Forgiving the Unforgivable: Letting go of the Past to Create a Better Future

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yisroel Roll’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so welcome to the second part of our five dvd series on discovering yourself and tonight's lecture is called as you just heard forgiving the unforgivable behind me is the famous tower bridge one of the most well-known sites in london in fact people often get mixed up with london bridge but now it's tower bridge and of course the reason it's called tower bridge is because of something just over here walk with me because over here is the famous tower of london this is where henry viii and countless english monarchs used to put people in the tower which was of course a precursor for their execution their beheading if in any way they insulted or offended the majesty of the king or even the queen nothing was too small to offend the king they found it very easy to put you there and very easy to put you there and extraordinarily difficult to forgive you for what you've done wrong if you'd done something that offended the king off with your head it was extremely easy to offend an english monarch and they found almost every offence unforgivable about um two years ago i was standing in a line at manchester airport and my wife and i together with another couple we were very friendly with were going to switzerland to have a weekend away

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2. 5:52and i detected the slightest hint of an accent mostly an american accent but it was…
3. 12:04didn't drag god's name through the mud but if you did that so you've done a…
4. 18:14ashamed but it was me i was really broke you know i'm a campus rabbi and…
5. 24:25sorry it's forbidden for a person to be cruel believe his past and not allow himself…
6. 30:36victims and so obviously looking around here i'm sure everybody can understand that when you lose…
7. 36:44the appropriate equipment to make that journey to climb that hill try and do in your…
8. 43:25her degree which she did successfully her fiance told me the following story her father took…
9. 49:31then very impressive um look you probably know the holocaust survivors themselves there is a horrible…
10. 55:36and so we're standing around the bar and of course being a scotsman this was my…

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