Memories and Teshuva: What can we learn from the Kavanaugh circus
My sister Lisy and I have an ongoing dispute for many years; we have mutually decided that it will be resolved only after 120 when we can “review the videotape”. She insists that, many years ago, she and I went to see West Side Story at a cinema, and that I embarrassed her by singing along loudly with the soundtrack. I know that — after hearing my mom’s record many times as a child — I first saw the film much later life. We are both absolutely certain that we are right, and that the other is totally mistaken. At the same time, neither of us thinks that the other is lying; I think that she is nuts and vice versa. Clearly, memories work in strange ways. Whether “what’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget”, or whether we choose to remember things differently than the way they really happened, it is quite common that our vivid memories, or lack of memory, may have little resemblance to what actually happened in the past. ...