{"id":342,"date":"2007-11-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/what-characteristics-contribut-1.html"},"modified":"2007-11-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:00:00","slug":"what-characteristics-contribut-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/what-characteristics-contribut-1.html","title":{"rendered":"What Characteristics Contribute to Sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a joke for you: Two women finally decided to stop a quarrel that had gone on for years. One said to the other &#8220;Ok, from now on, I wish for you everything you wish for me.&#8221; The other huffed and answered, &#8220;Oh, you are starting up with me again!&#8221;<br \/>\nOne term for sin in Judaism is <em>het<\/em>, which is an archery term for missing the mark. Much sin is missing, getting it wrong. Sometimes our &#8220;sins&#8221; are more like missteps.  It can be easier to forgive when we believe the person who says, &#8220;But I didn\u2019t mean it.&#8221; How much does the other person\u2019s intention matter to you when you think about forgiving them? <\/p>\n<p>But there are other terms, <em>pesah<\/em>,<em>avon<\/em>; not all sin is missing. Same question: What does this mean? Some is deliberate cruelty, callous indifference. Callousness may be the hardest to forgive; even in hatred there is heat. When another person deliberately aimed to hurt you, does their desire for forgiveness mean they really have changed? Explain your answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;David Wolpe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a joke for you: Two women finally decided to stop a quarrel that had gone on for years. One said to the other &#8220;Ok, from now on, I wish for you everything you wish for me.&#8221; The other huffed and answered, &#8220;Oh, you are starting up with me again!&#8221; One term for sin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-the-art-of-forgiving"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Characteristics Contribute to Sin? - Content Feeds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/what-characteristics-contribut-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Characteristics Contribute to Sin? - Content Feeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is a joke for you: Two women finally decided to stop a quarrel that had gone on for years. 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