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Before Rosh Hashanah, Let Go of the Person Who Hurt You - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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One of my Rebbe's essential life principles is, I wouldn't do it to you, but if you do it to me, it's okay. If you do something bad to me and I could really get back at you for [music] it, and I give up on that, I resist the knee-jerk reaction to resent and try and take revenge, the Gemara says that Hashem responds measure for measure and forgives all my sins. All my sins. Another source of this idea is the Tomer Devorah, which says that even though we constantly flout the will of Hashem and use our God-given abilities to go against His will, nevertheless, He constantly grants us the power to continue to do this and doesn't, so to speak, bear a grudge. During this time before Rosh Hashanah, when Hashem opens the books of judgment, the books of life and death, think of someone who's wronged you, and even if that was something really terrible, and try and remove all resentment from your heart and let it go. If you do that, Hashem will bless you and forgive you for everything [music] you did against Him.