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Rabbi Guy Matalon - Forgiveness

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so let's get started we have as you can see we have lots of books to go through the torah says you shall not seek revenge and you shall not bear a grudge against the sons or people of your nation and then the next part of the verse is probably one of the most famous verses in the torah i'm just going to give you the first two words keep going what's the end of the verse ani hashem you shall love your fellow jew as yourself i am the lord rashi says he quotes a gemara in yuma and we are going to look at that gemara and he says what is this business of bearing a grudge he says something what is bearing a grudge when you keep eva hate in your heart even now it doesn't translate into revenge it's enough that in your heart you're holding some sort of ill will against another person without seeking or waiting for an opportunity to get the guy okay that's rashi the rashbam says don't seek revenge to pay him back evil for evil that he did for you that the torah says you cannot do velo tito and what do we say by not bearing a grudge says the rashban even in your heart you shouldn't bear a grudge you should let it go and it means in these cases which we're going to look at the case of the gemara in cases that you are absolutely right if you're seeking revenge when you're wrong that's for sure is bad right like you stole from somebody and they stole back from you like how dare he steal for me right there is this concept called honor among thieves right that even criminals have a

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