Tehillim and Forgiveness at Half Price

Tehillim and Forgiveness at Half Price

When Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl was approached by “penitents”—Jews who had committed many sins and resolved to return to G-d—he would give them a “path of repentance”: he instructed them to fast a certain number of times, go into voluntary exile, or donate their fortune toward redeeming captives. When the Rebbe grew old, he began sending the “penitents” to his son, Rabbi Mordechai. People would leave him smiling: instead of hundreds of fasts, he instructed them simply to read the book of “Tehillim”. When his father asked him why he was granting sinners forgiveness “at half price,” he replied: “I am simply transferring their ‘bundle’ onto my own shoulder.” (Chassidut.ru)