"Aleichem L'Taheir" - Rabbi Gershon Turetsky

if you will the taiwan's going to provide you with tahara with a purity from all of your involve your sins you're going to be purified in front of the borough now we know from looking at this postdoc that there are two elements of the chuba process that are identified one is kaphara forgiveness the other one is tahara is a certain element of purity that we should be gaining over the course of the yom kippur holiday and what are these two different elements many people speak about this kaphara is forgiveness you are forgiven for what you've done but we know that within relationships sometimes you can be forgiven for something but still an element of the sin element of the betrayal still exists it's still there a little bit you can feel it a little bit so on yom kippur we're looking for two things we're looking for both kapara we're looking for forgiveness but also tahara also we're looking for a way to expunge to get rid of any element any remnant of the sin from our shambles and from our psyches now the kosuke rebbe has a bit of a different way of reading this passage of understanding this process which sheds light and how we can attain these two different elements of chuva and he says that we should read the passage as kiba yo this day provides kapara and we know that gemma the gemara seems to tell us that there is an approach which seems to say that you know keeper by itself provides us with kaphara even if we don't do chuva so kiba yo maze this day provides kapara and then the pasta continues but it's on you it's your job to seek taharah when the cut scraping goes on to explain is that the idea of kappa forgiveness of course birth provides us that's what your kipp is all about it's giving forgiveness but the taharah [Music] upon us we are the ones who are charged with gaining the element of tahara and i think one can go so far as to say that while yom kip provides us with the kapara the tahara is something that even exists after yom kippur it's a matsuyum kippur in the day after and the day after and the day after because we do leave yom kip with a certain sense of kapharo we've been forgiven but tahara can only be gained by making sure that whatever we've achieved through yom kippur is something that sticks with us it's the next day and the next day and the next day dom kippur for us should be viewed as the beginning of or the continuity of a journey that we've set out on when we receive that forgiveness for the border shallow and the tahara process something that goes well beyond yom kippur as we try to not only fix our relationship with their borders on but to improve it day after day after day and i'm sure if we take this message to mind we'll make ourselves better people in the world a better place and i'll bring the kingdom here