Chasidut su Geremia 3:14

And this is the quality of Shovavi”m, when those who are fit have the custom of fasting and crying out to blessed God with prayers and penitential liturgy. For in this season, we read in the Torah about the exile in Egypt, and their redemption, which came through their crying out, as written above. And we need to do the same now in this exile, as written above. And so: “Return, wayward children – shuvu banim shovavim” (Jeremiah 3:14, 22), for the essence of troubles and exiles – may the Compassionate One save us from them – is in a lack of knowing, which is the quality of the wayward, when everyone goes around in the world like a literally crazy wayward person, as it is said (Isaiah 57:17), “The went wayward on their [own] heart’s path.” And when a person understands all this about themselves, how they are wayward and literally crazy, because they follow the stubbornness [or: imagination] of their heart and don’t pay attention to the eternal end-point, they will certainly have pity on themselves and do a lot of crying out to blessed God, and in that way will merit, in accord with their own qualities, to understanding and knowledge, which are the essence of the means to redemption generally and specifically, for each person and each time, as is written above.

Indeed now in our own generation, after we have undergone centuries of suffering, for one to transgress the Torah he need not resort to philosophy. The shameful will simply turn away and the insolent will rise up. This is as we find in the Gemara (Sotah, 49b), “in the end of days, insolence (chutzpa) will be prevalent.” One who wants to disregard all but his own desires need not find a proof from the Torah, for who is able to tell him what to do? Just as it is a mitzvah to speak words that will be listened to, so too it is a mitzvah not to speak when you will not be heeded. Similarly, the scant remnant, “one of a city and two of a family,”¹⁶⁸Yirmiyahu, 3:14 who believe in God, in His Torah, and all its explanations, need no foundations or proofs of the existence of God from the teachings of philosophy.