**Yom Kippur – Harav Yitzchok Breitowitz, Rabbi Dovid Kaplan & Rabbi Yitzchok Reichman — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/yom-kippur-rabbi-discussion/ Exploration of Yom Kippur's joyous meaning, the scapegoat ritual, and overcoming negative self-labeling for spiritual growth. ## Key Takeaways - Yom Kippur is a joyous opportunity for atonement and spiritual renewal. - Both good and bad inclinations start equally; choice and labeling define our path. - Negative self-labeling is a major barrier to growth and teshuvah. - The Yetzer Hara can mislead by pushing excessive religious zeal or discouraging repentance. - Perseverance in spiritual effort is vital despite difficulties or external discouragement. ## What the video covers - Yom Kippur is traditionally seen as somber but is actually a joyous day of atonement and forgiveness. - The ritual of the two identical goats—one sacrificed and one sent to the desert—symbolizes the human choice between good and evil. - The scapegoat teaches that no one is inherently bad; negative self-labeling limits spiritual growth. - The Yetzer Hara (evil inclination) can both block and push towards mitzvot, sometimes harming health and focus. - R' Nachman explains the Satan behind us discourages teshuvah by telling us we are unworthy, which is more dangerous than the Satan that entices sin. - We must reject negative self-labels and remember everyone has the capacity to be righteous. - A story of a king’s tower illustrates the importance of perseverance in spiritual growth despite challenges and mockery. - The daily prayers ask for removal of obstacles from both in front and behind, symbolizing challenges to spiritual progress. - The video emphasizes the importance of sincere effort in mitzvot and teshuvah, no matter how small. - Yom Kippur is a unique time when God actively initiates forgiveness and spiritual renewal. ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction to Yom Kippur and its joyous nature 2. 02:02 The significance of the two identical goats 3. 03:55 The Yetzer Hara’s dual role in mitzvot 4. 05:52 The danger of negative self-labeling and spiritual growth 5. 07:40 Story of the king’s tower and perseverance 6. 09:33 Encouragement to continue mitzvot despite difficulties 7. 18:40 Conclusion: Yom Kippur as a time of divine forgiveness and renewal Answers ## Questions about this video Why is Yom Kippur considered a joyous day despite its somber reputation? Yom Kippur is actually the happiest day of the year because it represents forgiveness and atonement, allowing people to become one with God and renew themselves spiritually. What is the meaning of the two identical goats in the Yom Kippur service? The two identical goats symbolize the human choice between good and evil, showing that no one is born inherently bad or good, but labeling and choices determine our spiritual path. How does negative self-labeling affect spiritual growth according to the video? Negative self-labeling creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that limits growth, making people feel unworthy of teshuvah or spiritual progress, which is a major obstacle to overcoming the Yetzer Hara. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:12 Speaker A [music] [music] We are approaching the [music] holiest day of the year. Uh, the day of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, the day of forgiveness. [music] And, uh, it's an interesting thing. Many of us look at Yom Kippur as a somber day, a very serious day, almost a sad day in which we think about our sins and our imperfections. 00:39 Speaker A But in reality, the Mishna says Taanit that Yom Kippur, along with the 15th of Av, which is not our topic, was literally the happiest day of the year, the day of the second tablets coming down, the day of forgiveness. Even the English word atonement can be divided up, although I'm not sure you're permitted to make homiletical interpretations of English, but atonement is at onement—you are one with God. A glorious, joyous day, a joyous day. 00:46 Speaker A Uh, people have given a mazel. Let's imagine that Yom Kippur would only come every 50 years. People would talk about every 50 years there's this great day where God forgives us and God wipes away our sins if we repent. What a glorious thing it is. And your zayde would talk about the Yom Kippur of 50 years ago. 01:00 Speaker A But now we take it for granted. Hashem gives us this great gift every single year. And we don't always realize how joyous it is, how happy it is, what a glorious opportunity to become pure, to fix things up. What I do want to discuss is that in the time of the Temple, 01:17 Speaker A and we read about this in the Musaf, one of the most mysterious parts of the Yom Kippur service is the scapegoat. Two goats were designated, and the goats have to be identical in height, in appearance, in color, in age. And one goat is designated as the sacrifice for God whose blood is brought into the Holy of Holies. 