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work_65et3y44tvgtbfilsbbc2txksu	Louis E. Newman	Balancing Justice and Mercy	2013	22	.pdf	application/pdf	11133	584	61	KEY WORDS: forgiveness, justice, mercy, Jewish theology, social order But others see forgiveness primarily as a way of healing the offended © 2013 Journal of Religious Ethics, Inc. party's own pain, and so imagine that one could forgive the offender in much contemporary self-help literature and captures an increasingly popular view according to which forgiveness is a gift to the one counts as a moral act of forgiveness if it is meant to benefit the offender forgiven." If the repentance of the offender were not a precondition for this duty to forgive, where the offender has repented, Judaism avoids the problem that forgiveness can be here do I endorse the view that forgiveness is paradoxical in that if the offender repents, it behavior." By contrast, unconditional forgiveness meets the offender Where securing justice is our primarily religious duty, a moral commitment rooted in our devotion to God, offering forgiveness will forever be	./cache/work_65et3y44tvgtbfilsbbc2txksu.pdf	./txt/work_65et3y44tvgtbfilsbbc2txksu.txt