Yom Kippur Readings Quotes

“Life is precious; we must not defer to tomorrow the love we can give or receive today. All the love that has been given to you is yours, yours to keep, yours to grow, yours to share fully with others, so that it lives forever. Energy does not die in this universe. Neither does love.”
― Dov Peretz Elkins, Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation

“Memory is ours as long as we live. Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.”
― Dov Peretz Elkins, Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation

“Something as simple as an act of kindness, a compliment, a helping hand to a fellow human being, becomes a way of choosing life.”
― Dov Peretz Elkins, Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein”
― Dov Peretz Elkins, Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation

“Where is God? I used to take some comfort from the image of cable cars in San Francisco. What enables those cable cars to move up and down the steep hills of San Francisco? There are powerful cables that run underneath these ups and downs. When the cable car wants to move, it latches on to the cable, which pulls it up or down the hills. If you look down into the opening that runs down the middle of all these streets, you will see that, underneath, the cable is always running. God is the force of life that runs through our lives, day in and day out—in the inexplicable force that gives a person the simple, heroic courage to open the door.”
― Dov Peretz Elkins, Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation