YWRabbi Yosef WeizmanTorah. Thought. Life.
From “המסע שלך אל עצמך”

If Yom Kippur Brings Atonement, Why Do We Still Need Purification?

Forgiveness answers one question: what is the status of the wrong? Purification asks another: what remains inside the person after the wrong has been faced? Someone may be forgiven and still carry habits, shame, defensiveness, or a self-story organized around the failure. Yom Kippur distinguishes legal or spiritual release from the slower work of becoming different. Atonement can open the door; purification is walking through it. The goal is not endless self-suspicion but a life in which the forgiven past no longer dictates present reactions.

הדברים נגעו בכם? שתפו אותם עם אדם נוסף

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