Rosh Hashana, Mentioning Sins

One of the questions that I had for years, was that it says in Halacha (Jewish Law) that on Rosh Hashana one should not mention his sins, he should not say viduy, and so forth. Many skip in Aveinu Malkainu those lines that refer to sin, like the first one Aveinu Malkainu chatanu lefanecha.

If so, what happened there when we take the Sefer Torah out of the Ark, and we say in the "Ribbono Shel Olam" prayer: U'mechol li al kol avonosiy, ve'al kol avonos anshei baisi etc. ve'taharaini mechata'iy ume'avoniy, umepesha'iy, etc.

What happened all of a sudden? Why is that different, why is that permitted, what changed?

A number of years ago on holiday of Simchas Torah, when I was standing in the inner circle by the tzaddik where I spent that Simchas Torah, during Atah Horaisa, it came to me like a flash. The pshat is, that when Klal Yisroel takes the Torah out of the Ark in order to read it, so then all the bad guys disappear, the air is clean without any mekatragim (accusers), and therefore then we can even mention our sins. It's like when Yizkor comes they give a clop on the bima and announce, "kinder, arois" (children, get out!), so too, when they take out the Torah, there is like a proclamation, "mekatragim, arois."

And what seems to me is that this was revealed by Moshe Rabainu, or perhaps accomplished by him, when he said in Parshas BeHa'aloscha "Kuma Hashem Vayafutzu Oiyvecha, Ve'Yanusu Mesanecha Mipanecha."

I found a hint to this in Tehillim, Psalms 68, which is a psalm which the commentaries say is talking about Matan Torah, when we received the Torah on Mount Sinai. There in the opening verses, Dovid HaMelech expresses himself in the manner of the above quoted verses in BeHa'aloscha, "Yakum Elokim, Yafutzu Oiyvav, Ve'yanusu Mesanav MePanav."

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