Segulas Shabbos Teshuva

The Gerrer Rebbe, the Bais Yisrael, writes (Bais Yisrael vaYeilech tov-shin-tes-vov) that the first Shabbos of the new year can give us the vitality and chiyus we need to charge us up for the entire coming year! The Medrash tells us that when Odom HoRishon sinned, he did teshuva on the first Shabbos of creation, and his teshuva was accepted. Odom then infused that Shabbos with the power of teshuva so that all subsequent generations would share the power of teshuva, to return to Hashem