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Most cases regarding forgiveness are personal, and do not necessitate forgiving a tyrant. But what if one simply cannot forgive? Even if we cannot forgive, it is important to catalogue for ourselves what it takes out of our lives to hold onto the anger and recrimination. How would my life change if I let this…

What can we say about the truly wicked of the world—Hitler or Stalin, dictators and torturers who showed no remorse or human feeling? If forgiveness means amnesty, we cannot grant it. If forgiveness means that we will not allow our fury at their crimes, our resolve to combat them—that we will not allow such feelings…

Religious traditions speak a great deal about forgiveness, as we would expect. They not only ask us to seek forgiveness from God, but ask that we grant it to each other. Maimonides in his “Mishneh Torah,” the great code of law, states clearly that one should not be cruel and withhold forgiveness. Traditions do not…

When we forgive we know it can change more than just the relationship. It ripples out into the world. The one who feels unburdened will be perhaps different with his wife, his children, his co-workers. Working through this journal itself might help make it easier to forgive by reminding us how much of our lives…
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