{"id":60406,"date":"2024-10-08T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60406"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:43:49","slug":"real-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/real-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Two daughters died in the Middle East conflict. Their fathers, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, show how one can find a perspective. They will talk to Udi Levy at the Goetheanum about conflict, grief, brotherhood, and peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a pediatrician and adolescent doctor, I have the question of how to encourage young people who are suffering from anxiety and depression to bounce back from blows of fate.\u201d This is what Karin Michael, Co-Head of the Medical Section, says. She sees how Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan deal with the fates of their families as a role model for turning difficult experiences into a positive future. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan live in the West Bank and in Israel; they share the fate of having lost a child in the Middle East conflict: ten-year-old Abir at the hands of an Israeli border policeman and fourteen-year-old Smadar at the hands of a Palestinian suicide bomber. Both fathers met and worked together in the \u201cParents Circle\u2014Families Forum,\u201d an organization for people who have lost loved ones in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marion Debus, also a member of the Medical Section&#8217;s leadership team, says: \u201cThe principle of retribution lives in past-related physical causality and leads to destruction; forgiveness is always something unexpected, something that stems from the freedom of the individual and has a healing effect in a confused social situation.\u201d She appreciates the novel-like depiction of the setting of Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan in the book <em>Apeirogon<\/em> by Colum McCann. \u201cThe Irish writer shows how humanity is interwoven in the most complex ways and carefully reveals aspects of the web of the destiny of the Palestinian conflict: the internal and external conditions for the conflict are not revealed as a mono-directional causal chain but as alternating causes.\u201d Such events, it becomes clear, are based on relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karin Michael hopes that others will feel encouraged by this way of dealing with tragic circumstances to bring their experiences into their communities: \u201cIn every community lives the existential question of how one can honestly forgive when one has suffered loss or injury through the fault of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conversation<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/goetheanum.ch\/en\/events\/vortrag-elhanan-und-aramin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How the deepest pain becomes brotherhood<\/a>, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan in conversation with Udi Levy, October 15, 2024, 7 pm, Goetheanum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Charles Cross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two daughters died in the Middle East conflict. Their fathers, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, show how one can find a perspective. They will talk to Udi Levy at the Goetheanum about conflict, grief, brotherhood, and peace. \u201cAs a pediatrician and adolescent doctor, I have the question of how to encourage young people who are suffering from anxiety and depression to bounce back from blows of fate.\u201d This is what Karin Michael, Co-Head of the Medical Section, says. 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