Rabbi, Judaism, Religious Thought, History
St. Paul, MN
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Why is #RoshHashanah before #YomKippur ? Why start the year and immediately repent? Because Rosh Hashanah is creation; only when you appreciate the marvel of the created world can you understand what you have done to diminish it. – at Los Angeles, CA
I recently posted a tweet in which I discussed Rav Kook's notion of teshuvah, which involves returning to the root of ourselves and in so doing, we return to God. But how is this accomplished? What is the path? /1
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For Rav Kook, this distance is the real source of "sin." The Days of Awe are a time when everything is erased and we are given an opportunity to start
anew, to restart the lives we were supposed to live, to live the lives we imagine. /7
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We are now in the Hebrew month of Elul, when Jews begin the process of spiritual and moral self-examination, holding ourselves to account for our shortcomings. The season of teshuvah, of repentance, has arrived. /1
“When we forget the essence of our own soul... everything becomes confused and in doubt. The primary teshuvah, that which immediately lights the darkness, is when a person returns to oneself, to the root of one’s soul... /4
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