TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATIONS

A partnership of the Sinagoga Edmond J. Safra – Ipanema with The Office of Rabbi Sacks

There is, on the face of it, a fundamental contradiction in the Torah. On the one hand we hear, in the passage known as the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, the following words:

The Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and truth … Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” (Ex. 34: 7).

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