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In Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption, a certain topology articulates the question of forgiveness qua non-originary. The distribution that punctuates, organizes, and fabricates a whole series of “systematic” relations in The Star is that of creation, revelation and redemption as relational and temporal modes determining the ways in which man finds himself taken up in specific relations with God, the world, and other men. In these networks fabricated by The Star, the question is: Is forgiveness a human affair or a divine favor? Is it practicable in the community, or is it a matter of intersubjectivity? The themes of time, love, forgiveness and otherness are central to this reflection.