Ten Days of Repentance

When the Ten Days of reversal or the ten reverential days (Hebrew עשרת ימי תשובה Assereth Jemej teshuvah ) are called the days of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. They fall on the first ten days of the Jewish month of Tishri.

The Jewish tradition according to which all creatures on Rosh Hashanah be addressed, since the first of Tishri was the sixth day of creation, that Adam and Eve were created, have sinned and convicted and pardoned. The divine judgment is on Rosh Hashanah " enrolled " and on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, " weighed " and " sealed ". Who was not yet fully reached before Rosh Hashanah to teshuvah ( repentance ) and therefore received a bad judgment on Rosh Hashanah, it can transform into the ten days by complete repentance in a good judgment. The greeting on Yom Kippur is therefore " gmar Hatimah tova " - may your enrollment will be completed well ( in the Book of Life ).

The reverse can be done by prayers in the early morning, the so-called Slichot, fasting, charity or thinking about yourself.