The Teshuvah of Our Generation | Yom Kippur Women's Class

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Today's class is dedicated by Dana Amira in memory of her beloved parents and grandparents, Gabriel and Selma Amira, Nissim and Suzanne Amira, Samuel H. and Dana Baruch, and for a complete and speedy recovery and a shidduch for Dana bat Selma and Agmar Hasima Tova to her and all of us. Thank you very much for your partnership and dedication and friendship and a great year to you. Thank you. So, somebody asked me a question. And the question really I felt was a really it was a sincere question. It came from a very sincere person. And I want to share this question with you and try to address it here because I think that the what this person, a woman, was articulating in her email was really something very genuine that I think many people ask or want to ask or or feel in one way or another. And what she wrote to me was that her experience of Yom Kippur every year is a very difficult one. Not so much the fasting that I'm not going to be able to address in the class. For that there's probably different methods that you know better than I. But rather what really is tough for her are the abundant confessions. The viduyim. The amount of times that Jews on Yom Kippur, especially if you daven all the tfilos, which means maariv and shacharis and mussaf and mincha and neilah, but even only one of them or two of them. Whether you follow all of the liturgy, all of the piyutim, all of the chazaras hashatz, all of the sections, or just 50% or even 10%, it's filled with constant statements and reminders about our sins and our guilt and our aveiros and our chatoim, avoinos, pshaim,

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1. 0:00Today's class is dedicated by Dana Amira in memory of her beloved parents and grandparents, Gabriel…
2. 5:37perfect. People will make mistakes, say the wrong things, do the wrong things, etc. etc. Maila,…
3. 11:46ago, that I have internalized and it's just the CD is replaying. You know, it's a…
4. 18:31vessel filled with shame and disgrace. Lo Hashem hatzedakah v'lanu boshes panim. L'ma'ancha Elokeinu asher ammi…
5. 24:39know, the 19 people who had to get onto planes knowing that they're going to hijack…
6. 30:46it. This is what we call vidui, confession. I say I'm sorry. It's not just I…
7. 36:21Gemara says in Sanhedrin that the malachim told God, it's not fair. It doesn't make sense.…
8. 42:29So, when you say oiz v'chedvah b'makomai, in Hashem's space, there's confidence and there's joy, what…
9. 48:35wanted to do. And in inside the barrack, there's a visitor who comes in, Josef Mengele,…
10. 55:16but to come to the conclusion that I am a guilty person. I'm a bad person.…

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