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The very concept of repentance and atonement has made the Jewish outlook on life one of cheerfulness and confidence.

— Philip Birnbaum Festival Prayer Book: Yom Kippur (1960)

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The diversified authorship of the Prayerbook, embracing prophets and psalmists, legalists and poets, proclaims that all Israel has a share in its making.

Festival Prayer Book: Pesah (1971)

The moon, appearing every month in several phases, is symbolic of the Jewish people whose history has assumed a variety of phases. Like the moon, they reappear aftern being eclipsed.

Daily Prayer Book (1949)

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