Jonathan Sacks Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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.

• The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Firsts, Structure

  Jonathan Sacks, United Synagogue, The (2011). “Hebrew Daily Prayer Book”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

• Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Queens, Prayer, Blessing

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

• Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Perspective, Three

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

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