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Musar sur Cephania 2:1

הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּ וָק֑וֹשּׁוּ הַגּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א נִכְסָֽף׃

Recueillez-vous, tâchez de vous ressaisir, ô gens sans vergogne!

Sefer HaYashar

If you were to die the death of an animal, and not have to give an accounting, then you could rejoice in your death, but you are going to that which is more bitter than death, the place of thick darkness, a land of darkness and the shadow of death. There a great terror will fall upon you and shame will cover you, and your garment will be the clod of the worm. Brimstone will be strewn upon your body, leaving you no remnant. Behold that day is fearful and awesome, a day for which there is no ransom, a day bitter with weeping, with mourning, and with sorrow, a day of terror and crying out, a day of calamity and of groaning, a day of bitter mourning, a day when you will spread forth your lamentation from watch to watch, a day when the wrath and zeal of God will be kindled. A day when His fury will be poured out like fire, a day when pains and sorrows will be many, a day when every man will moan, his hands on his loins in utter hopelessness, a day when all of his delights will perish, a day that his soul departs and there is left the body, like a vessel filled with shame, cast away like a silent stone. Now, son of man, to whom will you escape for help? Or who will be a hiding place for you? Will you not say then, “Woe to me, what have I done, and why did I shame the word of the Lord?” Why did I turn to walk after the obstinacy of my heart? With what shall I cover myself, for I am naked? Take hold, of yourself and be abashed59This phrase is based on Zephaniah 2:1. and ashamed because of your sins, and give thanks to God while still the soul is within your body before the stars of your twilight are darkened.
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