Love That Will Not Let Me Go
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LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO<br />
A FRESH LOOK AT GENESIS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
In the Character of <strong>Go</strong>d there is a balance of "Loving Kindness" to "Justice" is given as<br />
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The Hebrew word for repentance is teshuvah<br />
, a word derived from a Hebrew root<br />
that means "to return". <strong>Go</strong>d is always ready to welcome our return. The Rabbis stressed<br />
the constant availability of forgiveness to those who return to <strong>Go</strong>d:“<strong>Go</strong>d says to Israel. Open to<br />
me a gate of repentance no bigger than the point of a needle, and I will open to you a gate [of<br />
forgiveness] wide enough to drive a wagon and carts through” (Canticles Rabbah 5:2).<br />
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