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The Jewish New Year
The Month of Elul Rosh Hashana Yom Kippur Sukkot Simchat Torah
Tishrei in Ten
1. What Are The High Holidays?
2. Elul
3. Rosh Hashanah
4. The Ten Days
5. Yom Kippur
6. The Sukkah
7. The Four Kinds
8. Shemini Atzeret
9. Simchat Torah
10. Epilogue
Holiday Over-Dosage


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4. The Ten Days

Return

Now that you know who you are, it's time to come in for landing. That's why the days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur are known as the Ten Days of Teshuvah.

Teshuvah is too often mistranslated as "repentance." Repentance implies that you were bad and now have to become good. Teshuvah means simply to return. Meaning that you were always essentially good, just that certain behaviors may have been somewhat off base—and now all you have to do is rediscover your true place and your true self and return to there.

You were always essentially good, just certain behaviors may have been somewhat off baseThis is the most spiritual season of the year, a time when our souls are closer to heaven than to earth, whether we notice it or not. On any day of the year, the soul can reach high. On these days, it can touch its essence. Spend these days in meditation, prayer and study of Torah.

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Rabbi Tzvi Freeman heads Chabad.org's Ask The Rabbi team, and is a senior member of the Chabad.org editorial team. He is the author of a number of highly original renditions of Kabbalah and Chassidic teaching, including the universally acclaimed "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth." To order Tzvi's books click here.

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