The recent case of Charlie Kirk’s wife, #ErikaKirk, publicly forgiving her husband’s murderer is not an isolated event. It is a symptom of what is happening in the West: a world that has emptied martial justice of its content and turned forgiveness into a moral spectacle, where the ego of the victim becomes the moral foundation of a civilization that has forgotten its roots.
In the Torah, Cain, after killing Hevel, did not receive a five-star hotel or a lifelong pension. He was sentenced to hard, forced labor, to limit, to rectification. That was his opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of his murdered brother and of the Creator. It is the law of measure for measure (murder = forced labor, in this life or the next). Important detail: this effort is what later generations would call technology and civilization itself. From the fruit of his expiation, Cain became a servant, not a beneficiary.
