Daily Chizuk #0991

Rav Yechezkel from Kuzmir once said, even if a person was on his way to shul on Erev Yom Kippur, if his friend would stop him and ask if he could go for a walk with him because there is something that is bothering him and he would love to be able to speak his heart and remove the worry, the man should say yes and go with him because the goal of Yom Kippur is teshuva, and fulfilling the great mitzvah of ואהבת לרעך כמוך, which is a klal gadol b’Torah, is an enormous zechut and will help fix all the times during the year that we ignored people instead of helping them. At this time, we need every zechut we can get.
When we are asked for forgiveness, if we can give the people asking the benefit of the doubt and wholeheartedly forgive them, then b’ezrat Hashem we will also be forgiven and we will also be judged favorably by Hashem.
Tizku l’shanim rabot and g’mar chatima tova