Opinion Today: So you’ve been canceled

A Yom Kippur atonement guide. 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The comparisons come easily in large part because they’re true — many religious groups do, or at least once did, have mechanisms for separating moral transgressors from the community. But these comparisons have also long struck me as lacking. In many religious contexts, the goal of public shaming was to provoke penance and ultimately reconciliation, an idea now largely overlooked. Perhaps that’s why so many of the rabbis, priests and pastors you speak to today about cancel culture focus not only on finding fault, but also on [forgiveness](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjIcE2P0TiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8xOC9vcGluaW9uL3NvY2lhbC1qdXN0aWNlLWNocmlzdGlhbml0eS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjEwOTEzJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTQwMjc0Jm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTY4Nzg5JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgphODY8P2HqeImOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~). [Rabbi David Wolpe’s essay,](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjIcE2P0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wOS8xMi9vcGluaW9uL3lvbS1raXBwdXItZm9yZ2l2ZW5lc3MuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIxMDkxMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD00MDI3NCZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD02ODc4OSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYTg2PD9h6niJjlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) which we’re publishing in advance of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins with the premise that public shaming, though powerful, is an inadequate social corrective. He offers us a series of operable practices, drawn from Jewish teachings on repentance, that all of us can practice to create a more functional culture of forgiveness. Some of these ideas may be familiar ones in need of reinforcing: A sincere apology should focus on the other person’s hurt, not on justifications for your actions. And holding a grudge can harm the grudge-bearer almost as much as the person begrudged. But others may be new, like the suggestion that once someone has been forgiven, you shouldn’t remind them of their past sin. “To do so,” Wolpe writes, “is to re-establish a hierarchy that true forgiveness disavows.” This essay is particularly good for those of us trying to figure out how to apologize or forgive in the few days left before Yom Kippur. 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