SubscribeThe Jewish take on Mark McGwire: Foregiveness
Now, I’m no Talmudic scholar, but somewhere along the way I’ve heard that Judaism dictates that if someone wrongs you and comes to apologize, you have to accept it.
I have found numerous references to this effect on-line but hesitate to list one over another (“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose,” according to Antonio in The Merchant of Venice.)
So are we thus compelled to forgive — not necessarily forget — McGwire? Of what, exactly, is he guilty? In addition to not being a Talmudic scholar, I’m not a legal scholar, so I don’t know if what he did was technically illegal when he did it. Did he lie at the Congressional hearings, or did he just not answer the questions put to him?
“To err is human; to forgive divine.”
Alexander Pope
On the one hand… on the other hand…on the third hand.
Tevye
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