An easy and meaningful fast to all my Jewish readers.
This blog will be going dark until after my Saturday night break-fast.
You wouldn’t want me blogging on an empty stomach, anyway. You have no idea how crabby I get by sundown.
As Jews all over the world fast and pray on this Day of Atonement, I would like to point out that Israel is forced to enact a full closure on the West Bank, and set her armed forces to the highest alerts—because today is the day that terrorists most crave murdering Jews.
And now is the time of year for me to say: If I offended any of you, I ask your forgiveness. It wasn’t intentional. (Unless you’re a Jew-hater. Then it was.) Yeah, I know, that’s probably not how it’s supposed to work. But I have a problem with forgiveness. I’m working on it.
If you’re not Jewish, and want to help out this Yom Kippur, donate food to your local food bank. They tend to always need peanut butter, canned fish, canned soups, vegetables, and pasta.
If someone refuses to grant forgiveness after three times (of sincere asking) then you are off the hook. If someone refuses to ask forgiveness after you have given them the chance, they they will get punished (like the anti-Semites). You are not supposed to ask forgiveness from them, they are first supposed to repent and ask your forgiveness as part of that. Thus, if Dhimmi Carter would publicly acknowledge his sins (in publishing that book among many others) and ask our forgiveness, then we could grant it to him. If he were to get upset at being called Dhimmi then we are off the hook because it is part of an attempt to explain his sin to him.