Changing the Past

YOM KIPPUR CHANGING THE PAST ‘Pretend it never happened.’ Many times that’s our first instinct when we are faced with conclusive proof of our own misdeed. We wish we could sweep those ugly moments under the rug, or perhaps turn back time; but we can’t. So what are we to make of a transgression we’ve committed? We’re not just talking about how to learn from the mistake, or how to nor repeat it. We are asking, if it’s possible to rectify those moments in the past. And if yes, how? Transgressions are not accidents that need to be stuffed in a drawer, but rather a call from heaven for a new beginning. A transgression is an opportunity sent from above to step on painful spots and thereby energize the strongest thirst and longing for creating fundamental change.