And from here, the person will be ashamed to sin again; for behold, the King, Himself, washes the dirt of his clothes. When one considers following this middah of the Borei Olam, a very human response comes crashing into his or her consciousness: “He made the mess. A rebbi can clean up the mess in a talmid’s thinking or the erroneous way he learned the Gemara. However, make sure that you aren’t using this response simply as a cover for the inappropriate response. Where can you help clean up other people’s messes?