How To Obtain An Apology:
If you feel the need to seek an apology from someone in order to move forward in your relationship with them, I suggest you approach them and tell them from the outset that you will forgive them, and not bring the matter up again, but you feel and would appreciate a heartfelt apology.
How Yom Kippur Became Yom Kippur:
Yom Kippur became the day of atonement/forgiveness for all time, when Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the second set of tablets bearing the Ten Principles of Behavior Towards G-d and One's Fellow Creations aka "The Ten Commandments." That day was the 10th day of the seventh month which would become Yom Kippur. The existence of these second set of tablets was a sign that the Jewish people had been forgiven for the adulterous sin of the Golden Calf. Moreover, the plans for the Mishkan=Tabernacle were back on the table. The Mishkan would enable G-d's Shechinah to reside in the midst of the Jewish people, analagous to a husband residing with his wife. This is the relationship, as proclaimed by the prophet Hosea, that G-d desires to have with each and every person on earth, not a master-servant relationship, but rather a teacher-partner relationship.
May we all become partners with G-d in our own and one another's conquering/sublimation of our base desires in the pursuit of higher, holier, selfless pursuits.
G-d Bless and Gemar Chatima Tovah,
Rabbi Mordechai Martin Goodman
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