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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. -- Laura Schlessinger
As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest. -- Meir Soloveichik
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. -- Jonathan Sacks
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish. -- Janet Suzman
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. -- Lionel Blue
I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out. -- Ryan Reynolds
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. -- Jonathan Sacks
Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die. -- Howard Zinn
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? -- Maximilien Robespierre

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