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Haazinu 5757Volume 18 · Issue 5
Days of Repentance
The Rambam writes (Hilchos Teshuvah 2:6), “Although repentance and prayer are always beneficial, they are even more beneficial during the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when they are accepted immediately, as it says (Yeshayahu 55:6), “Search out God when he is found.”
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Shoftim 5766Volume 3 · Issue 1
Promise of Repentance
By sounding the shofar on Rosh Chodesh Elul, we begin the process of our Acceptance of the Torah from that day. Additionally, we continue to sound the shofar throughout the month to alert ourselves to repentance and to confound Satan. This too is to prepare ourselves for the Acceptance of the Torah, to ensure that we receive it properly.
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האזינו תשנ"זמהדורא י״ח · ענין ה׳
עשרת ימי תשובה
יחיד וציבור הרמב"ם ז"ל (פ"ב מה' תשובה ה"ו) אע"פ שהתשובה והצעקה יפה לעולם, בעשרה הימים שבין…
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דברים תשס”זמהדורא ג׳ · ענין ל״ט
פתיחת דרכי תשובה
תשעה באב ויום הכפורים בגמ' פסחים (דף נ"ד ע"ב) יש נידון אם תשעה באב נגזר מלכתחילה להיות…
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בא תשס”חמהדורא ד׳ · ענין י״ח
תשובה מתוך העתיד
התחלת התורה התורה כתב רש"י מדברי חז"ל וז"ל אמר רבי יצחק לא הי' צריך להתחיל את התורה אלא…
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Vayelech 5755Volume 13 · Issue 4
Enflaming the Embers
The inclusion of the Fast of Gedaliah in the Ten Days of Repentance is obviously because the tragedy happened then. But how it integrates with the course of these days is not apparent. It seems unrelated. It is a communal fast like other communal fasts. It is indeed enumerated with them, as it says (Zechariah 8:19), “The fast of the fourth,” meaning the fourth month, the Seventeenth of Tammuz, “and the fast of the fifth
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Vayelech 5752Volume 15 · Issue 5
Beyond the Protocols of Mercy
Cause for Repentance
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Yom Kippur 5758Volume 19 · Issue 5
Kiss of Purity
In the words of the Rambam (Hilchos Teshuvah 1:3), “Nowadays when the Holy Temple is not standing and we have no altar for atonement, there is nothing but repentance.
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Vayelech 5773Volume 9 · Issue 5
Hidden Wisdom
God created two orders in the world. One order is the natural order, based on the act of creation, which consists of seven days—six days followed by the Sabbath. Another order is the order of repentance, which consists of ten days, and the tenth is the Sabbath of Sabbaths (Vayikra 16:31, 23:32).
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Yom Kippur 5774Volume 10 · Issue 4
Behind the Smokescreen
The Talmud states (Yoma 85b) and it is cited as law (Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah 4:1) that one who says, “I will sin and I will repent,” is not given the opportunity to repent. In other words, one who transforms repentance into the cause of sin cannot repent.
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Behaaloscha 5750Volume 14 · Issue 31
Keep Hearing
It must be so because in the literal sense, the Hebrew word for repentance, teshuvah, means return. Repentance was the only way we were able to return somewhat to our original level and regain what had been taken from
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Haazinu 5761Volume 21 · Issue 6
Embrace the Moment
The Ten Days of Repentance encompass the Day of Judgment and the Day of Atonement, and days of prayer.
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Ki Sisa-Parah 5769Volume 5 · Issue 21
Essence of Prayer
Yet they fasted and donned sackcloth, which are acts of repentance. In the plain sense, to repent means to return to the Event of Mount Sinai and become Acceptors of the Torah, as we pray, “Return us, our Father, to Your Torah.” From this, we distanced ourselves through
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5760Volume 21 · Issue 4
Be Righteous
The Rambam writes (Hilchos Teshuvah 3:1-2), “Every human being has merits and sins. He whose merits exceed his sins is righteous. He whose sins exceed his merits is wicked. If they are equal, he is of intermediate status. The same applies
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Yisro 5758Volume 19 · Issue 19
Arriving at Sinai
“The reason is to compare their journey from Rephidim to their arrival in the Sinai Desert. Just as their arrival in the Sinai Desert was in repentance, so too, their journey from Rephidim was in repentance.”
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Behar-Bechukosai 5767Volume 3 · Issue 30
Shavuos: Day of Judgment
…produced, we are given the opportunity to produce more (Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah 9:1). This is the judgment of Shavuos, and this is how the judgment is decided. Of this, the Mishnah states, “On Shavuos, concerning the…
