Jews take collective responsibility for the moral targets that get missed in life. At least ten days before Rosh HaShannah prayers called Selihot are added where, having empathy for ourselves as only human, we admit personal and collective ownership of the full range of problematic human behaviors:
ashamnu
We are guilty (spiritually desolate and distant from our higher selves)
bagadnu
We have betrayed (our loved ones, the community, the planet)
