"Hashivenu Hashem Elecha Ve’Nashuva Chadesh Yamenu KeKedem" (Eichah 5:21).
Restore us to You, Hashem, that we may be restored! Renew our days as
of old.
Obviously this pasuk (verse)
speaks about Teshuva (repentance)!
Rav Chizkiyah shlit’a told us in
the name of his father, Rav Neventzhal shlit’a (the Senior Chief Rabbi of the
Old City) that Kedem it broken down
into 3 major concepts of Teshuva. Kedem is made up of 3 different letters:
Kuf=Kayin, Dalet=David, Mem=Menasheh. These are 3 major figures in the Tanach
history that made Teshuva somehow. Mem is Menasheh for Menasheh’s Teshuva that
he did. Even though Menhasheh was a cruel cruel king in the end of his days
some say he did full Teshuva and repented before Hashem.
His Teshuva, however,
was the worst Teshuva! Menasheh prayed to Hashem: “If you do not accept my
Teshuva Hashem, therefore you are equivalent to all the other gods.” The next
Teshuva discussed is the Teshuva Kayin made (which killed Hevel), Kayin asked
Hashem a crucial rhetorical question: “What, Hashem, you’re not going to
forgive me?!” And the highest possible Teshuva one can make is the same Teshuva
that David HaMelech made, which is a type of repentance one makes to change
their entire lives for Hashem. To feel Hashem’s presence everywhere and to
overall try to glue oneself to the reality that Hashem exists. 
This Pasuk comes to teach us
that no matter what type of Teshuva we do; as long as we do Teshuva, we will
have the zchut from the Rachamim of Hashem to have our Teshuva accepted! This
also shows us how much confidence we need to have in ourselves and our actions.
We need to know that even the tiniest of tiniest of a thought of Teshuva does
such wonders and creates so much positive noise in the upper worlds! Hashem
loves all of us and just wants us to enjoy the good that we can earn in this
world by getting close to him. However, it is all in our hands.
Judaism=Think.
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