Just a Minor Sin?

You cannot experiment with sinning. Being tainted with “some sin” is actually an undermining of the whole relationship’s purity. A person’s tremendous potential is often only seen at moments of great distress and trial. Why aren’t these characteristics present and felt every day? Because our sins have resulted in our greatness being shackled. In moments of ordeal, those shackles fall away naturally. When a person is totally focused in learning Torah, the person in his potential, in his pure state, comes to the fore