riority, the illusion of grandeur which blinds us to the situation of others, we tend to see only ourselves. We become overly sensitive and easily offended, able to hate or be jealous at the first opportunity.
We think only of the self. What happens during the day is important or unimportant, remembered or forgotten, a sourced of joy or pain, only in relation to its effect upon us.
,Judaism believes that because of what it does to us forgiveness is desirable. It is not neutral invalue.
There are differences between “pardoning” (which is a legal term), “condoning” (which
implies a justification of the offense), “excusing” (which implies that the offender had a good reason for committing the offense), “forgetting” (which implies that the memory of the offense has simply decayed or slipped out of conscious awareness), and “denying”
(which implies simply an unwillingness to perceive the harmful injuries that one has incurred).
Forgiveness is for the forgiver. It liberates energy misderected and allow human beings to pursue the ideal:
To do justice, love goodness and walk modestly with God.