28 September 2025 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

The Ten Days of Repentance

„From the depths comes repentance, from that great depth in which the individual personal soul is no separate entity in itself, but a continuation of the general universal greatness.”From Olat Re'iyah, Ten Days of Repentance

Repentance begins from the most personal place. A moment in which a person looks inward and wants to return to himself. But Rav Kook reveals to us that it does not stop there. Within every private pain, within a feeling of distance or guilt, there is hidden a deep point of connection that links us to all of life. We are part of one great, organized, immense current. When a person repents, he joins the movement of all of reality, which seeks to rise and become better. It is precisely out of the personal struggle that a gate opens to feel that we belong to something infinite, and that every small repair in our soul also changes the world around us.

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