Levush Orach Chaim, 596
It was normal to go to place that had live fish. To remember that we are like these live fish, who are ensnared suddenly in a net. So are we ensnared in the abyss of death and judgement. And in doing so, we will contemplate repentance more.
It was normal to go to place that had live fish. To remember that we are like these live fish, who are ensnared suddenly in a net. So are we ensnared in the abyss of death and judgement. And in doing so, we will contemplate repentance more.
Shame is the intensely painful experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love or belonging.
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
-Brené Brown, The Gift of Imperfection
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
-Brené Brown, The Gift of Imperfection
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
וואין ספק לאדם שהחטאים אינם משאות שיעתקו מגב איש אחד לגב איש אחר אבל אלו המעשים כולם משלים להביא מורא בנפש עד שתתפעל לתשובה - כלומר שכל מה שקדם ממעשינו נקינו מהם והשלכנום אחרי גוינו והרחקנום תכלית ההרחקה:
There is no doubt that sins cannot be carried like a burden, and taken off the shoulder of one being to be laid on that of another being. But these ceremonies are of a symbolic character, and serve to impress people with a certain idea, and to induce them to repent; as if to say, we have freed ourselves of our previous deeds, have cast them behind our backs, and removed them from us as far as possible.
(יט) יָשׁ֣וּב יְרַֽחֲמֵ֔נוּ יִכְבֹּ֖שׁ עֲוֺֽנֹתֵ֑ינוּ וְתַשְׁלִ֛יךְ בִּמְצֻל֥וֹת יָ֖ם כָּל־חַטֹּאותָֽם׃
(19) The Divine will take us back in love; will cover up our iniquities, You will hurl all our mistakes into the depths of the sea.
(ה) מִֽן־הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ עָנָ֖נִי בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב יָֽהּ׃
(5) In distress I called on the LORD; the Lord answered me and brought me relief.