Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Inviting In Your Unwanted Guests: An IFS Approach to Teshuva

<p>We often imagine Yom Kippur as a massive cleaning operation. Get rid of the jealousy, anger, shame, and desires we would rather not admit to. Make the house presentable. Then Hashem can come in.</p><p><br></p><p>But hachnasas orchim teaches us a different avodah. A host knows how to give a guest a place in his home without giving the guest ownership of the house. What would it mean to relate to the unwanted parts of ourselves in the same way?</p><p><br></p><p>In this shiur, delivered at Aish Gesher for Women, Rav Burg explores a more honest approach to teshuvah. Drawing on Avraham Avinu, , the kapparah of a person’s table, and the Kohen Gadol entering the Kodesh HaKodashim, we learn how to invite our parts in and bring our full self to Hashem.</p><p><br></p><p>You do not have to clean the house before Hashem comes in. Yom Kippur is the day you let Him into the rooms that still need cleaning.</p>