There are two Bible verses where King Solomon teaches that there is no man who never sins.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- General George S. Patton

As it is in war so it is in Milchemes HaYetzer. This quote nicely somes up what the Tzadik can learn from the BT.

Anyway, diminished capacities can induce repentance.
Fear can diminish capacities.
What if one diminishes their impulses and induces a desire for discipline by enhancing their sense of logic with stimulants, is that considered diminishing the capacity to love sin, and or diminishing the emotional desires or “vigorous” ness.
Can a brain on Ritalin or adderall do an “absolute teshuva” ?
What about the age old question regarding the laundry list of drugs that fix personalities…..
Repentance can sometimes have nothing to do with a father in the sky and more to do with logical living for law lovers.

There are numerous reasons why the “vigorous” lover in the story might not have consummated his desires, when he found himself secluded with her in the same locale he had previously let his emotions get out of hand in.
Aside from 3 options referenced above, diminished capacities, fear and or repentance, there are other logical reasons generally used to determine what makes sense logically in terms of emotional discipline.
And the reasons are similar and different when it’s a woman making those choices .And the emotional repercussions may differ but not due to fear of repercussions from humans, the father in the sky, regret, and or the diminishing desires, but the enhanced logical understanding that intimate connections are complicated and require a thorough logical and rational analysis before the connection process.
For starters “repent” alone has numerous definitions as defined by Merriam Webster:
1: to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life2 a: to feel regret or contrition b: to change one’s mindtransitive verb1: to cause to feel regret or contrition2: to feel sorrow, regret, or contrition for
— re•pent•er noun
When you say “symbiotic” I’m assuming you are referring to mutualism.
But I’m not sure what “symbiotic” has to do with accomplishments in question from both individuals.
It’s not clear from your essay how the teshuvah lover has benefited from the tzadik that never sinned. And or how the tzadik benefited from the teshuvah lover.
What does the teshuvah lover’s attaining the deepest heights of spirituality due to the deepest depths of non-spirituality; have to do with the tzaddik that never sinned?
And what does the sin less state of the tzaddik have to do with the teshuvah lover.

I dont understand your assertion that the harder the fall the greater the height potential.
Are you saying that falling hard into the depths of spiritual despair can only occur if the original sparks of spirituality were at one point in a supposed very lofty position ?
But how does the original state of something prove the definite future potential of something.
Life is nothing like a trampoline.

Btw Chaiim,I’ve seen sifrei tsaddikkim that explain that in essence, Yhuda was more of the Tsaddik! Midrash says a “Malach” forced him into his act with Tamar and not his personal desire whatsoever. His greatness was in recognizing his hasty judgment and acknowledging who was “Tsodek.”

Hence HE became tsaddik!

In contrast, Yosef genuinely struggled with his tayva / lust and came out of the trial with a giant tikkun.

Sounds more like a BT, no?

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The former is passively ignoring the post while this is actively ignoring the post.