Sep 30, 2025
Rav Soloveitchik on Teshuva (12): How To Free Ourselves from Our Fears, by Rav Dovid Gottlieb
Most people are beset by many fears: fear of dying, fear of poverty, fear of loneliness, etc. Surprisingly, if we internalize one specific - and big - fear of Heaven we can free ourselves from all of our other fears.
Sep 29, 2025
The Glory of "Teshuva Gedola", Shabbat Shuva 5786, derasha by Rav Moshe Taragin
Sep 17, 2025
Nitzavim | The Devarim "Revolution", by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
What are we to make of Moshe's "Teshuva speech" in Devarim 30:1-10? The "Parashat haTeshuva" (Devarim 30:1-10) seems to double back on itself, introducing Teshuva and then - introducing it again. Based loosely on a wonderful shiur by Rav Baruch Gigi,...
Sep 15, 2025
Rav Soloveitchik on Teshuva (11): Appreciating Our Dual Relationship With Hashem, by Rav Dovid Gottlieb
What is the basis of our relationship with Hashem - what we inherit from our parents or something more personal? What does sin do to that relationship and how does teshuva repair the relationship?
Sep 4, 2025
Rav Soloveitchik on Teshuva (10): The Secret Power that Makes Teshuva Possible, by Rav Dovid Gottlieb
What is it that allows us to achieve atonement for our sins - what happened to "do the crime, do the time"?