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Newsletter          September 16, 2010 - 8 Tishrei 5771
   

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Changers
Please don't tell Debbie, but I must use this newsletter to make an important personal announcement: As of this coming Friday evening, the night of Yom Kippur, I will be an entirely new man! I will be righteous, pure and holy. I request that you no longer relate to me as the imperfect person you once knew. I will no longer be him. (You know what? Please tell Debbie about this part!)

I can already hear the doubt in your minds and hearts. One second, please; my antennae are picking up the actual thoughts: "I've heard that line from him before!" Well, this year will be different. I will be a completely new version. At least that is what I infer from all the Yom Kippur essays I am reading. Do you think I should buy a new wardrobe?

I am bothered by some questions: Why wait until Yom Kippur? Am I counting on God doing the extensive work for me? Am I not saying that I need some magic powder to affect this change? Am I admitting that I lack the power to change?

Will God make this magical transformation for me if I don't accept full responsibility? I think not. I think of Yom Kippur as a gift made available to "Changers," people who shoulder the task on their own. "Changers" don't wait for Yom Kippur. They regularly strive to overhaul themselves. Changers live as such every day of the year.

Yom Kippur empowers Changers. It also teaches those of us who have yet to become Changers to learn how to become someone who believes that he possesses the power to renew himself, able to accept the challenge and responsibility.

Hopefully, I will be a new man by the time you receive the next newsletter; I hope to become such a Changer.

I wish each of you the Yom Kippur gift of becoming a Changer, who can transform every aspect of his life for good, joy and blessing. Yom Kippur reminds us that the power is for the taking by all those who choose to live as Changers. That's its magic.

Shabbat Shalom and a Transformational Yom Kippur,

Rabbi Simcha L. Weinberg
President          
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