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Dina Block

Sep 16, 2026

7:59
So the, the concept of teshuvah's so powerful as it is, and how does that tie up, tie into the concepts of kapara and tahara that are also atonement and purity that are also so prominent in Yom Kippur?
8:16
Right.
8:16
So I guess going into Yom Kippur, sort of like the, what we're supposed to do is the process of teshuvah, right, the, the charata, the regretting what we did, the vidui, the saying out loud what we did is such a big focus of Yom Kippur, and the kabbala al ha-atid, the, you know, a- accepting upon ourselves that we're gonna do our best not to do it again.
8:34
And right, the, the avoda, right, the service of the Kohen Gadol and the Bais Hamikdash and on Yom Kippur is all part of that, you know, looking for, for kapara process.
8:44
And right, getting kapara from our sins, from our chatta'im, is really a big part of the day.
8:50
But if you look at the pasuk in the Torah that describes Yom Kippur, the essence of Yom Kippur, it's ki ve-yom ha-zaot kapara lachem letaher etchem mikol chatotechem lefnei Hashem titaru, right? That-

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15:15
Mm-hmm
15:15
... for a match would be appropriate for Yom Kippur.
7:40
Amazing.
7:41
So that's me.
7:42
And you mentioned the, the, y- the idea of halakhic infertility, and you said that you know that I don't love that term.
7:48
Um, so at Nishmat, yeah, we, we like to call it ovulation before mikvah, and I'll explain why.
7:52
Um, it's because that, uh, what, what it means is when someone says halakhic infertility, what they are referring to is that they are ovulating before they get to the mikvah.
8:01
Um, right? They have to wait their waiting days.
8:04
If they're certain Sephardim, it's four days, Ashkenazim or other Sephardim, five days, and then their shivah nekiah, their seven clean days, and then go to the mikvah, so that's 11 or 12 days.

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13:16
What's, what's the next piece?

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