Tag: Teshuvah
A society is measured by its capacity for forgiveness
As president of Israel, many requests for clemency are placed before me. Every request is a world unto itself, but some are unusual. Not long ago I signed a clemency request and erased the...
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Can a divided nation learn to forgive?
In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games was not merely an athletic competition, but a religious ritual that was supposed to mandate a truce in all armed conflicts so the Hellenic world could gather in...