01:33 Speaker A And the other goat, which is called the scapegoat, is sent out to the desert and pushed over a mountain cliff and dies in that particular way. It's not even a korban. And it's not even brought into the Beit HaMikdash. It's called the goat that is offered to the desert demons or call it the goat that is sent into the desert. 01:40 Speaker A Shalom. It even resembles idolatry. God forbid. And yet, of all of the rituals that are performed on Yom Kippur, the scapegoat is the most powerful source of atonement, more than the blood that is brought into the Holy of Holies. The exact meaning of the scapegoat is very elusive. It's deeply mystical, and there's no way that we can really hope to fully understand it. But I just want to share with you one insight, one partial insight that is based on the writings of R' Mishna Hersh. And he focuses on the idea that essentially we have two goats. One goat goes on the pathway to God, Holy of Holies. The other goat goes on the pathway of death and destruction. And 01:46 Speaker A this is indeed the human fork in the road that we all face. We can choose the path of life and union with Hashem. We can choose the path of death and destruction. 02:02 Speaker A But what is the significance that both goats are identically the same? To remind us that the bad goat is not born bad. 02:12 Speaker A It's not inherently bad. And the good goat is not inherently good. It's a matter of the choice. Choice in terms of the lottery. In other words, R' Hersh points out that the ritual of the scapegoat says that the evildoer should never say, 02:29 Speaker A "I was just born this way. I was born with a bad nature. What can I do about it?" That's not true. Both goats start off life the same way. It is the labeling, the positive and the negative labeling that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And this is something that's very relevant to us because very often, far too often, we self-label ourselves in a negative way. We think to ourselves, I'm not good enough to do this. I'm not righteous enough to do this. Who do I think I am to try to learn Torah every day or whatever it is? 02:45 Speaker A And sometimes this may be a message that we got from our childhood. Sometimes from parents, sometimes from teachers, sometimes from family, from friends or so-called friends or people we interacted with. But it becomes so deeply intertwined into our personalities 02:56 Speaker A that that negative voice, "You're no good, you're not good enough," keeps on reverberating and the video gets replayed in an infinite loop and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And the lesson of this is inherently every human being has the capacity to be righteous and good. It's the label that destroys you. Do not allow the self-label to destroy your growth in Hashem. 03:13 Speaker A There is a passage in the daily Arvit prayer. We actually say that as well. Excuse me. 03:27 Speaker A Remove the Satan from in front of us and from in back of us. So the question becomes, I understand the Satan that's in front of me. I want to go do a mitzvah. I want to go to shul. I want to learn. I want to daven. And the Satan is trying to block me from going forward. 03:44 Speaker A So I ask Hashem, remove that Yetzer Hara that's blocking me from going forward. But the question is, what does it mean the Satan that's in back of me if I've already passed him? I'm doing okay. So I'm going to give you two quick answers on that. The first is a very, very famous word from the Torah that says that just as there is a Satan that is blocking you from doing mitzvot, there may be a Satan that is pushing you to do mitzvot, 03:55 Speaker A such as the voice that says, "Why don't you learn till 3:00 in the morning? Why don't you fast on Monday and Thursday?" It looks like it's a great thing, but ultimately it'll destroy your health and destroy your concentration. So the Torah says 04:04 Speaker A we have to realize that just as there's a Yetzer that wants to stop us from doing mitzvah, there may be a Yetzer that is pushing us to do mitzvah knowing that at the end of everything we're going to fail and he's going to have us. That is a famous idea of the Yetzer, but I want to share with you another thought which in some ways is almost the opposite. I believe it's of the Satan in front of me is the same as 04:20 Speaker A the first Satan. I'm trying to do a mitzvah. The Satan blocks me. What is the Satan in back of me? So here R' Nachman says a beautiful thing. Let's say a person chose to do sin. A person chose 04:37 Speaker A the wrong things. But now he wants to go back. He wants to do teshuvah. He wants to return. 