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Three Ways to Make Yom Kippur Meaningful
Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
September 28, 2022

Yom Kippur is a day unlike any other. The energy of the day is the power of teshuvah – returning to become the person you were created to be. One of the most painful moments a human being can have is the realization that “I’ve messed up my life. I haven’t changed. The same things trigger me. I still lose it with the people I love. I haven’t grown spiritually. What’s my life about? Why am I here? What defines me?” Think about it. After you strip away all the externals – your home, your favorite possessions, your bank account – who are you? READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL Meir Soloveichik: The Meaning of a Yom Kippur Prayer For this rea­son, Kol Nidrei speaks pro­foundly to our own time. In the age of the in­ter­net, every im­petu­ous post­ing, every mis­guided tweet, every re­gret­ted ut­ter­ance sur­vives for­ever, and of­ten no amount of re­gret is suf­fi­cient to undo the stain on some­one’s rep­u­ta­tion. Kol Nidrei re­minds us to can­cel mis­takes, rather than peo­ple, ac­cept­ing gen­uine re­gret and em­brac­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of change and growth. Af­ter cen­turies of de­bate, the fu­ture of Kol Nidrei in Jew­ish liturgy is se­cure, but its lessons need to be learned once again.

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