Jonathan Sacks Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Prayer, Book, Self

  "Democratised Holiness: What Yom Kippur Teaches Us About Moral Responsibility". www.abc.net.au. October 3, 2014.

• Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, "What happened?" but rather, "How then shall I live?" And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Book, Answers, Moses

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

• Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Book, Writing

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