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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:56:29 EST
In a message dated 1/20/03 11:28:32 AM, stories@PEACEPATH.ORG writes: << I think that when forgivenesss truly happens everyone can begin to be healed, 'the victim' and the one who injures. >> In Jewish thought, a requirement for forgiveness is that the one who has done wrong must ASK for forgiveness FROM the injured party. If the one who injures us asks forgiveness of us, we are required to forgive. We cannot, by definition be expected to forgive for another who has been injured or to forgive when no one acknowledges wrong doing and asks. And - forgiveness does not require that we expose ourselves to injury repeatedly. Just to confuse matters, there is a wonderful story about the Ba'al Shem Tov's storyteller where a man knows he is forgiven when someone tells him his own story. Doug Lipman tells a beautiful version and it's in The Classic Tales: 4000 years of Jewish Lore by Ellen Frankel - titled The Forgotten Story. Gail Gail Rosen, storyteller 410-486-3551 721 Howard Rd. Pikesville MD 21208 NEW website www.GailRosen.com Check out the Healing Story Alliance website: HREF="http://www.HealingStory.org">www.HealingStory.org | ||