{"id":7058,"date":"2025-09-15T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:00:47","slug":"teshuvah-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/teshuvah-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Teshuvah’s Confession…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From our Torah (Nitzavim<\/a>) we read: \u201cThe word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it\u201d (Deut. 30: 14). What \u201cword\u201d is this other than the confession<\/em> of faith in the LORD? Faith is the key, since it responds to God\u2019s voice and receives the message of hope within the heart… Faith is a matter of the will<\/em>: of choosing to receive the blessing, accepting that you are accepted, and trusting God\u2019s passion for your life. \u201cConsider Abraham; he believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness\u201d (Gal. 3:6). Faith itself is the obedience of Torah, the necessary precondition for all that follows. \u201cI am the LORD your God\u201d (\u05d0\u05b8\u05e0\u05db\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05d4\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8) is the very First Commandment. When we turn to the LORD, we esteem him as truthful, just, wise, compassionate, and worthy of our trust. “Let us then with confidence (\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2) draw near to the throne of grace (\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05e1\u05bc\u05b5\u05d0 \u05d4\u05b6\u05d7\u05b8\u05e1\u05b6\u05d3), that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:16). Faith is teshuvah’s confession of the reality of love…<\/p>\n

The students of the maggid of Zlotchov once asked him, “In the Torah we read that our father Abraham kept all the laws (Gen. 26:5), but how could this be, since they had not yet been given to him?” The maggid replied, “All that is needed is to love God. If you are about to do something and you think it might lessen your love, then you know it’s a sin; but if you think it will increase your love, then you know it’s in keeping with God’s will. That’s what Abraham did.” Amen. Faith is the confession of God\u2019s love. Abraham was justified by faith because he trusted in God\u2019s love more than anything else, and that is the essence of Torah. \u201cNow abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love\u201d (1 Cor. 13:13).
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