Who You are Today

Maimonides teaches that “genuine” repentance is when the “Knower of Secrets,” G-d himself, can attest that a person will never commit the same sin again. Yet practically, Jewish law judges a person only by his current, observable deeds and not by what he has in his heart, or what the future may hold.

When it comes to repentance, there is no limit to how much a person can grow, yet even on its most superficial level, it has the power to redeem.