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September 16, 2026

Can Modern Man Have an Authentic Experience of Standing before God on Yom Kippur?

Fear of death and the beauty of community.

In 1982, the Orthodox journal Tradition published a deeply personal essay on “T’shuvah and Authenticity” by Yehudah Gellman, a professor of philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. With the Ten Days of Repentance (t’shuvah) upon us, the journal has made it publicly available. The crisis of authenticity that Gellman describes seems even more acute in our digital age:

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