Daily Chizuk #0272

The Rambam writes that although teshuva works any time of year, now during the Aseret Yameh Teshuva it is the most opportune time and will be accepted by Hashem immediately. We are supposed to consider ourselves Benonim, which means that our judgement is pending until Yom Kippur. If we make teshuva now, we will be inscribed in the Book of the Righteous, b’ezrat Hashem. The Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah gives us an invaluable piece of information that, if followed, will cause Hashem to overlook all of a person’s עוונות-sins. That is, to overlook when other people do evil to us – that triggers midah k’neged midah for Hashem to say, kavayachol, because you overlook, I will overlook.
During these days, we should work extra hard to forgive anybody that we have a grudge against. It will be a tremendous zechut and b’ezrat Hashem, in that merit, we will be inscribed and sealed in the Book of the Tzaddikim!