Today the Jewish world celebrates Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar.

The central themes of Yom Kippur are atonement and repentance.

Jews believe that before one can be forgiven one must right any wrongs done to others and apologize for them.

From a strictly secular view it means not only taking responsibility for your own actions, but also cleaning up any messes resulting from them.

For example, if you took credit for someone else’s idea then you need to admit it and make sure the other person receives the credit (atonement), directly apologize to that person (repentance) and not do it again.

Repeating the behavior makes it obvious that there is no real remorse and that you see getting caught as the true offense.

Flickr image credit: Rich Anderson

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