[thereisone] Yom Kippur

From: Gutman Locks <locks.gutman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: thereisone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 07:20:25 +0300

Yom Kippur

    “For on this day He will forgive you, purity you, that you be cleansed
from all your sins before G-d”[i] The holiest day of the year; thank G-d
for this day of forgiveness.

     One of the high points in the Yom Kippur prayer service comes when we
call out;

*“Teshuvah, Tefilla, Tzedakah” *

                                         (Repentance, Prayer, Charity)

     Where this prayer appears in the holiday prayer books the rabbis have
inserted a word above each of them. Above Repentance is fasting, above
Prayer is voice, and about Charity is money.

     The obvious reason they are there is to point out the tools we use to
accomplish those deeds. But there is a deeper reason the rabbis chose those
specific words to teach that lesson. Each of these words has the same
gematria (numerical value). The letters in each word add up to 136. Now why
did the rabbis go out of their way to choose those particular words? There
are many other words that could have taught these lessons. Having the same
gematria shows us that each of these acts, Repentance, Prayer and Charity
are equally important. We need them all.

     The next question is, why 136? What does this number have to do with
this subject? To search for the answer look at all the other words in the
*Chumash* (Torah) that have that same gematria and see if you can find
something they have in common.

Gematria-The Spice of Torah by Gutman Locks

https://www.judaicapress.com/products/gematria-spice-of-torah

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[i] Leviticus 16:30

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