Sept. 28, 2025

NO EXCUSES, REBUILD YOUR LIFE - YOM KIPPUR PREP

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Season 8

Who would dare preach regression in an era obsessed with forward momentum? As artificial intelligence and technology race ahead faster than we can comprehend, the Almighty challenges us to do something radical – look backward. The Asaras Yame Teshuva (Ten Days of Repentance) invites us into a countercultural practice of spiritual retrospection that ultimately propels us forward.

Rosh Hashanah's shofar blast serves as our spiritual alarm clock, cutting through life's noise to awaken us to what truly matters. This divine wake-up call demands we place everything under the magnifying glass – our thoughts, relationships, businesses, and communal affairs. Have we channeled our unique capabilities to further God's will? Have we fulfilled our potential as Jews and as human beings? These questions may feel uncomfortable, but their discomfort signals their importance.

The most profound message of this season lies in its radical inclusivity. Even those who have "grown old in sin," "spent decades in defiance," or "danced around a golden calf of deified sensualism" are welcomed back into divine embrace. Just as God declared "Salachti" (I have forgiven) after the catastrophic sin of the Golden Calf, Yom Kippur offers us the opportunity for complete renewal. The person who emerges from sincere teshuvah isn't just forgiven but transformed – "you 1.0" gives way to a refreshed version, unburdened by past failings and energized by new possibilities.

This week, replace grudges with forgiveness and redirect your attributes toward divine service. With sincere effort and a genuine "righting of the ship," you can experience the lightness of being welcomed home by a loving Creator who declares, "You are totally pure. I have forgiven." Listen to more episodes to deepen your spiritual journey during this sacred season.

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00:00 - Who Dares Preach Regression?

00:22 - The Challenge of Rosh Hashanah

00:50 - Scrutinizing Our Lives

01:25 - God Welcomes Us Back

02:14 - Starting Fresh After Yom Kippur

03:30 - The Path to Divine Forgiveness

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Who would dare preach regression?

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Looking back, returning in a day when everything is about moving forward.

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Artificial intelligence technology, things move forward faster than we can keep up with.

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But it is the Almighty who dares to challenge you to look back, to scrutinize your past during the Asaras Yame Teshuva.

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Rash Hashanah was to be a Yom Turua, a day that was a spiritual arousal.

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It should wake you up and make you think about things that are actually meaningful and make you ponder your life's decisions and your life's directions.

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And who could dare respond to Hashem's challenge to return and to repent with a quote, I never go wrong.

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It can't be that I'm actually guilty.

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Who could dare respond to Hashem in that manner?

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We are obligated to scrutinize our mental, our physical, our thoughts, our feelings, our words, our actions, our enjoyments, our endeavors, our house, our marriages, our businesses, our communal and civil affairs, all of it must come under the magnifying glass by our own sense of am I headed in the right direction?

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And does God approve?

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Have I sufficiently channeled the capabilities and the attributes, the things that I'm good at?

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Have I sufficiently used them to further the will of Hashem on this planet?

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And even though a person feels during the Asteris you made Teshuva, like looking back is too painful.

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Like Teshuva is unattainable, that Saliha Ukapara is impossible because you've may have grown old in sin.

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You may have spent decades in defiance.

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You may have danced around a golden calf of deified sensualism.

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Your luchos, your Torah may be broken on the floor, smashed to smithereen's.

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But just like the Boray Olam welcomed Klaliusral back right after the Eegelazov episode, after that debacle and the smashing of the lujos, everything that came out of it.

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The Bo Re Olam, the omnipresent, declared, Solachti, I have forgiven.

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Yom Kippra.

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God is ready to forgive us.

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He challenges us to repent and to scrutinize ourselves and then to forge a new path.

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Because God is waiting with open arms to welcome us back.

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The Boray Olam, a god is Bar who wants us to meet our life's challenges with a new refreshed mindset.

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The Yom Kippur is supposed to become the day number one of the future of your life.

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You can dive in for anything that you want, and you can beseech the heavens and ask God for the most outrageous requests because what happened before?

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That was you, 1.0.

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That was me and my last Gilgull.

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This is the new me, new fresh me after Yom Kippur.

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That's what we're supposed to be doing and channeling during the Asterasia Maitchuva during this week of repentance.

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Scrutinize yourself.

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How you are with your community.

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Your base hashkita, your base ha tsvila, your base ha tevila, all of it.

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As a Jew, are you meeting your requirements?

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Teshuvah is what we need.

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And after we become shavim, we become returners?

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Then Yom Kippur works for us.

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We need to replace grudges with forgiveness.

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Lewdness, replace it with self-control, and utilize all of our attributes, all of our powers.

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Further the will of Hashem.

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Resolve.

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Find that inner will to start new, to start fresh.

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That's what Yom Kippur is about.

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You should have a lightness in your step.

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And God willing, with a little bit of effort and a writing of the ship, God says, Welcome home, my dear son.

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You are totally pure Salahti.

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And I'm so happy about our new and loving, fresh, ever fresh, beautifully new life that we are about to start together.

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Just put in a little bit of work and maximize this to Shiva week.

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Until Hashem will declare for us, Ision Kippur, Salahti, I have totally forgiven you.