Viduy is utterly private – you are speaking only to God, who knows all your thoughts and feelings anyway, and who loves you more than you can possibly imagine.

In that private and emotionally safe space you need to go deeply enough into an awareness of yourself, not only the potential you have, but how you have damaged your potential.

Of course real teshuva must show up in action, but on Yom Kippur our action is that of sincere........

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