Teshuvah is Better Than An Edit Button
Tech Tribe Dispatch 168
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“if you see an edited Tweet it's because we're testing the edit button this is happening and you'll be okay”
—@twitter
“There’s also something cowardly about an edit button. When I tweet a typo — this happens often — I either leave it up or quickly delete it and repost it without errors. It’s a penitential process. I know I let down my reply guys and I want to do better for them.”
—Sarah Jones, Intelligencer
What if we had the capacity to edit our mistakes - to correct the typos, fumbles and mistakes in our lives? An edit button that could correct what we did wrong…
Rather than leaving our mistakes as an everlasting penitential red letter, Judaism focuses on teshuvah.
Teshuvah, my friends, is better than an edit button. It’s not repentance — shame and regret — it’s the Hebrew word for return - to turn around and realize that the goodness and wholeness we seek was always there with us.
When we err, we show how far we are from our source, and when we turn inwards, we realize how close it was all along.
For there is nothing so distant as two people standing back to back, with the entire circumference of the world between them, and nothing so near as when they turn around and realize, face to face, they were always together.
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