Your prayers and your teshuva are precious to our Father in heaven! Yes, YOURS!! Do not think that you are “too far gone” to be able to turn your life around, or that your teshuva would not be accepted. Read the Kalever Rebbe’s inspirational encouragement...
We are entering the Yamim Nora’im, The Days of Awe. We are now like full-grown wheat that is ready for harvest. Our job is to remove the chaff within ourselves and, through a teshuva process, become like fine flour.
Tired of facing another Yom Kippur of asking forgiveness for the same offenses that you’ve mentioned year after year? Read Rabbi Arush’s advice about how to make this Yom Kippur different!
We are approaching the Day of Judgment when we will promise (again) to improve. Let's listen to Hashem's advice on how to succeed in really changing!
The hidden meaning of the famous “Teshuva, tefilla (prayer) and tzedakah (charity) overturn the harsh decree” will astound you!
After the Ten Days of Repentance, and before we go off on our way starting the new year, Hashem gives us a gigantic “injection” of “do good.” That injection is called – the holiday of Sukkot.
The sukkah is a segula to merit the Torah. This is why after Sukkot, all the people of Israel merit Simchat Torah - to rejoice, sing, and dance with the Torah.
Here's great news for Yom Kippur: even if you committed the worst imaginable transgression, you can be considered a tzaddik just by desiring to be a righteous individual...
Whenever we make a decision, we have to clarify and consider our thoughts and options, instead of acting on instinct alone...
We were in a borrowed apartment for the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah was a 3-day weekend; we turned the fridge to Shabbat mode, but instead, it went into thaw mode...
There are people who do teshuva and confess, but get to very great levels of - depression. This isn’t the point. Real teshuva is teshuva that makes you happy inside...
What mitzvah should we take upon ourselves to improve as a New Year's resolution? Don't say, "There's so much to do, we don't know where to start..."