Every man can fall, but the idea is to get up.
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis was giving a speech to a group of woman prisoners in Ramle. She says: Ofall my programs, perhaps that little speech in the dust of Ramle was my most moving experience. We stayed the entire afternoon. The woman had myriad questions. They wanted to study, start classes, and find their way back to their heritage.
We were about to leave, when one of the girls approached me and pressed a piece of paper into my hand. “Would you take it to Jerusalem,” she asked, her eyes full of tears, “and place it in a crevice in the Western Wall?”
On the note were written the four most beautiful words that a human being can articulate. “Almighty G-d, forgive me,” it read.
Four words that enable a man to look within his soul and start all over again. The path back will not be easy. Whatever onemight do, there would always be a number attached to his name. But in the Heavenly Courts, such matters are judged differently. There, if a man truly repent, his forgiveness is complete. G-d actually erases a man’s past and gives him a new lease on life.
Life of Torah 