Approaching the Bar and Moving it as We Go It was the season of the High Holidays a few years ago. After many days of reciting slichot, the special prayers for forgiveness, someone turned to me and paraphrased the famous line from “Love Story” and asked, “I know love is not never having to say I’m sorry, but do I always have to say I’m sorry?” The truth is that, even months and months after the High Holidays, we Jews are in a perpetual state of asking for forgiveness and working toward repentance. Three times daily, we praise God for being open to our change by reciting the bracha of הרוצה בתשובה and three times daily, we ask for forgiveness when we say סלח לנו . How is it that 6 times a day, we cannot get it right? How can it be that behaving the way we should is so elusive that we have to mention it so often throughout the day? The first and most common answer is that no matter how hard we try, we will never hit the standard we want and that God wants from us. Thi
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