[Avodah] Your Father Instructed that You Must Forgive Us

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, January 6, 2009 2:56 pm, Zev Sero wrote:
: Meir Rabi wrote:
:> But our problem is, It makes no sense. A forced confession is not a
:> confession and a forced apology is not an apology and a forced
:> forgiveness is not forgiveness.
:
: It doesn't matter.  So long as he continues to act as if he forgave
: them, and doesn't kill them all now that Yaacov is safely dead (as
: Esav had planned to do to Yaacov), they don't care whether he truly
: forgives them.

More charitably, they despaired of being forgiven, and were willing to
settle for saving their lives.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha