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This Week’s Dvar Torah

Yom Kippur: No more excuses

In the “confessional” (Vidui) section of the Yom Kippur service, we include a long list of sins that we have committed. One of the confessions we make is “al cheit she-chatanu lefanekha be-yetzer ha-ra”, “for the sin which we have committed before You with the evil inclination.” 

This confession seems quite odd. After all aren’t all sins the product of the yetzer ha-ra (evil inclination)? Do we not commit every sin because of our inability to control our negative impulses? To what particular kind of sin, then, do we refer to when we confess “the sins we’ve committed with the evil inclination”?

Rav Yaakov Kuli, in his Me-am Lo’ez explains that this refers to the tendency that we have of rationalizing our misdeeds. We blame our mistakes on others, or we rationalize that we are too weak to overcome the sins temptation. We stop believing in our ability to overcome doing wrong. That is what the yetzer hara does, it tricks us into believing this lie.

Rav Tzadok of Lublin, in his Tizdkat Ha-tzadik (154), remarked that just as we must believe in Hashem’s ability to forgive us for our sins, we must also believe in our ability to overcome sin.
When we say, “for the sin which we have committed before You with the evil inclination”, we are admitting that we stopped believing in ourselves.

We are taking the bull by the horns and saying on Yom Kippur the blaming ends. No more rationalizing our misdeeds. Today I turn over a new page.

May we all merit to forgive and be forgiven on this Yom Kippur.

Wishing you all
Shabbat Shalom
Shana Tova
Gmar Chatima Tova
Rabbi Yosef Benarroch
Adas Yeshurun Herzlia

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Yom Kippur – The ceremony of the goats and the Abarvanel

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This Week’s Yahrzeits

Elul 22	September 8, 2023	Rose Greenberg
Elul 23	September 9, 2023	Rosa Reiss
Elul 24	September 10, 2023	Thelma Moscovitch

In loving memory we remember them. May their memory be blessed !

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