Personal Suffering Shame: Berachot 12b; Megillah 25b
Regret: Chagigah 5a Exile [See also More on Exile]: Makkot 2b, 11b
Death: Yoma 85b, 86a
Death of Children: Berachot 5a-b
Death of the righteous: Moed Katan 28a [2x] Lashes: Temurah 3a-b
Physical Suffering: Berachot 5a-b, 17a; Eruvin 41b; Yoma 86a, 87b; Nedarim 41a; Rashi Keritot 26a "v'lo l'chaparah" Childbirth: Rashi Keritot 26a "v'lo l'chaparah"
Poverty and financial difficulty: Eruvin 41b
Bad Spouse: Eruvin 41b
Harsh governments: Tosafot Eruvin 41b #3
Self-Improvement and Performance of Mitzvot
Repentance: Yoma 85b, 86a; Zevachim 7b Generous Acts: Berachot 5a-b Payment of "Kofer": Makkot 2b
Forgiving others: Rosh HaShanah 17a; Yoma 87b; Megillah 28a
Gd forgives the sins of one who mourns for a good person: Shabbat 105b, Moed Katan 25a
The good deeds of the Righteous: Succah 45b
Keeping Shabbat: Shabbat 118b Fasting: Berachot 17a Learning Torah: Berachot 5a-b
Yom Kippur
Passage of Yom Kippur as atonement, even without repentance: Yoma 85b, 86a; Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur atone if one actively refuses to accept its power to atone: Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur atone if one is not aware of the sin he committed: Keritot 18b
Does Yom Kippur atone in the course of the day: Keritot 18b, 25a
Does Yom Kippur atone if one does not observe its laws: Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur atone if one sins with the thought that Yom Kippur will atone: Yoma 87a
Does Yom Kippur atone for financial sin: Keritot 18b
Does Yom Kippur atone for sins in which one has not yet reached the shiur [threshold] to trigger liability for a korban: Keritot 18b
Does Yom Kippur atone for a person who rejects the mitzvot [poreik ol]: Yoma 85b; Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur atone for a Jew who refuses to have a circumcision: Yoma 85b; Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur atone for a megaleh panim batorah shelo k'halachah: one who deduces lessons insulting the Torah, from the Torah: Yoma 85b; Keritot 7a
Does Yom Kippur exempt a person from bringing a chatat or asham [offerings atoning for known guilt]: Keritot 7a, 18b, 25a, 25b-26a, 26a-b
Does Yom Kippur exempt a person from bringing an asham taluy [an offering atoning for uncertain guilt]: Keritot 7a, 18a, 18b-19a, 25a, 25b-26a, 26b
Does a woman bring atonement/purification offerings if she isn't sure whether she gave birth, then Yom Kippur passes, and then she learns that it was a real birth: Keritot 26a
Does one bring a chatat for purification/atonement if he wasn't sure whether he was a metzora, then Yom Kippur passed, and then he found out he had certainly been a metzora: Keritot 26a
Does one bring a chatat for purification/atonement if he wasn't sure whether he was a nazir, then Yom Kippur passed, and then he found out he had certainly been a nazir: Keritot 26a
Does one bring a chatat for purification/atonement if she wasn't sure whether she was a sotah, then Yom Kippur passed, and then she found out she had certainly been a sotah: Keritot 26a
Does Yom Kippur atone for a sin warranting lashes, if the sin occurs before Yom Kippur but it is only discovered afterward: Keritot 26a
If a corpse is found outside a town, and then Yom Kippur passes, do they still perform the eglah arufah rite: Keritot 26a Bava ben Buta's desire to bring a korban asham taluy daily in case he had sinned; he was told not to bring it on the day after Yom Kippur, since Yom Kippur atones for the sort of sin that warrants an asham taluy: Keritot 18a, 25a
Does one bring a korban asham taluy if he committed a possible sin on Yom Kippur itself: Keritot 25a
Does one bring two separate korbanot chatat for an accidental sin committed twice on Yom Kippur, without knowledge of the sin in between the acts: Keritot 18b-19a
Bringing a chatat ha'of even if Yom Kippur passed between the time when one may have incurred liability, and now, if the korban is brought to permit the owner to eat korbanot rather than to atone: Keritot 25a
On Attaining Forgiveness
All laws for repentance and punishments apply equally to males and females: Bava Kama 15a
Difficulty of achieving forgiveness: Chagigah 4b
Distinguishing between the level of avoiding punishment and the level of satisfying Gd within kapparah: Zevachim 6a-b, 7a-b
Learning Torah adding years of life: Yevamot 105a (See Tosafot)
