Article: HIGH HOLIDAYS FEATURE (7): Yom Kippur affords penance for righteous

Irving Greenberg
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
08-08-1996
HIGH HOLIDAYS FEATURE (7): Yom Kippur affords penance for righteous and. wicked alike

By Irving Greenberg

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (JTA) -- Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, brings with it the promise of the impossible: If we repent, the past can be undone.

Through genuine regret and rejection of past bad behavior, and by resolving not to repeat the action in the future, an act of doing wrong is wiped out, as if it never was done -- thanks to the miracle of God's forgiveness. If a fellow human being was injured or deprived by the wrong behavior, then repentance must include restoration or reparation to the victim.

Yet the very basis of Yom Kippur ...

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