On such a holy, beautiful day, why do we recite a list of sins again and again?
Because one day of the year is not enough. We wish our souls to be united with her Beloved every day of the year.
So we read out loud through this list, and one by one, through G‑d’s great kindness and love for us, the stains on the clothing of our souls fade away.
Then we rise higher, into a yet more intense light in which the stains can still be detected. And so we repeat the list again.
Until, by the end of Yom Kippur, we enter the new year in sparkling, fresh clothing for our souls. The essence-light of Yom Kippur may now shine within us for an entire year.
From Darkness to Light
Yom kippur, the holiest day of the year and the only day that we are close to HaShem. When saying our prayers and confessing and pleading with HaShem. We acknowlegde, regret and confessed our sins and transgressions before HaShem and promised not to make the same mistakes again. But Yom Kippur is not only about teshuvah. The meaning of teshuvah is " return" and that is what we did. Being close to HaShem and the vows that we made, by declaring to keep the mitzvos and to spread the word of Torah with simcha.
Everything we witness these days is not something randomly happening, but with a reason and it all comes from HaShem. One day we will see how the darkness was truly the most intense form of light.
Every mitzvah we perform, every form of chesed gevura and tiferet, every amount of tzedakah we give, every prayer we recite and every hour comitting ourselves to Torah study, we are shining this bright divine light.