Kabbalah for Avodah Zarah 33:14
אמר חמה ולבנה בקשו עלי רחמים אמרו לו עד שאנו מבקשים עליך נבקש על עצמנו שנאמר (ישעיהו כד, כג) וחפרה הלבנה ובושה החמה אמר כוכבים ומזלות בקשו עלי רחמים אמרו לו עד שאנו מבקשים עליך נבקש על עצמנו שנאמר (ישעיהו לד, ד) ונמקו כל צבא השמים
He then exclaimed: Sun and moon, plead for mercy for me! But they also replied: Rather than pray for you, we should pray for ourselves, for it is said, “Then the moon shall be ashamed and the sun abashed” (Isaiah 24:23). He exclaimed: Stars and constellations, plead for mercy for me! They said: Rather than pray for you, we should pray for ourselves, for it is said, “And all the hosts of heaven shall molder away” (Isaiah 34:4).
Reshit Chokhmah
The wise Rav Yehuda Chagluah also wrote in his book ‘Tzafenat Pa’aneach’ that when it says that there is no Teshuva for him it means that his Teshuva is very difficult, and it is not enough for him to do Teshuva since he needs much infliction. And he does not have Teshuva means if he does not do all that is required for him to do. It is like what the sages teach about the verse “None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life” (Proverbs 2:19), which refers to a Non-believer that it is difficult for him to leave his ways.
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