The depth of the Hebrew word Shoov

Know that turning your back on sin is only a small part of repentance. Repentance is not an intellectual concept of turning your back on sin or even the physical act of turning your back on sin because when you sin, you are a Vav, you are connected to someone. You not only sinned against heaven, you only sinned against your wife, you sinned against your friend, you sinned against your fellow men, which means that you cannot turn your back and not commit that sin anymore, but you have to correct it. You stole something from that person, you must give it back. You cannot just intellectually tell those you have offended that you will never do it again.

You have to return what you have stolen. You owe something to that person. The difference between Hebrew and Greek thought is that the Greek concept is philosophically and mentally telling themselves that they will never offend someone again. But 24 hours later they are doing it again. Now we are like that too. It is because we have all been taught from the Greek mindset that repentance is saying “I will never do it again” and proposing in our hearts that we will never do it again and even write it down. If we did it like that, Yahweh, if we look at the Hebrew concept, the Hebrew understands that there is a credit system where you took something out of someone’s bank, stole it, and you just can’t say you won’t steal it. never more.

The Torah says that when you steal, you must return it seven times. That makes it better. In Greek, to say that you will never steal again and if you are really spiritual you give back what you stole, but remember that giving back what you stole does not make that person happy because you broke it. You didn’t just steal it, you broke it. A good example would be when you remove an organ from a body. In that case, you’re ripping things off of him. Even if you have a skilled and resourceful surgeon, there will be points involved, it is difficult, there is time involved. You are invested and totally invested. You take something from someone and you have to give it back seven times. There is work involved, it is difficult. It will definitely cost you something.