Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quotation for Yoma 171:14

א"ר חמא (בר) חנינא גדולה תשובה שמביאה רפאות לעולם שנא' (הושע יד, ה) ארפא משובתם אוהבם נדבה

Of him does Scripture say: And He said unto me: Thou art My servant, Israel, in, whom I will be glorified.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XLIX, 3.');"><sup>21</sup></span> But if someone studies Scripture and Mishnah, attends on the disciples of the wise, but is dishonest in business, and discourteous in his relations with people, what do people say about him? ' Woe unto him who studied the Torah, woe unto his father who taught him Torah; woe unto his teacher who taught him Torah!' This man studied the Torah: Look, how corrupt are his deeds, how ugly his ways; of him Scripture says: In that men said of them,: These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of His land.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XXXVI, 20.');"><sup>22</sup></span> R'Hama B'Hanina said: Great is penitence, for it brings healing to the world, as it is said: I will heal t backsliding, I will love then, freely.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hos. XIV, 5.');"><sup>23</sup></span>

Takanat HaShavin

Collection regarding matters regarding repentance to those who repent from Jacob. In the Gemara Yoma [86a], "Great is repentance etc." see ibid. there are 7 saying regarding the greatness and advantages of repentance. And it is known that repentance follows understanding of the heart as is written "and their hearts will understand and they will repent" and because of this it said that repentance is after understanding as they [the Talmudic Sages] said in Megillah [17b]. It it also known that there are 7 levels in the instantiation of an action from understanding of the heart until completion of the action which correspond to the essential 7 sefirot [revealed in this lower world] Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet,Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut and corresponding to them is all the lists of 7 and so too the 7 greatnesses of repentance: "[Great is repentance] that it brings healing to the world (Yoma 86a)" and it appears to me that the healing of forgiveness in accordance with the language of the verse "I will heal their backsliding" (Hosea 14:5)
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