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“Reaping what you sow is very different, and yet, it is the only thing that can be counted on ... that careful application of self to tasks, continuing to learn from the world and digging deep to learn more about the self, the investment of self in ways of being and doing, bringing about deep and fundamental accomplishments and changes.”

Care Change Learning Investment Accomplishment Atonement Revelation Reap What You Sow Yom Kippur

Author:Shellen Lubin

“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we have benefitted and continue to benefit from unearned privilege (as well as how we have been denied and disrespected, even in ways that we have perceived as privilege, or as our right). We all must be willing to look, to acknowledge, to own the complex reality which is our history, our country, our lives. It is not enough to go to a house of prayer and ask God for forgiveness. It is not enough that we forgive each other, not enough to forgive ourselves. We must extend effort to repair damage in which we have participated and/or from which we have received benefit... We must do differently moving forward.”

America Growth Change Privilege Heal Complexity Challenge Atonement Reap What You Sow Yom Kippur

Author:Shellen Lubin

“Do you know,” he asked, “that the most common word in our Yom Kippur prayers doesn't relate to forgiveness, or expiation, but remembrance?”

Prayer Sin Forgiveness Memory Remembrance Jewish Jewish Tradition Yom Kippur

Book:The Forgotten

Source: The Forgotten

“I could see Mount Sodom beyond the distant shores, where the goat had been chosen as a sacrifice to redeem the wicked tribe.”

Religion Sacrifice Redemption Judaism Atonement Scapegoat Black Sheep Scapegoating Yom Kippur Sodom

Book:Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays

Source: Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays

“I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist.”

Atheist Agnostic Christmas Tree Yom Kippur Belives

Book:Isla and the Happily Ever After

Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After

“You really can't go wrong with the food at any Jewish holiday. Well, with the exception of Passover, because matzah is terrible and eight days of no carbs but matzah and potatoes can have you crying for pizza by the end. But think bagels and lox to break the Yom Kippur fast. All sorts of exotic fruits on Tu B'Shevat. Brisket and tzimmes and noodle kugel for pretty much any occasion. And that's only the Ashkenazi food; I'd been treated to Sephardic and Mizrahi food occasionally at friends' houses growing up, and I remembered fish cooked in spicy tomato sauce, tangines with chickpeas and saffron, Yemenite braided bread with whole eggs hidden in the twists. But Hanukkah food? Because Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of the oil, it's basically a mitzvah to eat fried foods for the holiday. And doing a good deed by eating French fries or doughnuts is the absolute best way to do a good deed.”

Oil Hebrew Holidays Hanukkah Jewish Food Yom Kippur Passover Fried Foods

Book:Love You a Latke

Source: Love You a Latke

“We cannot do things differently, we cannot carve out different ways of relating to others, until we can take responsibility for what we have done and those we have injured in the process.”

Change Hurt Responsibility Harm Injury Ownership Atonement Reap What You Sow Yom Kippur

Author:Shellen Lubin

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.”

Males Yom Kippur

Author:Howard Jacobson

“I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.”

People Thinking Knows Should Hands Fall Lines Streets Fashion Importance Worn Synagogue High Fashion Yom Kippur

Author:Rachel Zoe

“It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.”

Needs Feels War Sells Oil Hinges Boycott Yom Kippur

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.”

Years Two Theater Seven Saint Ruins Ninety Yom Kippur

Author:Brendan Behan

“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”

Book Self Prayer Sin Written Praying Holy Judgment Introspection Festivals Fasting Atonement Book Of Life Yom Kippur

Author:Jonathan Sacks