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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2021-07-06

"Most national literatures, ancient and modern, record a people's triumphs. Jewish literature records our failures, moral and spiritual. No people has been so laceratingly honest in charting its shortcomings. In Tanakh there is no one without sin.

"Believing as we do that even the greatest are merely human, we also know that even the merely human - us - can also be great. And greatness begins in the humility of recognising our failings and faults."

-- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ([twitter.com profile] rabbisacks), 2020-09-25 ( start of thread)

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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 01:24pm on 2021-07-06
I would hope that Canada - as I know it now - is implementing that lesson in our own retellings of our history from now on. There are those here who would rather we not do that, and I consider them mistaken.
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posted by [personal profile] sabotabby at 12:50am on 2021-07-07
Oh. I love this.
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