Rabbi Akiva Rutenberg - Returning to Our Source

[Music] we know one of the themes of rosh hashanah in yom kippur maybe the integral main theme is the theme of tsuba what does it mean to suva teshuva is often translated as repentance but this is actually a mistake because the word means to return and the concept of teshuva is that we are returning what are we returning to so we know that if someone used to live in california and then they come back to california we say they returned to california so if we are returning to hashem it means that that's where we started off it means that's our essences our essence is connected to hashem and it's so important as we go into this time of year of rosh hashanah and kippur to understand that that's where we belong we belong with hashem that's where we came from that's where we are and we say in the te fila every day we say eloquent hashem god the soul that you gave to me is pure this facebook says we say is pure in present tense we don't say it was pure and then i messed it up your nishama arnashama every single person in the shama is pure and always will be pure because the neshama is directly connected to hashem and all we have to do is tash is to return to that connection and we will be able to feel the connection to hashem and be able to do the right thing this coming year bizarre hashem will have a very meaningful rosh hashanah yom kippur and for all of us it will be a time of teshuva of returning to our true essence [Music] you