The Holiness of Your Sins

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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.

but the truth is and this is really what we want to explore today that uh sins do have a holiness all their own and yom kippur contains some of that idea now when you read the textbooks of yom kippur would seem very textbooks of yom kippur would seem very strange because all of yom kippur we atone we ask forgiveness we we say i've sinned forgive me wash away my sins remove the stains of my sins etc etc so let's explore this a little bit on a deeper level let me begin with one curious fascinating anomaly that we observe on yom kippur that is all confessions are plural that is all confessions are plural we never confess in the individual we say asham new but god knew gaza now between person and person we would not really be enthusiastic about somebody who confesses in a language that relates to the collective rather than the individual imagine somebody insulted you or somebody denigrated you somebody backstabbed you somebody did something backstabbed you somebody did something unjust to you and they want to apologize and they come to you and they say we have sinned we have stolen we have betrayed you oh get out of my house who's we i take accountability it's enough that you did it don't start blaming the collective i and yet not once in the yom kippur confessions do we speak about i asham t second the confessions in most jewish communities are done with a song and a very dramatic song you go to most synagogues in kipper and this is what you'll hear ah

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