He’s a Marbeh
Now, we have to know however, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is not forgiving us only once. The truth is, He’s chanun, He's a merciful King, a merciful Father. That’s the next bracha in the Shemoneh Esrei after haotzeh b’teshuva: Baruch Atah Hashem marbeh lisloach – We thank You, Hashem, the One who forgives very many things. Because we didn't only do one misdeed. Let’s be honest; we sinned above and beyond.
It’s only dishonest people who have good consciences. Like I always say, when you pass by a Reform temple on Yom Kippur, everybody is orderly. Nobody is shouting, nobody is weeping. You pass by a shtiebel or yeshiva, they are roaring with penitence and weeping. You see, you think, it’s a sinful crowd in here.
The difference is this. In a frum place they have a conscience. The word conscience means con-science, which means they know, they know about themselves. In the other place you have no conscience; their conscience is dead. It's like a cemetery. In the cemetery on Yom Kippur nobody's weeping. Maybe in the Next World they are, but in the cemetery it’s only silence under the heavy expensive tombstones.
