R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah: Light or Salvation?
Thinking about our own transgressions and repentance is hard, and so it makes sense that we often latch on to metaphors to help us think about these ideas. Perhaps the strangest metaphor I know of appears in the Zohar.
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