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When Teshuvah Feels Impossible

Sep 19, 2025 By Noam Blauer | Nitzavim | Rosh Hashanah

Are we really being set up for success for this whole teshuvah business? We might commit to doing all the preparation鈥攋ournaling, going to shul, talking to therapists, chatting with rabbis, calling up hurt family and friends, New Year鈥檚 resolutions, etc.鈥攁nd it still feels inadequate. Am I actually morally transformed? I am some infinitesimally small fraction of a hypermodern, global, complex network. My actions bear consequences for people on the other side of the globe I will never meet and whose names I will never even know. I still need to bring teshuvah to bear on my most intimate relationships, but is this millennia-old process suitable to the messiness and uncertainty of modern moral life?