A Different Type of Viduy
Something to keep in mind for Yom Kippur
Here is a beautiful extract of a speech about approaching Yom Kippur by Rav Melamed, author of Peninei Halacha. He says that we shouldn't only confess and articulate the things that we regret, but also the things that we are proud of. And he says that we, the national-religious community, have a lot to be proud of. We raised our children to love the land, to protect the nation, to combine Torah with work, to care about others - and they are doing it.
Wishing you all a gmar chatima tova.
Gmar Chasima Tova to you and yours!!!
Leaving the matter of interactions with your personal troll to yourself, I have always been puzzled by B'ruriah's quote of that posuq , and of all those who continue to quote her, since in the posuq as we have it now, chato-im is pointed with a dagesh chozoq. Thus it means sinners. If you're looking for sins, that word appears with a chataf patach (and thus no dagesh). So, perhaps B'ruriah (and R. Meier!?, who didn't complain about it) didn't know tanach that well, or perhaps the masoretic text we use now did not equilibrate till a few hundred to a thousand years later, or...what?