discussion in the powerful words of the maamar itself while offering her own honest, insightful and down to earth reflections.


Follow along in the maamar here.