04:53 Speaker A There was a Satan in front of him that enticed him to sin. But now there's a Satan in back of him that's saying, "Who do you think you are that you can do teshuvah? Who do you think you are that God cares about you? Who do you think you are that you could change yourself for the better? 05:00 Speaker A You're pretentious. You're grandiose. It's not going to happen." And R' Nachman says, "The Satan that whispers in my ear, 'You're not worthy,'" is even worse than the Satan that made me sin in the first place. The Satan that made 05:19 Speaker A me sin in the first place, that is a momentary lack of control I did in a but the Satan in back of me that when I want to do teshuvah, literally I want to return, that Satan is blocking the door saying, 05:41 Speaker A "You're not worthy." That is a perpetual Yetzer Hara that prevents any spiritual growth at all. We have to remember the lesson of the two goats. Even the so-called bad goat is exactly the same as the good goat except for the labeling. We have to 05:52 Speaker A remember not to self-label ourselves. I just want to end with a story. I don't know what the source of the story was about a king who constructed a huge tower, a tower of 1,000 stories high. 06:06 Speaker A And the king said that anyone who can climb to the top of the tower via the staircase will merit to marry my daughter. Most people looked at a tower that was a thousand stories long and they basically 06:19 Speaker A said, "What's the purpose? I'm not going to be able to do it. Why should I even bother to try?" One person said, "I'll see what I can do." He goes five stories, 10 stories, 20 stories, 20 stories. He's already out 06:27 Speaker A of breath. He only has another 980 stories to go. People are laughing at him. People are mocking him. People are making fun of him. But he says, "I'll go as much as I can go." And he goes and he 06:44 Speaker A goes and he goes and he goes and finally, and everyone is laughing. Everyone thinks he's such an idiot. And at the 50th story, he collapses in utter exhaustion, 950 stories away from where he nee 07:00 Speaker A such as the voice that says why don't you learn till 3:00 in the morning why don't you fast on Monday and Thursday it looks like it's a great thing but ultimately it'll destroy your health and destroy your concentration so the says 07:13 Speaker A we have to realize that just as there's a Yates that wants to stop us from doing mitzvah, there may be a Yates that is pushing us to do mitzvah knowing that at the end of everything we're going to fail and he's 07:26 Speaker A going to have us. That is a famous of the but I want to share with you another thought which in some ways is almost the opposite. I believe it's of the Satan in front of me is the same as 07:40 Speaker A the first shot. I'm trying to do a mitzvah. The Sultan blocks me. What is the Sutton in back of me? So here Raf Nakman says a beautiful thing. Let's say a person chose to do sin. A person chose 07:55 Speaker A the wrong things. But now he wants to go back. He wants to do chuva. He wants to return. 08:03 Speaker A There was a satan in front of him that enticed him to sin. But now there's a satan in back of him that's saying, "Who do you think you are that you can do chuva? Who do you think you are that God 08:18 Speaker A cares about you? Who do you think you are that you could change yourself for the better? 08:24 Speaker A You're pretentious. You're grandiose. It's not going to happen." And the breast says, "The Satan that whispers in my ear, you're not worthy," is even worse than the Sultan that made me sin in the first place. The satan that made 08:43 Speaker A me sin in the first place that is a momentary lack of control I did in a but the satan in back of me that when I want to do chuva literally I want to return that satan is blocking the door saying 08:57 Speaker A you're not worthy that is a perpetual yateshara that prevents any spiritual growth at all. We have to remember the lesson of the two goats. Even the so-called bad goat is exactly the same as the good goat except for the labeling. We have to 09:16 Speaker A remember not to self-label ourselves. I just want to end with a story. I don't know what the source of the story was about a king who constructed a huge tower, a tower of 1,000 stories high. 09:33 Speaker A And the king said that anyone who can climb to the top of the tower via the staircase will merit to marry my my daughter. Most people looked at a tower that was a thousand stories long and they basically 09:48 