With Yom Kippur just a few days away, many of us are hard at work, concentrating on teshuvah, repentance, and how to reconnect wholeheartedly with God. But the truth is, it’s been a hard year, and, for many of us, that’s taken a toll on our relationship with God. As much as we long for closeness with our Creator, there’s anger there too, and some days, the desire to just run away from Him entirely. Where does that leave us as we enter the holiest day of the year?
The answer may lie in the very book we read on Yom Kippur itself: the book of Jonah.
Jonah runs away from God. He rebels against God. He’s hardly a model for a pure and simple teshuvah. But maybe that’s the point. Maybe the lesson Jonah is meant to teach us about getting close to God lies in the moments of tension, when God and Jonah seem furthest apart.
Join Rabbi Fohrman as he brings to light the meaning in Jonah’s tumultuous relationship with God and what this tells us about the very essence of teshuvah. These insights will help you walk into Yom Kippur ready for a truly deep connection. | 
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