Bechukotai - Your Weekly Mission - By Rabbi Laibl Wolf

Bechukotai (Shabbat - Sat 1st June /24th Iyar)
Say It As It Is - and Move On
Your Weekly Mission - By Rabbi Laibl Wolf
Notes:
• In this week’s parsha, Bechukotai, there is reference to a profound expression of guilt that became known as ‘confession’ in the Christian doctrine. The word is Vidui, which means to to acknowledge verbally one’s sins and shortcomings. It is part of daily prayers and highlighted on Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur.
• Interestingly, the root source of this unusual word is Yad - hand. And it expresses the hand’s capacity to throw things away. In our context it means to throw away, to dispose of a sense of guilt through the admission and verbal acknowledgment of the sin.
• This is a profound Jewish insight: guilt weighs heavily and gnaws at the body and soul. It erodes emotional stability and is destructive of our physical body. It eats us up from the inside.
• Only by admitting it, not just inwardly, but in a semi public manner of emphatically verbalizing it, getting it out of the body, in a sense ‘throwing it away with the spiritual hand’, disposing of it, vidui, can the soul and body recover a sense of repair and equanimity.
• Never hide from your sins and shortcomings. Face them, admit them - verbally, and move on by getting it right the next time.

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