Speaker A said, "What's the purpose? I'm not going to be able to do it. Why should I even bother to try?" One person said, "I'll see what I can do." He goes five stories, 10 stories, 20 stories, 20 stories. He's already out 10:04 Speaker A of breath. He only has another 980 stories to go. People are laughing at him. People are mocking him. People are making fun of him. But he says, "I'll go as much as I can go." And he goes and he 10:16 Speaker A goes and he goes and he goes and finally and everyone is laughing. Everyone thinks he's such an idiot. And at the 50th story, he collapses in utter exhaustion, 950 stories away from where he needs to go. But at the 50th story, the landing 10:37 Speaker A turns into an elevator that takes him all the way to the top. He reaches the top and he's to marry the king's daughter. 10:50 Speaker A This is a beautiful mush for what the aida of chuva is. In the aveda of chuva, we sometimes look at everything we have to fix and it seems to be an impossible task. It seems to be something that 11:05 Speaker A we're not able to do. So why bother? Now this person too had no ability to go to the thousand story. But he did as much as he could. And only when he did as much as he could did Hashem then take 11:18 Speaker A over and bring him to the top. But had he not gone to the fifth in the story, had he not gone to the point of exhaustion, God would never have taken him up to the top. That's our we have to do whatever 11:32 Speaker A we can. Even if we think it's so minimal and so meaningless and so small, but we do the best that we can. And then at some point takes over. The Gammorian suka says that the atahara of a person gets stronger 11:50 Speaker A and stronger and stronger every day. And without Hashem's help, we would never win. There is no way we can do it by ourselves. 12:02 Speaker A But Hashem says, "Do what you can. And then I will take over. But I will take over only when you do what you can. That is the partnership of chuva. We do our little effort and tashm then takes over. 12:18 Speaker A And this is what kazal say, open for me like the eye of a needle. A little opening. Open your heart to me and I will open you up like the width of the doors of the basa mikdash that were very 12:33 Speaker A very wide openings. And this is what Hashem told Mosher Raenu after the when Hashem wanted to destroy the Jewish people and Moshe prayed and Hashem said, we say this in I forgive you according to your words and in the Tai is 12:58 Speaker A I forgive you as much as you want to be forgiven. If you truly want, you will find. 13:08 Speaker A May I b give us all the gift of forgiveness, the gift of purification, the gift of relationship, the gift of atonement. 13:20 Speaker A And may our yum kipper be joyous, inspirational, and connecting to the Jewish people and to our kadeshb. 13:30 Speaker A A rabbi once came to revelash Zatal and he posed a dilemma. A young lady was getting married and this rabbi was the misater kaducian and he had a problem because the young lady was a guorist. She was a convert 13:50 Speaker A and she was concerned that when they read the kuba under the kuba they're going to read the kuba is written and it says in the kuba that she is converted to Judaism she was felt that when they read the kuba so she'll 14:05 Speaker A be embarrassed that everybody should find out that she's a convert so he asked yashv if they could write the kuba as a regular kuba to save the young lady embarrassment now revelash Sasha was always known for his very brief and to 14:20 Speaker A the point answers to questions and totally out of character of the he said let me tell you a story. He said I want to tell you a story. In Europe there was once a small town and the small town 14:33 Speaker A they had to appoint a new rabbi a new rv. The uh local poritz non-Jewish landowner was the one who was going to determine who's going to be the new rv of the town. And the way he decided to 14:49 Speaker A determine the new Rev was he was going to have a contest. There were two candidates and what he decided to do is he would tell each one he would open a sitter randomly and each one would have to read 15:02 Speaker A and whichever one read more fluently he would be obviously that's a demonstration of his various skills and the parts decided would decide he'd become the rough. Okay. So the first guy he opens up the sitter randomly and sure 15:18 Speaker A enough it's opened up to Ashray. Oh the guy looks down Ashray who doesn't know Ashray Ash say three times a day and he just goes breezing through ash parts is very impressed. Second guy steps up and he opens up the sitter and 15:34 Speaker A it comes out to the yotros an shuis which if it is said by anyone