Yom Kipper is for Imperfect People

Question:
I find Yom Kippur depressing.

Why spend a day focusing on our sins and failures? Do we need to be reminded, how far we are from being perfect?
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Answer:
Yom Kippur is a celebration of being human. And being human, means being imperfect.

Human failure is so common, that G-d has placed on the calendar an annual day of forgiveness.


It is not an optional holiday, only for those who happen to have sinned. Yom Kippur comes every single year, for every single person.
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There may be mess-ups that we have to make amends for. G-d is so not surprised by our failings, that He begrudgingly allows us to clean-up day every year, rather we were never meant to be perfect.


Every Yom Kippur we receive a note from G-d saying something like this:
I know you are human, and that humans are not perfect. I made you that way, and I love you anyway. In fact, that's why I love you - because you are not perfect; I already had perfection, before I created you.

What I want from creation, is an imperfect world, that strives to improve. That is filled with human beings that fail, but get up and move ahead.

By being imperfect, but nevertheless persevering, you have fulfilled the purpose of your creation. You have achieved the one thing that I can't do without you - you have brought the perfect G-d, into an imperfect world.

Thanks. With Love,
G-d
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For all of us who are not perfect, Yom Kippur is our day. But rather than be depressed by failings, we are propelled by them.


Every slip up, every failed attempt ,at living up to our calling, is another step forward, in our growth and development. Struggling with our mission, is itself a part of the mission.
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Yom Kippur is the day, G-d thanks us for being human, and we thank G-d ,that we aren't perfect. If we were, then we'd have nothing to do.