“You know what Yom Kippur is?” he’d asked. “It’s the Day of Atonement.” “You know how it works?” “You ask for forgiveness.” “You ask for two kinds of forgiveness,” Sheldon explained. “You ask God to forgive you for your trespasses against Him. But you also ask people to forgive you for your trespasses against them. You do the second because, according to our philosophy, there is only one thing God can’t do. He can’t forgive you for what you do to other people. You need to ask forgiveness from them directly.” “Which is why there is no forgiveness for murder,” Rhea said. “Because you can’t ask
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