Yom Kippur: The Blessing of Failure
by Rabbi Benjamin BlechRecognizing our shortcomings is the only way to achieve success in life.
Recognizing our shortcomings is the only way to achieve success in life.
The door to holiness is in you. It’s the one marked "mistakes."
Do I ask God for another chance, a chance I know I don’t deserve?
Pick up the phone and call that person you haven’t been speaking to.
Stop the blaming and start taking responsibility for your relationships.
Yom Kippur is all about remorse, contrition, and repentance. Where does gratitude fit into the picture?
On Yom Kippur we can taste spiritual perfection by relinquishing our innate ability to choose as we attempt to blend our own will with that of God's.
God is our Father in Heaven and the King of the Universe. Connecting to that source is the yearning of every human being.
Showing God how we really feel.
Meaning or randomness: confronting mutually exclusive worldviews on Yom Kippur.
Is Yom Kippur a day of atonement or a day of judgment? What is the meaning of this day on which decisions regarding life and death are finalized?
It is the holiest space in the Jewish world. It is also the holiest space inside each one of us. The Holy of Holies. Plunge the depths...
In the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, Yom Kippur had two unusual rituals in Jewish life: The entrance of the High Priest into the Holy of Holies, and the selection of twin goats. What's behind all this?