It is not enough to make personal resolutions about being better people. We must make the collective decision together.
Thousands of Jewish pilgrims attend the Selichot prayers at the Western Wall, a Judaism holy site in the Old City, in Jerusalem on Sept. 6, 2021, ahead of Rosh Hashana.
All around the world, in preparation for the High Holy Days, Jews are doing the inner spiritual work right now ofaccounting of the soul. This typically entails examining ourselves for all our moral failures and ethical shortcomings and planning how we might do better in the new Jewish year to come. This kind of practice isn’t unique to the Jewish community. We all in one way or another look to improve ourselves and our actions, and sometimes we even succeed at it. As difficult as self-improvement is, even greater is the task of collectiveOn Yom Kippur, which this year begins on the evening of Sept. 24, the congregation all stands together and recites a confession, “We have trespassed. We have betrayed. We have stolen; we have slandered.
Jewish or not, we all find ourselves asking the question: How do we make restitution for our complicity in injustices that were beyond our control? We all participate in a globally interconnected marketplace that relies on labor abuses. We’re all, to one extent or another, complicit in historical injustices that we’ve indirectly benefited from. Even if an injustice was not our idea or initiated by our direct action, we are obligated to do what we can to fix it.
If we’re being honest, this can be overwhelming to take in. Making the changes we wish to see in the world is a task that goes far beyond what any individual can do. And so, just as we are responsible collectively, we must do teshuva collectively. During Elul — the Hebrew month dedicated to reflection and change, which lasts until the beginning of Rosh Hashana, this year the evening of Sept.
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