Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

SHORT ESSAY: Turning Misdeeds into Merits (Teshuvah)

/ Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Through the inner work of teshuva, some shift happens inside oneself with respect to these sins — “they become for him” something different, something better; they start out seeming like sins but they end up, in an atmosphere of love, seeming like merits.   (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: For With You is Forgiveness (Ps 130:4)

/ Yom Kippur, Meditations, Prayer

In this meditation from my Psalms group, we work with the phrase: כי עמך הסליחה, “For with You is forgiveness” (Ps 130:4), finding the parts inside of us that hold shame and regret and remorse for harm we have caused others and ourselves, and providing them with a sense of the soft bed of forgiveness

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