Teshuvah

SEFER HACHAIM: THE BOOK OF LIFE

Discovering Meaning and Joy through a Life of Torah Observance


Sefer HaChaim



TABLE OF CONTENTS and SAMPLE CHAPTERS


CHAPTER ONE - THE BOOK OF LIFE

1. THE RETURN TO LIFE

2. INSCRIBED FOR LIFE

3. TESHUVAH INSPIRED BY LOVE

4. APPRECIATING HASHEM’S KINDNESS

5. THE PERFECT SELF

6. FAITH IN THE POWER OF TESHUVAH

7. THE INNER POINT OF HOLINESS

8. HUMILITY - THE KEY TO ALL THAT IS GOOD

9. THE AGE OF TESHUVAH

10. THE PROMISE OF HOPE

11. THE FINAL TEST



CHAPTER TWO - AND THE LOST SHALL RETURN

12. THE DARKNESS OF EGYPT

13. DARKNESS HERALDS THE LIGHT

14. THE STATUTES OF CREATION MIRROR THE STATUTES OF THE TORAH

15. FORTITUDE TO AWAIT THE REDEMPTION

16. PREPARING FOR REDEMPTION



CHAPTER THREE - THE LIGHT AMIDST THE DARKNESS

17. THE CLOUDS OF GOLUS

18. THE TZADDIKIM ENLIGHTEN OUR EYES

19. AND YOU SHALL LIVE BY THEM

20. HUMBLE SIMPLICITY

21. YAAKOV’S DESCENDANTS LIVE ON IN HIS MERIT



CHAPTER FOUR - THE ROLE OF THE TZADDIK

22. THE IMAGE OF YAAKOV

23. DRAWING STRENGTH FROM OUR FOREFATHERS

24. A MODEL OF FORGIVENESS

25. THE SACRIFICE OF THE RIGHTEOUS

26. YEHUDAH DREW CLOSE - A YID DRAWS CLOSE TO HASHEM

27. A NOBLE THOUGHT IS A KIDDUSH HASHEM



CHAPTER FIVE - THE SLEEP OF EXILE

28. I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART IS AWAKE

29. TZADDIKIM LIVE ON AFTER THEIR DEATHS

30. DRUNK, BUT NOT FROM WINE

31. AWAKEN, O SLEEPERS FROM YOUR SLUMBER

32. RISING FROM THE SLEEP OF DESPAIR



CHAPTER SIX - ETERNAL YOUTH

33. THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESS

34. FROM THE HOUSE OF PRISON, HE WENT OUT TO RULE

35. YOSEF’S SUPERFICIAL DESCENT

36. YISROEL IS A CHILD, BELOVED BY HASHEM

37. THE YOUTHFUL ELDERS

38. CHILDREN ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR NATION



CHAPTER SEVEN - CHANUKAH: THE VICTORY OF LIGHT OVER DARKNESS

39. A NATION OF NOBLEMEN

40. THE DARKNESS OF THE GREEK EMPIRE

41. ILLUMINATING THE DARKNESS

42. THE POWER OF RENEWAL

43. THEY RESTED ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH



CHAPTER EIGHT - RECLAIMING THE PAST

44. CONSTANT RENEWAL

45. SERVING HASHEM WITH SINCERITY

46. FINDING FAVOUR IN HASHEM’S EYES

47. PURITY OF WILL

48. THE FIRST THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

49. THE BEGINNING AND THE END

50. LONGING FOR MITZVOS

51. OPPORTUNITIES TO RECTIFY THE PAST

52. WHO WANTS LIFE?

53. THE TORAH IS THE ELIXIR OF LIFE

54. REVIVAL THROUGH TORAH

55. CORRECTING THE PAST

56. RESURRECTION OF LIFELESS DEEDS

57. THE DEW OF YOUTH

58. TESHUVAH FOR MITZVOS

59. ONE HOUR BEFORE PRAYER AND ONE HOUR AFTER

60. THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR FATHERS

61. EMULATING THE RIGHTEOUS

62. THE TZADDIK’S YAHRTZEIT - A ROSH HASHANAH OF INTROSPECTION



CHAPTER NINE - THE GATES OF THE HEART

63. GUARDING THE GATES OF THE HEART

64. SELFISH DESIRE LEADS TO HERESY

65. THE SPLITTING OF THE RED SEA AND THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK

66. AMALEK’S FOLLY

67. THE SOUL HEALERS

68. THE PASSING OF THE RIGHTEOUS

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