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Hichot
Teshuvah
Discussion of the requirements for true
repentance. Includes the
role Yom Kippur plays, the
principle of reward and punishment, the World to Come,
Messiah, and the proper attitudes and motivations in
performing mitzvot.
THE LAWS OF REPENTANCE
These chapters discuss the single
positive commandment to confess and return to God if one sinned.
CHAPTER ONE
This chapter discusses levels of
repentance, sins which are forgiven immediately upon repentance,
and sins which are forgiven only after some time after repentance.
CHAPTER TWO
This chapter discusses complete
repentance, at what times repentance is especially received, those
sins which have to be publicized at the time of repentance, and
how to ask forgiveness from someone else.
CHAPTER THREE
This chapter describes who is
righteous, who is average and who is wicked, why the shofar is
sounded on New Year, that pious gentiles have a share in the World
To Come, the types of people who don't have a share in the World
To Come, and defines an infidel and a heretic.
CHAPTER FOUR
This chapter lists twenty-four
things that prevent repentance, and tells us that even so, there
is nothing that stands in the way of repentance.
CHAPTER FIVE
This chapter explains the concept
of free will, and how it is not opposed by God's knowledge of
everything.
CHAPTER SIX
This chapter discusses how verses
in the Torah are interpreted, and how one's existence is
apparently governed by one's actions.
CHAPTER SEVEN
This chapter discusses the ways
of a penitent, and how wonderful his level is.
CHAPTER EIGHT
This chapter discusses the reward
of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked in the World To
Come, and what existence there is like.
CHAPTER NINE
This chapter explains verses
which seem to imply that the righteous people are rewarded and the
wicked people punished in this world.
CHAPTER TEN
This chapter discusses serving
God out of love and fear, how to teach Torah to children and
ignoramuses, and those who study Torah solely for the sake of it.
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