So towards my setup, I think Chris Claremont, a kibbutzing Jew who is the guy most likely responsible for most of what the general public thinks of when they think of X-Men characterizations, wrote Wolverine with a very Jewish sense of morality. Now understand, Wolverine does objectively terrible things which are objectively unforgivable by Jewish standards. But Wolverine’s core concept is that not only does believe he will someday be able to stop doing those things, he wants to stop doing them. He punishes himself and feels true remorse for the awful things he does. Of course this is in contrast to characters he hates like Punisher and Sabertooth who do similarly awful things. For Frank he hates himself for doing the things, but feels no remorse and has no intention to stop. And Victor of course enjoys the awful things. So what Logan hates in those two men is that they feel neither remorse nor any compulsion to try to be better. This trait in Logan has reminded me of what I perceive as one of the most important throughlines in Judaism, no one keeps all the mitzvot, and what they don’t keep today they can only try to do tomorrow.
While I was thinking about Logan being written by a Jewish writer as someone down on himself for being a bad man, but also someone who is constantly trying to be a better man tomorrow, I came upon a question of halacha. Logan’s most grevious sin is of course murder. Now usually murder is unforgivable because you cannot seek forgiveness from the dead. Thinking about this I realized Wolverine goes to the afterlife all the damn time. So there’s is the possibility he could seek out his victims to ask them for forgiveness. Buuuut, that leads us to restitution. Now given that it’s comics and death is a revolving door, if Wolverine were to go and find a way to resurrect all his victims and then seek clemency, would he be forgiven their initial murders?
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