- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. Since, as you have mentioned, it is most crucial to comply with the mitzva of Teshuva on Yom Kippur. What does Horav Miller Shlit’a maintain that is a mitzva that one can easily comply with and at the same time is truly important?
A. Certainly the mitzva of Teshuva is the real act necessary for compliance with the day of Yom Kippur. Not doing it, would be comparable to not eating matza on Pesach.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that to be able to comply with the great and most important mitzva of proper Teshuva, one should choose an act or mitzva that one is certainly sure he can change and truly make it right.
He suggested as an example, the coming to shul five minutes before davening starts. The above can have tremendous influence in ones and others attendants davening.
Similarly, everyone knows something meaningful that one can easily change and be better at, thus complying with the minimum but with certainty and significantly the mitzva of Teshuva.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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