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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the strength, clarity and emuna of Bat-El bat Tziona who recently was widowed by her young husband who was tragically killed in a car accident. Now left with three small children, may Hashem guide her path with special love, care and attention and may no one in Klal Yisrael know of any more sorrow, Amen.
One of Hashem’s 13 middot of Rachamim is ‘Noseh Avohn v’Pesha (Hashem is the ‘carrier’ of sins)’. Each sin creates a prosecuting angel. Each creation must be sustained for it to exist. The angels created by our transgressions come before Hashem and demand sustenance. According to the strict letter of the law the person who created the angel must nourish its needs. Yet if that were the case he would be subject to harsh pain or death. Hashem, in His Infinite Compassion ‘feeds’ the angel until one of three things occurs to that person: teshuva is done, difficulties arise or chas v’Shalom gehinnom comes to remedy.
The lesson here is deep and heart-stirring. Hashem ‘accepts’ to sustain the evil creature that was created through a person’s sin all the while patiently waiting for him to do teshuva so that he may repair the damage he initiated and caused Hashem to bear.
‘Ve’Oveir al Pesha (Hashem passes over sins)’- once a transgression is committed there is no ‘natural’ means in which the consequences can be overturned. The destructive angel that was created to destroy the transgressor is not going away. Nonetheless Hashem gives Klal Yisrael the ability to do teshuva which can put an end to the angel altogether. By doing teshuva Hashem forgives us, we clean our soiled soul and erase the effect caused by the sin.
Thank you Hashem for the gift of teshuva.
