It seems the moderator nixed a post of mine. Perhaps it was a bit too heavy. I will therefore keep it light.
A person should never sin and think its o.k. because he will do teshuva for it.
But even this sin has teshuva. First you have to do teshuva for thinking it’s o.k. to sin thinking you will do teshuva. Then you can do teshuva for the sin.
My words before are based on the gemara. I was talking about aino yochol lichvos yitzro.
The gemara says three things force a person to sin, goyim, poverty, and depression etc.
Tosphos says their is a fourth, but it is something that the person himself is at fault for. The fourth is if you sin enough times that you can no longer control yourself.
Either way, lemaysah your no longer in control, and the gemarah tells you what to do.
The gemara says yilbash shechorim (be sad and mourn over your lowly state) and do the sin privately. It’s not a trick in order to live it up. It is a way to act when you can’t do anything else.
The sad fact is that we sin and continue to sin and have lost control over many things.
The above gemarah gives us the way for teshuva on these things. Be sad, be humbled, and don’t flaunt it. And be happy when HaShem purifies you with yesurin. This will put you on HaShem’s team, velo yidach memenu nidach.
Don’t lose this great opportunity to gain humility and rely on HaShem’s mercy. This may even be the reason we are in such a state.
When moshiach comes and places us in an environment of kedusha, we, like in mitzrayim, will go from the 49th level of tuma, to the greatest tahara, because we were humbled and unhappy with our previous state, and we will jump at the opportunity to be the best we can, in a world of kedusha.
None of of what I said is a heter to sin, but it is a way of dealing with the fact that we already do.
Note from YW Moderator-72. The other post was a very long post and as you say “heavy” – it was a good post, however, sometimes I like to read it over a few times before and think through it before I press the approve button. Sometimes, I give the other Moderators a chance to see it. The current and how you presented it is better than the original. </strong)