it's said once a year. So the guy breaks his teeth on the yotzro and a terrible performance and the reports immediately says okay the first guy becomes the rub of the 15:49 Speaker A town told the guy the story he said I want to tell you something that second guy doesn't deserve to be the rv he's a fool why is he a fool he's a fool because who told him to read the yots the poritz 16:03 Speaker A doesn't understand Hebrew he could have just pretended that it was said look down and reada which he knows by heart who told him they have to read who said he has to read the yo he's a fool that's why he doesn't deserve to be the 16:16 Speaker A ro said to him listen you can't write a kuba differently than what it's meant to be the way it's meant to be written but when you're reading it under the who said you have to read those words as you 16:29 Speaker A get to those words slirt over the words read it fast nobody will hear you that was revelasha's answer what's the lesson the lesson is that sometimes in life adjustment ments have to be made. I have to make certain adjustments. The time of 16:45 Speaker A year that we think about and we focus on perhaps where we have to make our own adjustments is certainly round elashana and certainly yam kipper when we're busy clapping our our heart say I'm not going to do this I will do this thinking to 17:04 Speaker A oursel what we could improve I would suggest you know everybody knows uh of David Feinstein's saw was Rabbisha Feinstein's son biggest post in America at the time and there was a certain community that was going through difficulty going through some sort of 17:20 Speaker A tragedies happened in the community so they approached David Feinstein said what should we work on sir Davidid said you know the the community wants to work on something for improvement savvy said what are we felt in a veras well we're 17:33 Speaker A we don't have we're all so good we haven't done any of everybody should think about where they have flaws and They should figure out a way to to fix up their flaws. That's what David Fing told them. So a lot of this is 17:46 Speaker A individualistic. A lot each person lea show a heart knows its internal bitterness. Each person knows where they have flaws, what what needs to be improved, whatever the area is. And if a person doesn't know, so they can certainly consult with a RV or a mentor. 18:04 Speaker A And probably best better yet is to speak to their spouse because a spouse will certainly be more than happy to point out uh where improvement is needed if improvement is needed. I would only suggest one area uh which is challenging 18:19 Speaker A and is something to think about. If if a person does that doesn't apply to them then fine but just something to think about. In Parsus Kisovo, we read that Hashem says to the Jewish people because you didn't serve with 18:35 Speaker A joy. The punishment for not serving Hashem with joy. We're taken to task for not serving. And what's the punishment? 18:43 Speaker A The very next puzzle says that we're going to v we're going to end up servitude to our enemies. 18:52 Speaker A That seems like a harsh punishment. I mean, okay, we didn't serve with joy, but we served. I mean if we did it why should we be punished for all of the enemies and serve the enemies. So one of 19:01 Speaker A the commentaries explains if you do something without joy if you do something grumbling under duress it's as if it's forced labor. That's how we feel. If we're doing something which we'd rather not do and we do it and we 19:17 Speaker A do it with a frown that's like forced labor. And therefore the way Hashem pays back person gets what he deserves that mida mida will cause that we will then end up in a situation where it's literal forced labor where the Jewish 19:37 Speaker A people fall to the enemies and then have to serve the enemies in the most unpleasant way possible. So what is it that the Torah wants from us? Torah says because you didn't serve Hashem with joy. Now, obviously, it doesn't mean 19:50 Speaker A that we're always just going to be in a wonderful mood. You know, life, there are hassles in life and there's traffic and trying to get kids into schools and parasa and there are always hassles. 