Teshuvah in a Plague

You must search and search until you find some good point within you to give you new life and happiness. When you discover the good that is still inside you, you literally swing the scales from guilt to merit…

Vaetchanan Deuteronomy 4:2

This verse expresses a fundamental axiom about the measure of our dedication to God, as told by the prophet Samuel, “listening to God is better than making sacrifices to Him.”