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Continual Confession
From: The New York Jewish Week
Date: 20080321
Author:Wolpe, David
Most Jews believe that Judaism encourages confession once a year on Yom Kippur. They are unaware of the confessional that is part of the daily service.
Why must we confess our sins so often? Do we learn nothing? In his autobiographical novel "The Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler writes of his religious education in England: "When I was young I used to think the Prayer Book was wrong in requiring us to say the General Confession twice a week from childhood to old age, without making provision for our not being quite such great sinners at 70 as we had been at 7; granted that we should go to the ...
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