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Well, we have already reached the month of Elul, and we are approaching Rosh Hashanah in great strides. In fact, every soul, everyone sitting here, needs to go through three types of judgments. First, we must prepare ourselves for this, both mentally— since it is going to happen whether you like it or not—and also in terms of merits, amends for debts, repentance, remorse, confession, atonement rituals, prayers for forgiveness, and everything else included in that system. And what if a person does not prepare for this? The righteous would prepare themselves for it and be terrified, while the wicked prepare nothing and remain as carefree as can be. So it is always a minimum, at least what we can do, what is called damage control. We do the minimum—the minimum, of course, is to gather merits, repent for the past, take upon ourselves good resolutions, do repentance, visit the graves of the righteous, perform atonement rituals, start studying Torah more seriously, stop speaking evil, stop with indecency , stop with the internet, sit more and engage in Torah, and help others more. Whatever our Sages taught us, we have nothing more than that. The Holy One, blessed be He, does not come with complaints against His creatures, and also to make amends for the past—and each person has their own amends. If they are single, they do not perform specific amends at the moment; the most correct amends is to sit and engage in Torah. But if they are married, then every righteous person knows the soul of his beast; a person knows where he has sinned and needs to go and perform a rectification, go to a sage who will tell him exactly what needs to be rectified, how, in what manner, and when. But these are things that a

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