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The Gemara relates the story (Avodah Zarah 17a) of Elazar ben Durdaya,
who actively sought relations with every prostitute in the world. Once,
upon approaching a prostitute, she let off an offensive odor. She told him
that just as it was impossible to take back the odor, so too, his teshuvah
would not be accepted. He immediately turned to all the creations so that
they should pray for him, but was rebuffed. In the end, he sat and cried
bitterly with remorse until he died. A Heavenly Voice proclaimed that he
was summoned to everlasting life in the World to Come.

We must clarify why he turned to the mountains and the heavens and
earth. How could inanimate creations assist him?
Chazal say that all the mountains wanted Hashem to give the Torah on

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