Past sins don’t destroy you. Past stories do.

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Past sins don’t destroy you. Past stories do.

A couple came to me, they wanted to get divorced. Why? Because he told her what he did before they got married.

Rabbi Shalom Landau שליט״א explains: Not because of what he did, but because he told her. Never do that. Don’t drag the past into your marriage. It’s not her business, and it’s not even yours anymore. Hashem already wiped it away.

On Yom Kippur, everything is reset. The slate is clean. A new book opens. Dragging the past back doesn’t bring closeness, it plants poison.

And the same is true with Hashem. After Yom Kippur people say: “But what about the sins I did before?” Hashem says: I erased them. Don’t bring them back.

Why hold on to what Hashem already forgave? Live forward. Clean. Renewed. Whole. That’s the power of Yom Kippur — the chance to start again.

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