(Devarim 31:17) The Ramban expounds further that although the lack of a total confession inhibits complete teshuva, the regret for one’s sins is powerful enough to alleviate the severe ...

Rav Kook in Orot HaTeshuva says that the initial sparks of Teshuva, repentance, are undetectable, existing far beneath the levels of human consciousness. In many places, Rabbi Sacks connects the ...

Rabbeinu Yona in Shaarei Teshuva (3:17) teaches us that the sublime virtues in Judaism (e.g. Talmud Torah, “V’halachta Bidrachav – following in His ways) were given over as Mitzvot Asei ...

RAMAPO -- A state judge has annulled Ramapo's approval of a private school operating in the semi-rural residential neighborhood of Sky Meadow Road, a concern of neighbors for several years.

Our time is one of great upheaval. Presently, Israel is defending itself from enemies bent on destroying the Jewish State, Heaven forbid. While we know that this war has come to advance the ...

It is a day that might seem filled with regret and remorse. Yet when speaking of the laws of Teshuva, Maimonides speaks of another kind of Teshuva, a Teshuva of resolve, a Teshuva of creation.

I do my best to keep Shabbas and Yontiff strictures. Still, I never thought of myself as a “baal teshuva” in the sense that I was raised wrong or beat myself up over doing things I don’t ...

BEN: The shofar acts like an alarm clock. It wakes everybody up in the synagogue.So anybody that would hear it, would remember to do teshuva, to repent, to return to their maker for a good year ahead.