About this episode

Rabbi Bernath discusses his personal experience with forgiveness following a traumatic event in his youth.

Yisroel Bernath was 15 years old living in Chicago and doing what lots of kids in the windy city were doing back then, playing basketball. He and his kippah wearing friends were having a pretty good time. Then everything changed. There were threats, a gun was drawn, shots were fired as he fled. Justice was served but could Yisroel ever forgive the perpetrators? On this episode of Not That Kind of Rabbi we join Rabbi Bernath to talk about his book, The Forgiveness Experiment.

People in this episode

Host: Rabbi Bernath

Guest: Yisroel Bernath

Topics covered

• forgiveness
• personal story
• justice
• trauma
• spirituality

Keywords

• forgiveness
• Yisroel Bernath
• Chicago
• trauma
• justice
• spirituality
• The Forgiveness Experiment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Forgiveness Experiment

Places: Chicago

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