Musar for Rosh Hashanah 33:14
(רבא אמר) כל המעביר על מדותיו מעבירין לו על כל פשעיו שנאמר נושא עון ועובר על פשע למי נושא עון למי שעובר על פשע
How does He do? - R'Eliezer<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Read with MSM. R. Eleazar].');"><sup>25</sup></span> says: He presses down [the scale of merit], as it says, He will again have compassion on us, he will press down our iniquities.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., press down the scale of merit against our iniquities, Micah VII, 19.');"><sup>26</sup></span> R'Jose B'Hanina says: [He does so] by raising [the scale of iniquities], as it says, Raising<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.V. 'that pardoneth'.');"><sup>27</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
This is obvious, for the Holy One, blessed be He, repays measure for measure (Sanhedrin 90a). Thus he who has mercy and does kindness with others, will also be shown mercy when he is judged and pardoned of his sins with kindliness. For such pardoning is justice, since it corresponds measure for measure to his practice. This is what our sages, of blessed memory, taught: "who is forgiven iniquity? he who overlooks transgression [committed against himself]" (Rosh Hashana 17a).
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Mesilat Yesharim
BEARING INSULTS: The second division of humility is in bearing insults. Behold, our sages, of blessed memory, explicitly said: "Who is forgiven iniquity? He who overlooks transgression" (Rosh Hashana 17b).
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