20:03 Speaker A That's not that a person is not in a great mood. That's not what the Torah is addressing here. The Torah is addressing the attitude towards the mitzvah in general. Does a person see 613 mitzvah or a person sees 613 problems? The Torah 20:20 Speaker A is addressing our attitude. If a if somebody you love needs something done, a husband who rolls up his sleeves to attack the crusty chunk pot in other dishes on a mo shabas, he's happy to do it for his wife. It doesn't mean it's 20:39 Speaker A easy and it doesn't mean he's necessarily feeling well, but he's happy to do the job because he wants to please the person who needs the job done. We're happy to have the mitzvah. We're happy to have the opportunity to ser 20:57 Speaker A many people who when you offer them, would you like to eat? Yes. Would you like a roll or would you like a toast or would you like a pa? No. No, I don't want to wash between me and you. It's not the washing 21:10 Speaker A that's the problem. Washing doesn't take that long. Takes a couple of seconds. It's the benching that's the issue. 21:16 Speaker A Person wants to avoid I don't want to have to bench. Got to get up and you got to get a bencher and you wear a hat and a jacket and my that's a lot of work. 21:25 Speaker A And then you have to it's going to take up about three minutes of our time also. 21:30 Speaker A Now think what benching is. Benching is the only that's a it's a Torah command. 21:40 Speaker A A person has the opportunity to take on the yoke of benching and then to do it happily. And what do we do? We run away from it. That's what it means that we're not serving auimo. 21:56 Speaker A Rebbitz and Stainman towards the end of her life she was very very ill and Rebansson had to be on a feeding tube and somebody asked her no she was very very sick and somebody asked her how are you handling all this 22:14 Speaker A and she said look you know it's uh obviously it's it's uncomfortable but it's the will of Hashem therefore it's obviously for the good but the truth is I do miss being able to bench. That was her attitude. She couldn't eat and she 22:32 Speaker A didn't say she misses eating. She said she misses benching. When Yam Kipper comes around and a person is looking, there are a lot of individual areas that need improvement. Honoring parents, uh honesty and money, uh uh lush and har 22:53 Speaker A sorts of all sorts of areas. But as a general rule, something that affects all of our voters, Hashem is the idea, the attitude of serving Hashem. 23:06 Speaker A A person who serves Hashem experiences when they serve. That's how it works. It's a cycle. And therefore when we clap for all the various underlying it is often the attitude I don't really want to be bothered with this. That's what does not want for the 23:29 Speaker A Jewish people. He wants us to realize that the mitzvah are a privilege. We've been honored to be given the mitzvah. 23:39 Speaker A Shem wanted to give us multiple merits. Torah mitzvah. Therefore, he gave us many Torah, a lot of big Torah and many mitzvah. 23:51 Speaker A Should help that our attitude should be to serve Hashem with joy and we should have a year full of joy. And the last mission in Yuma concludes with the famous statement of Raba. 24:21 Speaker A said, "How fortunate are you, Israel, before whom do you become purified? And who purifies you? Your father in heaven." As it says, "And I will throw purifying water on you and you will become pure." And it says, "The hope 24:34 Speaker A mikvah of Israel is Hashem." Just as a mikvah purifies those who are impure, so too purifies. The first question that jumps out at us as you read the Mishna is why does seem to repeat himself in front of whom do you become pure 24:52 Speaker A and who purifies you? Furthermore, why does he bring two different one from one from to prove his point? Many explanations are given but today I would like to discuss the approach of aviv lipher the author of the junctive 25:09 Speaker A junctive explains the repetition as follows. Ideally a person of his own valition should choose to become more and to actively engage in the chuva process. This is the way of for whom do you make yourself tar? But sometimes a person has fallen so low 25:27 Speaker A that he doesn't even feel the need to change has become normal for him. In this case, still finds a way for by waking him up and supporting him so he should not be lost forever. As the pro says, 25:46 Speaker A Hashem devises a way so that the one who is spiritually lost should not be banished from him forever. This is the second way. 25:55 Speaker A who is the one that is making Utah. These two different ways of achieving tahara are expressed in the two sources quoted the kascal and parac tells us that a desecration of hashem's name the nations say if these are hashem's people how could 26:17 Speaker A they have been sent out of his land why would they suffer so much therefore the says in the name of hashem not for your sake but lemani for my sake I will take you from the nations and bring you back to the land and then I 26:31 Speaker A will throw purifying water on you and you will become pure. There's no mention of any initiative on our part. Rather, Hashem will begin the process and purify us. In contrast, the term is found in as part of If our sins have testified against us, 27:02 Speaker A Hashem, do for your name's sake, for our visors have increased. We have sinned against you. Hope of Israel Mikah is our savior at the times of of distress. 