| Today is: Wednesday, Tishrei 7, 5772 · October 5, 2011
• Ten Days of Repentance
The 10-day period beginning on Rosh Hashahnah and ending on Yom Kippur is known as the "Ten Days of Repentance"; this is the period, say the sages, of which the prophet speaks when he proclaims (Isaiah 55:6) "Seek G-d when He is to be found; call on Him when He is near." Psalm 130, Avinu Malkeinu and other special inserts and additions are included in our daily prayers during these days. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of reciting three additional chapters of Psalms each day, from the 1st of Elul until Yom Kippur (on Yom Kippur the remaining 36 chapters are recited, thereby completing the entire book of Psalms). Click below for today's three Psalms. Chapter 106 Chapter 107 Chapter 108 Links: About the Ten Days of teshuvah; Voicemail; more on teshuvah
When a person is uprooted from his habitual environment... there come to light certain traits of his inner character as they are in their purity, undistorted by the expectations of society. Often, these traits reveal the hidden good in this person, of which perhaps even he himself had been unaware, because they were hidden under the layers of "manners" and social conventions. Fortunate is the person who does not allow these traits to disappear when he subsequently settles down and finds tranquility.
- From a 1944 letter by the Lubvitcher Rebbe, recalling his days as a refugee in Vichy France
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