When Jews conceive of questions of guilt and forgiveness, they are often framed around the biblical concept of “Teshuvah.” While Teshuvah is often translated as “repentance,” that terminology has a particularly harsh Christian connotation that loses the process that the Hebrew word connotes. Teshuvah literally means “return” (as in one who “returns to God”), so it implies a repair necessary to return a relationship, or a life, to its previous wholeness.