Book Group | On Repentance and Repair

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Overview of the 2023-2024 Common Read (from the UUA website): 

"This Common Read offers a glimpse into Judaism, one of our faith’s foundational sources, as we follow Rabbi Ruttenberg’s dive into prescriptions on accountability offered by the 12th-century Jewish physician and scholar, Maimonides. The book unpacks Maimonides’ five-step process: owning the harm we have done, starting to change, making restitution and accepting the consequences, apologizing, and going forward as a changed person who will make different choices.

Using Maimonides’ writings as a framework, Rabbi Ruttenberg points us toward modern-day practices of repentance that can make a difference in our personal, community, and broader societal relationships.

As a UU Common Read selection, this book invites us to follow our own Unitarian Universalist faith into transformative atonement, whether harm has been done to family or friends, within a congregation or other community, or by sweeping wrongs such as genocide and racial oppression."

Learn more at: uua.org/read/repentance-repair