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I hope you're having a good week.

And to those who observed Yom Kippur,

Gamar Khatima Tova, on Yom Kippur, we spend time asking for forgiveness. It's the day of

atonement, where we atoned for our sins throughout the last year. And then at the end of that day, the slate is said to be

wiped clean. And you start anew. And one of the things that you're supposed to be doing in the

lead-up to Yom Kippur, but you can do it year-round, is the act of Chuvah where you ask for forgiveness from people

for whom you have wronged, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And the Hebrew word for

Chichuva means returning, although we often view it as repentance.

And in Jewish thinking, there are three actions someone must take to repent.

One is they must confess to what they did.

Two is they need to express regret about what they did.

And three, they need to vow not to repeat it again. And if this is something that was done to harm another person, there is thinking that it cannot be truly

made right until the wrong has been righted. So restitution paid or repairing what you broke,

things like that.

And I've been thinking about this, of course, in the context of housewives.

And the types of apologies we get on housewives. And it's interesting to think through just the acknowledgement, the confession of what someone

did, such as Kathy Hilton, I said very unkind things.

And two, I am sorry that I said those things. I regret saying those things. I think what has been

missing from a lot of these apologies is that I won't do that again. And I haven't heard that from Kathy or from

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