Must atonement yield forgiveness?

A Yom Kippur reflection

Oct 11, 2024

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A caricature of a person seeking forgiveness, kneeling with hands clasped, looking up with an expression of remorse and sincerity. The person has exaggerated features like a large, pleading face with wide eyes and slightly oversized hands. The setting is simple, with the focus on the emotional expression of seeking forgiveness, and the background is soft and minimal to keep attention on the figure.

In the Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur is a day of reckoning – a time for reflection, repentance, and seeking forgiveness. For breaking each other’s hearts; for causing each other pain. But in 5785, the Day of Atonement comes after a year of so many bad actions by such genuinely horrible players that it seems right to consider where some things actually ju…

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