Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The book explores repentance, separating it from sin and forgiveness, highlighting its importance in Jewish culture. It emphasizes repentance as a process of healing, honesty, and returning to one's true self, and the power to choose good over evil.
sin is about pretending that something is true when in fact it is not. Idolatry is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not. And then he wrote doing teshuv...
— Episode: [Unedited] Louis Newman with Krista Tipp...
Episode: [Unedited] Louis Newman with Krista Tippett
The book explores repentance, separating it from sin and forgiveness, highlighting its importance in Jewish culture. It emphasizes repentance as a process of healing, honesty, and returning to one's true self, and the power to choose good over evil.
sin is about pretending that something is true when in fact it is not. Idolatry is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not. And then he wrote doing teshuva, which is repentance, is all about choosing truth over deception.
Repentance preceded the creation of the world.
when we don't own our transgressions when we run from them...Our immediate instinct often is to run away from it or to hide it or to lie about what we did wrong...to do repentance is to be free of that.
the person who has sinned and repented is actually on a higher level than the person who's never sinned at all.
Repentance cannot be comprehended rationally. It does not really make sense, even the angels do not understand what repentance is.
Episode: [Unedited] Louis Newman with Krista Tippett
This book explores Jewish ethics and theology, particularly the concept of repentance, differentiating it from sin and forgiveness, and emphasizing its importance in personal and communal healing. The author discussed his personal journey in recovery as intertwined with his academic study of repentance.
I became aware that you know there's there's work to do here and and there's a kind of a wholeness that's missing when you Try to live your life always in that place of Perfection or striving for perfection
sin is about pretending that something is true when infected is not Eidolatory is is idolatry is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not
doing to shoe for which is repentance is all about choosing truth over deception
I think repentance really is about coming to terms with who we really are
Repentances is different from talking about you know moral obligation or moral condemnation or moral reckoning in the way we sometimes talk about sin But that it is in fact about gaining freedom gaining moral freedom