ON REPENTANCE
According to Schatz Uffenheimer, “Pain and regret over one’s failures and transgressions became the archetypal religious sin in Hasidism, signifying that sin was measured in terms of a new criterion—namely, the psychological state of man. ‘Repentance’ as a religious value continued to play a dominant role in Hasidic thought, but it was no longer based upon remorse or regret over past deeds, but upon the consciousness that man intends to sin no more and that he does not make light of sin as defined by the halakhah [Jewish law]. The person who repents is simply required to decide that he no longer intends to perform the acts of sin”.*
*Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought, by Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer, pp. 104-105. Reprinted with permission of Magnes Press (B)
Source: Two Tzaddiks
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