For this reason, it is essential for us as individuals to perform the acts and the duties enumerated by our Sages as inherent in the process of teshuva, because it is through these acts that we ...

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 ...

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 ...

The key to being able to move forward and for teshuva to be effective lies in the power that human beings possess in the ability to interpret. Jews spend a great deal of time interpreting sacred ...

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 ...

(Arnold Tolchin/Chicago Herald-American) A list of Stateville’s alumni would tempt scriptwriters to white out a dull paragraph with a sonorously intoned voice-over: Floyd Cummings: Served 12 ...

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.

He says that the most effective method for one to awaken true teshuva in oneself, and by extension to perform the acts indicative of teshuva, is to shift our focus from the personal to the ...