The one word that can change your life - Preparing for the New Year (1 of 10)
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Uploaded by TheChiefRabbi on Sep 20, 2011
That's the sound of selichot. Of saying sorry. The special prayers we say at this time of the year as we come close to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish new year and the day of atonement. And there's something so powerful about the ability to say sorry.
Out there in secular society we live in a non penitential culture. When was the last time you heard a politician say, I'm sorry. Or a rabbi, say, I got it wrong. Or a pundit say, I made a mistake.
Yet we're always getting things wrong. That's what it is to be human. So to be able to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, forgive me, is important. It's a moment of honesty in a lifetime of keeping up appearances; of trying to look infallible. And I can say sorry to God because I know he forgives me. I know that because that's the kind of God he is. That's why he gave us Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So try saying sorry to God. It might just help you, as it's helped me, say sorry to the people I've hurt. Saying sorry is the superglue of interpersonal life. It mends relationships that would otherwise be broken beyond repair. You won't be sorry that you said, I'm sorry. Shanah tovah.
"Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a kind of clarion call, a summons to the Ten Days of Penitence which culminate in the Day of Atonement... Yom Kippur is the supreme moment of Jewish time, a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgement. At no other time are we so sharply conscious of standing before God, of being known."
To help prepare for the New Year, the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has recorded a series of ten thought-provoking videos, each reflecting on a particular idea associated with this time in the Jewish calendar or on an individual prayer said on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.
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Thank u.. Nice Good and Sweet New Year le kol haK'lalli
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