נושא עוןFeeding the Destroyer

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He feeds even the harm we made, waiting for us to undo it.

'Bearing iniquity' goes further. Citing the Mishnah that every transgression acquires an accuser, Cordovero says each sin creates a destructive being (mashchit) that stands before God. Since nothing exists without divine sustenance, God could justly refuse to feed it and send it to collect from its maker. Instead He sustains it until one of three things happens: the sinner repents and undoes it, it is ended through suffering, or the debt is paid in Gehinnom. He reads Cain's 'my sin is too great to bear' this way. The human lesson: bear patiently with the harm another has done you while it still lingers, until he repairs it.

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