Judge Dennis Davis
Repentance, Reconciliation, and the Lessons of the High Holy Days for the Contemporary World
Summary
Judge Dennis Davis discusses why the lessons of the the days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have relevance for us, not just individually, but socially, politically and economically.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.
Yes, I think we are. I think we are, because otherwise we can never move on. Doesn’t mean we have to forget. I think that was one of the great insights of Nelson Mandela. That we should never forget but we should because we should never forget for what happened, but we should forgive, otherwise we can’t move on.