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Behar 5760Volume 20 · Issue 30
Keeping the Sabbaticals
heritage and family (Vayikra 25:10). Everyone returns to his origins—to the origins of his soul, to the origins of his mission on high, to his original state of being (Safra Ditzniusa, Zohar 2:179a). This is full repentance.
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Shelach 5760Volume 20 · Issue 34
Fearsome People
Greatness of Repentance
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Ki Seitzei 5761Volume 22 · Issue 2
My Twin
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the Ten Days of Repentance are in Tishri. Rabbeinu Nissim (Rosh Hashanah 16a) explains that God began to be appeased on Rosh Hashanah, and the final appeasement was on Yom Kippur.
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Lech Lecha 5762Volume 22 · Issue 5
Transition to Blessing
Existence is the focal point of all the reward and punishment that the Creator gives. As the Rambam explains at length, reward is existence itself and punishment, in the extreme, is the deprivation of existence (Hilchos Teshuvah 8:1).
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Haazinu 5763Volume 23 · Issue 6
Dominance of Evil
Based on this, the Maharal explains the concept of the two identical goats (Derush LeShabbos Teshuvah 82b-83a).
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Chukas 5766Volume 2 · Issue 32
Distinguished Nation
“To allow one who left the world to return to it through repentance.”
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Mattos-Masei 5766Volume 2 · Issue 34
Guardian of Israel
Rather, the righteous sit with their crowns upon their heads and bask in the radiance of the Divine Presence (Berachos 17a). Indeed, the Rambam defines the crown that rests upon their heads as the knowledge they had attained (Hilchos Teshuvah 8:2).
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Vayakhel-Pekudei-HaChodesh 5767Volume 3 · Issue 26
Time Forward
rightfully, the contrast to “This” World should be “That” World. Its designation as the World to Come is that it arrives only after one focuses the present that is This World to reach there (cf. Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah 8:8).
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5766Volume 3 · Issue 4
Power of One
Israel. On its own, it would allow a person to maintain that he removed himself from the community and he is outside of it. Indeed, many people have disconnected themselves from the Community of Israel (cf. Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah 3:11), many have the status of a gentile (cf. Rambam Hilchos Shabbos 30:15). Accordingly, one who would claim to be detached from the Jewish People, the curses of Ki Savo would not address him.
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Rosh Hashanah 5766Volume 3 · Issue 5
Face of Judgment
Noting this reiteration, the sages comment (Medrash Tehillim 80:4 quoted by Rabbeinu Yonah in Gates of Repentance 1:42): “R’ Yochanan said, “We have nothing but the enlightenment of Your face.”” Only when His face radiates, we will merit deliverance; it will deliver us completely from all our suffering. Our entire focus is to inspire this radiance
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Beshalach 5768Volume 4 · Issue 19
Existing Beyond Nature
…writes concerning a person who wishes to change his ways and achieve complete repentance. One of his recommendations is, “He should change his name, meaning, “I am someone else, and I am not that person who did those deeds…
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Behaaloscha 5768Volume 4 · Issue 34
Continuity of Sinai
…ntains all that is necessary for all generations. “These are the commandments,” and the commandments that were given to us include all that man requires in all times. Prophecy was given for other reasons. The Rambam writes (Hilchos Teshuvah 4:2; 7:5), “All prophets without exception admonished Israel,” striving greatly to bring us to repentance. Additionally, they were sent to comfort us, as we find in all the comforting words of the prophets. These were the two primary tasks
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Yom Kippur 5768Volume 4 · Issue 5
Home of our Heart
The Maharal discusses a fascinating point concerning the unique Temple service of Yom Kippur (Derush LeShabbos Teshuvah page 83).
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Ki Seitzei 5768Volume 5 · Issue 2
Converging Paths
Another task of the prophets was to bring us closer to the redemption by admonishing us and by causing us to repent, as the Rambam writes (Hilchos Teshuvah 4:2), “All of the prophets admonished Israel until they repented.” Further, he writes (ibid. 7:5), “All of the prophets without exception commanded about repentance, and Israel will not be redeemed only through repentance.” This was obligatory
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Ki Savo 5768Volume 5 · Issue 3
Rosh Hashanah: Strength of Infinite Joy
The Rambam writes (Hilchos Chanukah 3:6), “There is no Hallel on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because they are days of repentance and awe and fear, not days of excessive joy.” Meaning, since they are not days of excessive joy, they are unlike the designated occasions for gladness, and Hallel is therefore not recited. His words clearly imply that only excessive
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Chayei Sarah 5769Volume 5 · Issue 7
Unanswered Question
Lord and they are literally His handiwork. Whereas all of creation was created by His utterance, Adam was created by His hand, as Rashi notes (Bereshis 1:27). Obviously, the sin was a setback, but after 130 years of repentance (Eruvin 18b), Adam gave birth to Sheis, which means foundation, for he was the foundation of the world (Bamidbar Rabbah 14:11; Ramban to Bereshis 5:3).
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Mattos-Masei 5770Volume 6 · Issue 34
Fear of Heaven
…remembrance. We mourn and fast—and the fasts were instituted for the sake of repentance, meaning to remember. In the words of the Rambam (Hilchos Ta’anis 5:1), “There are days on which all of Israel fasts due to the…
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Shemos 5771Volume 7 · Issue 15
Miracles Beyond Number
During the year, we cannot recite a praise that is revealed only on Festivals or in the Ten Days of Repentance. One who concludes the third blessing of the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer, “The holy King,” instead of, “The holy Lord,” must begin the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer anew, according to some authorities. Even those who disagree and rule that he has fulfilled
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Ki Seitzei 5770Volume 7 · Issue 2
The Sound of Life
necessary for all generations. In addition, due to that blast of the shofar, the sages ordained the sounding of the shofar throughout the entire month as well, and the ordinance of the entire month was to warn regarding repentance and to confound Satan.
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Yom Kippur 5771Volume 7 · Issue 5
Moment of Truth
To understand the inner process of the atonement that Yom Kippur affords—how it occurs and its underlying meaning—let us explain what the Maharal reveals on the subject (Derush LeShabbos Teshuvah page 83).
