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Daily Chizuk #0745
Holidays / Yamim Tovim
Exposing Goodness: Finding Mercy in a Hidden World
The Greatest Day Of The Year!
Yom Kippur is the greatest day of the year, it is a gift from Hashem, a day in which we can rid ourselves from all the averot which have distanced us from Hashem and have taken away our feelings of spirituality. The mitzvah of the day is teshuva, admitting our sins, regretting them and accepting upon ourselves to stop them. We must believe that with the proper teshuva, our past misdeeds will become completely erased, as if we had never done them. We begin Yom Kippur with Kal Nidreh, which is a paragraph annulling our vows. One reason why we begin this awesome day with that tefila is that the Rabbis want to teach us a lesson about the power of teshuva. When it comes to a vow, if somebody violated his vow and only afterward went to a Rabbi to make hatarat nedarim and the Rabbi sees that there is a valid reason for the hatara, then retroactively, the vow is annulled and it is considered like the man never made the vow and therefore, his violation of the vow completely disappears because there was never a vow to begin with. This is the way that teshuva works as well. We can go back in time and make it like we never sinned. It doesn’t take that much to do and the positive ramifications from it are endless – one act of teshuva can change the course of a person’s entire life, as well as his future generations.
The power of one decision to come closer to Hashem has affected generations and generations of people. Everyone has greatness inside of them. With one decision to commit to becoming stronger in
Torah and mitzvot, we can bring it out of ourselves and change the entire course of history. Let us utilize this awesome day of Yom Kippur to repent and recommit ourselves to Hashem.
Gemar Chatima Tova!
Yom Kippur is the greatest day of the year, it is a gift from Hashem, a day in which we can rid ourselves from all the averot which have distanced us from Hashem and have taken away our feelings of spirituality. The mitzvah of the day is teshuva, admitting our sins, regretting them and accepting upon ourselves to stop them. We must believe that with the proper teshuva, our past misdeeds will become completely erased, as if we had never done them. We begin Yom Kippur with Kal Nidreh, which is a paragraph annulling our vows. One reason why we begin this awesome day with that tefila is that the Rabbis want to teach us a lesson about the power of teshuva. When it comes to a vow, if somebody violated his vow and only afterward went to a Rabbi to make hatarat nedarim and the Rabbi sees that there is a valid reason for the hatara, then retroactively, the vow is annulled and it is considered like the man never made the vow and therefore, his violation of the vow completely disappears because there was never a vow to begin with. This is the way that teshuva works as well. We can go back in time and make it like we never sinned. It doesn’t take that much to do and the positive ramifications from it are endless – one act of teshuva can change the course of a person’s entire life, as well as his future generations.
The power of one decision to come closer to Hashem has affected generations and generations of people. Everyone has greatness inside of them. With one decision to commit to becoming stronger in
Torah and mitzvot, we can bring it out of ourselves and change the entire course of history. Let us utilize this awesome day of Yom Kippur to repent and recommit ourselves to Hashem.
Gemar Chatima Tova!
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