Class 12. 2/25 Sin and repentence
Rubenstein, Rabbinic Stories, ch. 39, “The Power of Repentance (Bavli Avodah Zarah 17a),” and ch. 40, “A Sinner’s Good Deed (Yerushalmi Taanit 1:4, 64b),” Download ch. 39, “The Power of Repentance (Bavli Avodah Zarah 17a),” and ch. 40, “A Sinner’s Good Deed (Yerushalmi Taanit 1:4, 64b),” 245–248.
Dorff, To Do the Right and Good, ch. 8, “Communal Forgiveness,” 184–211.
How do the rabbis view sin and repentance? According to Dorff, what is the connection between human forgiveness and divine forgiveness?