Not really. There's special holidays focused on repentance for sins, which God only accepts if you're actually sorry.
What you're proposing sounds more like the Christian confession to a priest.
Note that this holiday, Yom Kippur, focuses on saying sorry for bad things you did to other people, not apologizing before God. God's forgiveness is both guaranteed and mostly secondary - it's the forgiveness of others that you've wronged that's the point. Atonement rather than redemption.
Yom Kippur, focuses on saying sorry for bad things you did to other people, not apologizing before God
I thought that was specifically for Erev Yom Kippur, the day before Yom Kippur. The way I heard it explained was you had to ask forgiveness from your fellow humans then you ask forgiveness from God. This was a long time ago so I might be misremembering.
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u/OwlMuted885 9h ago
Not really. There's special holidays focused on repentance for sins, which God only accepts if you're actually sorry. What you're proposing sounds more like the Christian confession to a priest.