Shalom Bayit: 🙏 Asking an Apology From Your Wife on Yom Kippur Eve🙏

It’s Yom Kippur eve.

Most of us learned as kids to ask friends for forgiveness for no particular reason. However very few of us ask our spouses for forgiveness at this time. That’s unfortunate because your wife is your best friend. She’s your soulmate. And if you don’t feel that way, perhaps it’s exactly because you haven’t adopted this fabulous tradition yet.

The closer the friendship, the more vulnerable the relationship is, the more opportunity there is for hurt feelings.

There’s nothing closer and more vulnerable than the relationship between a husband and a wife. What if your wife asks, “are you also apologizing for what you said noon of April 12th?”

You have no inkling, but you should answer: “Honey, for small transgressions a regular apology would have sufficed. But for that committed noon of April 12th that’s what Yom Kippur apology is for.” Apologize on Yom Kippur Eve for Shalom Bayit.