simply amazing miracle

An excerpt from a commentary on the midrash by Rav Ezra Bick...let it blow your mind away:

"Let us return to the original midrash, describing Avraham's anxiety concerning his youthful transgressions. God tells him that his sins are like the dew; they evaporate in the sun without a trace. This, of course, is one of the principles of the Jewish idea of teshuva, repentance. Teshuva leads not only to a suspension of punishment and to a reconstitution of one's relationship with God; it annuls and uproots the very existence of the sin in one's past. In the words of the Mesilat Yesharim, negation of the will results in negation of the acts. It is now understood why Avraham, who discovered so much of God's ways on his own, was incapable of reaching this principle without a direct revelation of God. This principle is inherently alogical, going against everything on which the scientific mode of thinking is based. The past is, almost by definition, irreversible. The principle of retroactive annulment of sin is an expression of Divine miracle, itself an example of direct revelation of God. Its operation requires not merely a manifestation of providence within the world but a suspension of the laws of nature. One who is immersing himself in the waters of repentance is moving out of the world into the hands of God. Avraham, as great as he is in discovering the presence of God WITHIN the world, cannot understand this point without experiencing it."