{"id":47474,"date":"2019-01-14T00:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T22:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47474"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:09:53","slug":"the-power-of-remorse-or-how-to-change-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-power-of-remorse-or-how-to-change-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Remorse, Or: How To Change The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[354,571,400,699,760],"acf":{"old_id":"47474","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"132","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The gift of forgiveness for inadvertent sins","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does teshuva work? We confess our wrongs, express remorse, and resolve not to repeat, but how can we undo the past? Surely, what\u2019s done is done. The asymmetry of time means that we can affect the future but not the past. However, it is not quite so. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The release of vows that takes place through Kol Nidrei constitutes a legal precedent \u2013 the only one \u2013 for what we seek, through teshuva, to achieve for our sins. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ground on which we seek annulment of vows is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0125arata<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cremorse.\u201d The fact that we now regret having taken the vow is the reason the sages were able to say that full intent \u2013 an essential element of a valid vow \u2013 was lacking from the outset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this is precisely what we do when we confess our sins and express our remorse for them.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We thereby signal retroactively that full intent was lacking from our sins. Had we known then what we know now, we would not have acted as we did. Therefore we did not really mean to do what we did. This is what Resh Lakish meant when he said that teshuva has the power retroactively to turn deliberate sins into inadvertent ones (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoma<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 86b), and inadvertent sins can be forgiven. In fact this is why, immediately after <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kol Nidrei<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we recite the biblical verse that says: \u201cAll the congregation of Israel will be forgiven\u2026for they sinned without intent [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bishgaga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]\u201d (Num. 15:26). So both the annulment of vows and teshuva share the power of remorse to change or mitigate the past and liberate us from its bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from the Introduction to the Koren Yom Kippur Mahzor<\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73121,"id":73121,"title":"ez3-repentance","filename":"ez3-repentance.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/great-is-repentance\/ez3-repentance\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez3-repentance","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73120,"date":"2020-04-08 08:19:25","modified":"2023-09-07 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