Therefore, she says to offer the other cheek in return for a slap. Obviously, people can only believe that this is a sublime trait, but cannot attain it. The result is inevitable failure and perpetual guilt. The aim of Christianity then becomes the alleviating of guilt, by the granting of forgiveness. But the forgiveness is not a prelude to a holier life.
Forgiveness becomes the whole goal.
By the sinner is trapped by her. To believe that which can be practiced is the special genius of Jewish spirituality. Emunah is an ineffable state of being. High poetry is unstructured, without meter and rhyme. It has total freedom of imagination without restrictions.