Learning Torah can move someone on to the scale of merit: Berachot 15b-16a
Generous acts adding years of life: Yevamot 105a (See Tosafot)
Gd as the ritual bath of purification of the Jews: Yoma 85b
Gd forgiving the sins of the Jews, even if they are as numerous as the years since Creation: Shabbat 89b
The biblical phrase "He will not forgive": Yoma 86a
Forgiveness after a third commission of a transgression: Yoma 86b, 87a
For a Community, the rules operate differently: Berachot 12b
That which was a sign of our guilt, cannot be used in our defense [ein kateigor naaseh saneigor]: Rosh HaShanah 26a Rain is a sign of Divine forgiveness: Taanit 7b
General Statements on Repentance
One cannot atone via an act which is, itself, sinful: Temurah 20b
Repentance was created before the Universe: Pesachim 54a; Nedarim 39b
Repentance is considered to be an act of wisdom: Nedarim 32b
Repentance is always possible, even until Death: Berachot 10a-b
There is always hope, even for the fully evil: Eruvin 21a-b
The value of repentance at the end of one's life: Kiddushin 40b
Repentance can overturn a Negative Verdict: Rosh HaShanah 17b
One should repent daily, because it may be his last day: Shabbat 153a
Repentance aids in battling the Evil Inclination: Nedarim 32b
Gd creating the potential for Repentance: Succah 52b
Gd's "hand" is outstretched for those who want to Repent: Pesachim 119a
Gd says He can't look at a wicked person, and yet He is always waiting for the wicked to return: Shabbat 104a
Proof of Successful Repentance: Yoma 86b
People who successfully repent can take pride in having their older age compensate for the errors of their youth: Succah 53a
Gradations of transgressions and their repentances: Yoma 85b
Sinning while planning to repent ultimately: Yoma 85b, 87a
Sinning with the expectation that Yom Kippur will gain forgiveness for it: Yoma 87a
Repentance allows Gd to "Transgress" in "Remarrying" the Jews although they have "Married" others in sinning: Yoma 86b
Repentance brings the Redemption: Yoma 86b
Repentance brings physical rejuvenation: Yoma 86a
Repentance is more effective than [100 sets of] Whippings: Berachot 7a
Repentance of an individual Causes Forgiveness for the World: Yoma 86b
Repentance Extends Life: Yoma 86b
Repentance is Preferable to the punishment of the Wicked: Berachot 10a
Repentance Turns intentional sin to errant sin, and errant sin into merit: Yoma 86b
Repentance eradicating earlier sins, with true regret: Kiddushin 40b
Having a blessing on the power of Repentance following the blessing on wisdom in the Amidah: Megillah 17b
Why the Blessing on Health doesn't immediately follow the blessing on the power of Repentance, in the Amidah: Megillah 17b
If a person who is liable for Divine Ex-communication repents, the Heavenly Court forgives him: Makkot 13b-14a
Gd desires offerings even from people who have made themselves like animals: Eruvin 69b Prohibition against abusing someone by reminding him of his pre-repentance sins: Bava Metzia 58b
Repentance without successfully correcting the wrong: Bava Metzia 62a
Posthumous repentance: Gittin 57a
Admission of Sin ["Viduy"] in Prayer
Expressing Admission of Sin: Yoma 86b
Language of Admission of Sin: Yoma 87b
Times to Admit Sin in Prayer on Yom Kippur: Yoma 87b; Pesachim 3a; Megillah 20b; Niddah 8b
Need for continual Admission of Sin: Yoma 86b
Various prayers for Admission of Sin: Berachot 17a, Yoma 87b
Public gatherings on Fast Days, for self-examination: Megillah 30b
Avoiding [public] admission of sin, as it shows a certain brazenness: Sotah 7b
Repentance for Interpersonal Sin
The Need for people to be willing to bend for others [Ma'avir Al Midosav]: Rosh HaShanah 17a; Yoma 87b; Megillah 28a
Requesting forgiveness from Another: Yoma 87a, 87b
Forgiving another person: Yoma 87b
Forgiving others nightly, before going to sleep, earns long life: Megillah 28a
Repentance for Specific Transgressions
Transgressions for which there is NO correction: Berachot 26a; Chagigah 9a-b
Causing the community to sin: Yoma 87a Desecrating Gd's reputation: Yoma 86a
Definition of Disgrace of Gd's reputation: Yoma 86a
For interpersonal transgressions: Yoma 85b, 87a
For making another person feel low: Yoma 85b
For making light of the Torah or its Scholars: Yoma 85b
For breaking the covenant of circumcision: Yoma 85b
For Taking Gd's Name in vain: Yoma 86a
For Theft: Bava Metzia 37a-b, 62a
For missing the chance to fulfill a commandment: Zevachim 5b, 7a-b
