Repentance
Embrace Yom Kippur with joy, not sorrow as prayer is today’s greatest offering
A sacrifice for a deliberate sin is never atoned, but heartfelt prayer does.
Teshuva is an emotional landscape
Yom Kippur 2024: Reconciling our personal journeys and collective experiences - opinion
Why I spent Yom Kippur protecting Palestinian villagers from settler violence - opinion
Our greatest sin is emissions: We must repent for climate change - opinion
The State of Israel is part of a global ecocide trend of doubling down on fossil fuels at a time when there needs to be instead a speedy move away from oil and gas to renewables.
Yom Kippur: May God forgive Jews for forgetting about him - opinion
Verbalizing erroneous ways helps concretize the painful realities that we would rather not consider.
Yom Kippur: Charity as a path to repentance - opinion
The obligation to give charity is based on both our need to take care of each other and a recognition that we are just the custodians of money.
Yom Kippur: Opportunity for forgiveness
People who can forgive those who have wronged them demonstrate a noble and humble soul. In doing so, they receive the appropriate treatment from God.
'Teshuva': How can one atone for their sins and get God's forgiveness?
While people should in fact do teshuva for all their sins, they should not be paralyzed by the enormity of the work that needs to be done.
The sins of Israel: Why the Netanyahu government must repent - opinion
Is this the end of the State of Israel – and by extension, the Jewish people – as we know it? Can we survive a constitutional crisis? The coalition has so many sins, it's hard to know where to start.
Yom Kippur: Time for a spiritual reboot for the Jewish people - opinion
Yom Kippur is the single greatest opportunity we have to rekindle the flame within us, to rededicate ourselves to the holy mission each and every one of us shares.
Your secret sins behind closed doors infect the world in real-time - opinion
What happens online quickly influences what happens in real-time. Our world is angrier and ruder, in part because of the way we speak to one another on the net.
Corrupt, amoral religious Jews in US, Israel – repent for political sins - opinion
So many religious politicians have behaved so irreligiously for so long that it often seems easier to believe that the more religiously Jewish you are – the less politically ethical you are.
Yom Kippur: 4 big ideas for Israelis to reflect on during the fast day
Yom Kippur is not just a personal day, it is a public day that invites us to contemplate various aspects of our collective life.
Yom Kippur: A snowy day at the laundromat
Isaiah depicts two very different metaphors for whitening our red sins – snow and laundered wool. How do these two metaphors illustrate the experience of repentance?