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chavurah group in Penn- could have done, and he feels to-
sylvania once observed tally crushed. That's what teshu-
Yom Kippur at a retreat vah or repentance is all about."
Rabbi Silberberg said that a
center in the mountains.
The red and orange leaves pro- person who is repenting should
vided a gorgeous backdrop in the feel humbled and in some sense
spirit of repentance and rebirth. humiliated for the missed oppor-
When it came time for confes- tunities, for the wasted time.
Rabbi Eric Krohner, executive
sions of sins or the Viddui service,
the chavurah leaders produced a director of Ohr Somayach, added
huge white parachute. Chavurah that the issue of mechilah or for-
members stood around the rim giveness is also an important step
of the parachute, holding it down in repentance. This is the idea
that a person ask
on the floor. Instead
forgiveness from a
of beating their chest
person they have
or touching their
hurt, whether it is
heart when a sin was
face-to-face, over the
chanted, everyone
phone or in a letter.
would lift the para-
"This kind of re-
chute. If a chavurah
morse between peo-
member wanted to
ple is important," he
publicly atone for a
said, "and it's also
particular sin, he
important to be spe-
would walk quickly
cific."
under the parachute
Rabbi Dannel
while it was lifted off
Schwartz of Temple
of the ground.
Shir Shalom said
For some of the
more personal sins, Rabbi Elimelic h Silberberg: that during Yom
Kippur we repent
such as "wanton "A wonderful c hance."
not only for sins we
glances," nobody
know of, but also sins we aren't
moved.
This is an extreme example of aware of. Atonement, he said, is
repentance. Everyone has an op- about all of those "should haves"
portunity to repent during the and "could have beens," those
month of Elul, leading into the missed opportunities.
"That's why we fast," he said,
High Holidays and Yom Kippur.
Some cry, some hold their "to concentrate not on the physi-
hands in the air emotionally ask- cal but on the mental aspects of
ing for forgiveness, while the ma- life. It's not about my immediate
jority strike their chests as they needs — hunger, sex, power or fi-
quietly and personally read nances. On Yom Kippur, repen-
tance is about a sense of depth in
prayers of repentance.
There is a structure for repen- one's soul. If you are confronted
tance as defined by Maimonides with an apology, the best way to
in his Hilchot Teshuvah or "Laws do it is to do it in the way that is
of Repentance." Maimonides, also hardest to do. What's the hard-
called the Rambam, describes est way to say I'm sorry to your
three steps of repentance. The world? It's by doing it in front of
first step is to articulate or admit people. Coming to temple on this
a sin. The second step is to feel day means you are willing to say
remorse for it. The third is to ac- you missed the boat, you didn't
cept that the sin will not be com- do enough for your environment,
your world. If it's just a matter of
mitted again.
"One can only repent when reading the fixed prayers, it's
they have a proper perspective in good, but it doesn't achieve the
one's mission in life," said Rabbi purpose of repentance."
Rabbi Schwartz said the feel-
Elimelich Silberberg of Bais
Chabad Torah Center in West ings we get beyond the fixed
Bloomfield. "We as Jews believe words is the change that is
we are a chosen nation, and brought on by repentance.
"Everyone has issues they
whatever we do impacts the
world in a positive or a negative come to Yom Kippur with," he
continued. 'There's guilt, there's
way.
"We as Jews can help or hin- pain, there's anger. But to be tru-
der what's happening in society," ly spiritual in this life, I think you
he continued. "It's a chauvinistic • have to be able to deal with your
thing, but God has said it. Every issues and get over them. Yom
moment we waste, we're hurting Kippur is about getting a hold of
society. You look back at the year yourself, and becoming whole."
Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg of
that has passed, and you've seen
wasted minutes and days. And Congregation Shir Tikvah teach-
then a person realizes what he es his congregants to approach