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ID:395
If a man says: I will sin and the Day of Atonement will atone for me, then that Day will not atone for him.

  - Yoma 8:9Topics: holidays sin and repentance
ID:396
The Day of Atonement atones not for sins of man against man, until the sinner makes his peace with his victim.

  - Talmud, YomaTopics: holidays peace sin and repentance
ID:397
Even if all other festivals vanish, not so the Day of Atonement.

  - SafraTopics: holidays sin and repentance
ID:398
On the Day of Atonement the Israelites are as ministering angels.

  - Pirqe Derabbi EliezerTopics: holidays sin and repentance
ID:548
Every Jew should think of himself as having come out of Egypt. [Passover/Pesach]

  - Talmud, PessachimTopics: holidays
ID:2356
Moses ordained that Jews be addressed each holiday on the subject of that holiday, and he said to Israel: if you do this, it will be as if you established God's sovereignty.

  - Midrash Abkir, Yalkut Shimoni #408Topics: holidays education
ID:2534
Thou hast loved us, taken pleasure in us, and exalted us above all tongues. Thou hast sanctified us by Thy commandments, brought us near to Thy service, and called us by Thy great and holy Name.

  - Prayer for FestivalsTopics: holidays Israel
ID:2564
The Holy One will turn the Ninth of Ab into joy...and will Himself build Jerusalem and gather therein the exiles of Israel.

  - Midrash Zuta, EikaTopics: Jerusalem holidays Israel
ID:2581
Every Jew must either give or take charity for Passover.

  - Shalom AleichemTopics: holidays charity
ID:1737
When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple's destruction! [Tisha B'Av]

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: holidays history Israel home and family
ID:2629
The Sabbath and holidays are the primary reason for Jewish endurance and glory.

  - Judah HaleviTopics: holidays Shabbat
ID:2630
The Sabbaths are for rest and the festivals for joy, not for fasting and weeping and crying.

  - MaimonidesTopics: holidays Shabbat
ID:2631
To eat and drink on a festival in the company of your family without providing for the poor and distressed, is not 'the joy of the commandment' but the joy of your stomach. It is a disgrace.

  - MaimonidesTopics: food and drink holidays charity Shabbat home and family sin and repentance
ID:2632
The river of life...flows from birth toward death. Day follows day with wearisome monotony. Only the holidays twine themselves together to form the circle of the year. Only through the holidays does life experience the eternity of the river that returns to its source. Then life becomes eternal.

  - Franz RosenzweigTopics: holidays death life
ID:2461
In Ne'ilah [the closing prayer] of Yom Kippur, what did he [the Cohen] say? 'And Hashem will bless you from Zion and you will see the good of Jerusalem all of the days of your life.'

  - Talmud, Sotah 40aTopics: Jerusalem holidays prayer
ID:2460
Jerusalem is like a city that people are friendly together; a city in which all [the people of] Israel are friends when the tribes ascend there for the pilgrimage.

  - Talmud Yerushalmi, Hagiga 3Topics: Jerusalem holidays
ID:2457
There were no days as glorious for the people of Israel as the fifteenth of Av [the Hebrew Month] and as Yom Kippur, when the daughters of Jerusalem would come outside with borrowed white garments and dance in the vineyards.

  - Talmud, Ta'anit 26bTopics: Jerusalem holidays
ID:547
Abhor not an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land! [Passover/Pesach]

  - Deuteronomy (Devarim) 23:8Topics: holidays justice and law Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:394
For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you shall be clean before the Lord. [Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur]

  - Leviticus (Vayikra) 16:30Topics: holidays sin and repentance Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:846
Who lodges a scholar in his home is as one offering first-fruits [Shavuot] in the Temple.

  - Leviticus (Vayikra) R.Topics: holidays hospitality education home and family
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