The 20 Principles of Teshuvah according to Rabenu Yonah
- Regret
- Leaving Sin
- Sorrow
- Expressions of Sorrow
- Worry
- Shame
- Humbling and Lowering Oneself
- Humility in Deed
- Breaking Physical Desire
- Amelioration of deeds in the same areas as the sin
- Searching one’s ways
- Investigating the magnitude of sin
- Seeing the light sins as great sins in his eyes
- Confession
- Prayer
- Correcting misdeeds
- Pursuing kindness and truth
- Constantly remembering one’s sins
- Forsaking sin when challenged
- Turn others from sin
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