Tisha B’Av is the beginning of Teshuvah, the process of turning that we hope to complete on Yom Kippur, the process of returning to ourselves and to God. And the acknowledgment of the unresolved in our lives, as a people and as individuals, is the beginning of the sacred power the Days of Awe grant us—to transform our lives in this moment when we feel the pull of both the waning moon and the setting sun; in this place, in this life, here and now.
