Skip to content
Unitive Knowledge Society
Search

Accents are optional; quotes find an exact phrase.

Teshuvah

Return: repentance in Judaism, the turning back of the soul to God.

Also: repentance, return

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

Teshuvah, return, is repentance: acknowledging wrong, regretting it, making amends and resolving not to repeat it. The rabbis taught that it was created before the world and can transform sins into merits. The Days of Awe are devoted to it, and Kabbalah associates it with the sefirah Binah.