He engraved the world, but it did not stand, until He created Teshuva repentance. Following this, He consulted with the Torah . . . We return to decipher the picture in the midrash as we did before, and we receive an orderly, profound, and instructive ideological structure. From the religious point of view, the world stands upon Torah, and the Torah stands upon Repentance. The Torah positions the world within the religious picture.
Repentance positions the Torah within the complete religious picture.
B. Weakness of the will, performing the evil act, even as the doer is cognizant that, from that same specific viewpoint, the act is evil. The complex ability to intend to do good and to fully realize the good intention. The totality of these characteristics lies where ability and weakness converge. Man, by nature, has the outstanding and amazing ability to avoid evil and to do good on the basis of straightforward awareness and resolute decision. At the same time, man's nature is marked by a weakness, outstanding and troubling, for departing from the right path and doing wrong despite the clear awareness, without resolute decision.