Yom Kippur: A Short and Sweet Overview (of a Short and VERY Sweet Day)!

Yom Kippur is an unbelievable gift to the Jewish people, a day not to grumble about how hungry we may be (or think about how our stomachs are grumbling from the fast!)...but to rejoice at the opportunity to RETURN to our deepest selves and to REGAIN our inner purity and freedom. Not to mention the blessing of restoring love and harmony between ourselves and our fellow human beings...and between ourselves and Hashem, who is "Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King). What are the actual steps we need to take to RETURN? Tune in to this short and sweet overview of Yom Kippur as I, Rabbi E, SING to you those simple steps of teshuva ("return") in a melody from my childhood. Which is kind of appropriate, as we are approaching G-d, in a sense, like wayward children who now want to return and be reconciled with their loving parent. (Who has been waiting for us all along.) If we SINCERELY express that we are sorry, and that we truly want to do better in the year to come, then Hashem will forgive us AND purify us.