27:12 Speaker A Please save us. Here, Yumo is taking the initiative. He's admitting our guilt as the first step step of chuva. In this context, Hashem is like a mikvah, a pool of purifying water that we come to to be purified. The truth is that the ising to 27:29 Speaker A that we mentioned many times in your for on this day he shall affect atonement for you to purify you before Hashem you shall become purified from your sins. On your kipper we have both types of tahara. First For on this day he shall affect 27:52 Speaker A atonement for you to purify you. As Kazal say in this even with our corbonas the day itself atones. Hashem has designated the day of kipper as a time of kapara where he as it were is taking the initiative and sprinkling the Jewish 28:06 Speaker A people with purifying water. But it's not just that we have a special mitz to do chuva kipper. As writes invu is a commandment to engage in chuva oner. This is the deeper meaning of the key because because this is the day that 28:30 Speaker A Hashem has chosen to purify us because the essence of the day at Hashem is sprinkling us with therefore we need to complete the purification with our own cha by coming to immerse ourselves in the mikashem. 28:46 Speaker A When Hashem comes to purify us, we need to respond with our own purification to join with him. This is the explanation of the Mishna. But I think there's another difference between the tupil and the Mishna that connects to this 28:59 Speaker A approach. Describing the end of days when Hashem will say that the gull cannot continue and he'll bring the Jewish people back to his land where they'll be fully purified. This is what the Gmoran Sanhedrin describes based on the Pakaya. 29:17 Speaker A If they are not worthy, then at the appointed time, Hashem will redeem them on his own. But Yeshing in a time of distress at the outset of the gulus, very far from the appointed time of redemption, and exclaims Isra, 29:33 Speaker A Hashem, you're always our hope, the one who will save us in times of distress by always accepting our sincere chuva. As the Gomorrah continues, if we merit, then the redemption will come quickly. It is reported in the name 29:47 Speaker A of the although the garra seems to present two distinct options. If they are not worthy, then at the appointed time and if they are worthy, then I will hasten it. The plain meaning of the still stands. 30:06 Speaker A In its time, I will hasten it. When the end of days are near and Hashem is taking the initiative to bring the Jewish people back to their land and he's waking them up according to his own timetable, then we have a special 30:19 Speaker A opportunity and obligation to be za and to hasten their redemption whose time is near. It seems clear that we are living in such times. It is the charge of our generation to be the generation of chuva that completes the gula. This is our 30:34 Speaker A kipper as well to be matara ourselves together with hashem who is being matara us we have to be in the mikvah to join with hashem's but the in a mikvah has two conditions first one has to be completely immersed 30:50 Speaker A without leaving even a single hair outside secondly there can't be anything separating between the person and the water so too for chuva we need to be totally immersed in the knowledge of hashem and our relation ationship with him without any barriers. This may be to 31:08 Speaker A do a sincere chuva and to complete the purification and to complete the hashem. Amen. Hi, this is Peris Morikler, a proud alumnest of Orsame. Now, what you just watched is one of the many programs that Orsome provides, leaving its impact 31:32 Speaker A on hundreds of thousands with so many more waiting [music] to be reached. Orsame central campus in Jerusalem has over 300 students presently learning there. And now you can be a vital part of spreading that bounty of knowledge worldwide by logging on to donate.r.edu. 31:57 Speaker A We can step up to the plate at this pivotal moment of wars mass growth and bring the next generation of Jews home. Topics: Yom Kippur atonement scapegoat ritual spiritual growth self-labeling Yetzer Hara teshuvah Jewish teachings Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz Ohr Somayach --- This is the markdown twin of https://sozai.app/transcript/yom-kippur-rabbi-discussion/ — the same content, without the markup. 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