Aseret Yimei Teshuvah 5779 | October 2018
The process of forgiveness is often murky. Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne speaks about what it means to forgive as a method of healing from the past and moving on to a stronger future as we turn to God and ask the same.
As much as we focus on forgiving others, Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez argues that we must turn inwards as well and forgive ourselves for our perceived shortcomings.
Rav Kook teaches that there are two forms of teshuvah, one quick to come and the other slow to leave. Rabba Sara Hurwitz speaks of the parallels between types of teshuvah and the different shofar blasts.
Rabbanit Yael Smooha shows how teshuvah (“returning”) reflects the morning prayer praising the purity of the soul and returning to the kernel of good within ourselves.