When our inner world is foggy, all the aveiros can come in. When our inner world is clear, they stay out
Prepared for print by Rabbi Eran Feintuch
WEcan’t fathom the tragedy of the Churban. We lost a world in which Hashem’s presence was manifest. We lost the place that had the power to wipe away our aveiros. One went to the Beis Hamikdash with a bundle of aveiros and came home clean.
On Yom Kippur, the avodah in the Beis Hamikdash was so powerful that one didn’t even need to go there to achieve atonement. When the scarlet wool turned white, the wrongdoings of the entire nation were washed away.
The kedushah of the Beis Hamikdash was stronger than aveiros. We no longer have a physical place like that. But our spiritual avodah still has the strength to push our aveiros away.
It seems to us that our aveiros are always stronger. Stronger than our willpower, stronger than our yiras Shamayim. But we all have a koach that can keep the yetzer hara at bay. That koach is clarity.
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