Making a way: the process of repentance and repair

In our Lenten read, On Repentance and Repair, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg draws on the work of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, and his 5-step process of repentance and repair:

1. Naming and owning harm (confession)

2. Starting to change

3. Restitution and accepting consequences

4. Apology

5. Making different choices

This Lent, we invite you to dive deep into empathic and compassionate recognition of harm and injury experienced in order to get a sense of the suffering and pain God is willing to be in with us.

"Repentance—tshuvah—is like the Japanese art of kintsugi, repairing broken pottery with gold. You can never unbreak what you have broken. But with the sincere and deep work of transformation, acts of repair have the potential to make something new."