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The Ebenezer Scrooge model: Can Yom Kippur really bring repentance and change?

by | Sep 19, 2026 | JPost | 0 comments

YOM KIPPUR asks us to confront who we were, who we have become, and who we might yet become. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
From Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge to modern psychology, the journey from remorse to lasting behavioral change reveals why Yom Kippur can be both a reckoning and a starting point.