Aseres Yemei Teshuva: Rosh Hashanah as Moment of Conception

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why are these days called Aseres Yemei Teshuva when Rosh Hashanah has no vidui and no formal teshuva? Rosh Hashanah is the moment of conception, a return to the essence of what a person is here for, so the day speaks only of Hashem as King. Then come the Rambam's steps of teshuva, how teshuva mei'ahava turns a fall into strength, and the work of mechila between people, followed by questions from the room.

Key points

• Rosh Hashanah is the moment of conception, when the essence of the year is laid down.
• Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofaros each take a person back to the point of origin.
• Rosh Hashanah judges where a person's tree is planted, and Yom Kippur works on the twigs.
• In the seventh perek the Rambam adds a teshuva before death, for middos and character.
• Teshuva mei'ahava leaves a person stronger, like a bone that heals thicker at the break.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Why no teshuva on Rosh Hashanah
2. 2:22Elisha and the Shunamis
3. 3:13Every process unfolds from its essence
4. 7:29Aseres HaDibros as categories
5. 12:16Rosh Hashanah lays down the essence
6. 13:09Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofaros
7. 19:26The Rambam's evenly balanced person
8. 21:30The Rambam on the mitzvah of teshuva
9. 24:53Teshuva without vidui
10. 28:57Regret, shame and teshuva mei'ahava
11. 36:37Interpersonal aveiros and mechila
12. 46:11Questions from the room

Topics

• Rosh Hashanah
• Aseres Yemei Teshuva
• Teshuva
• Mechila