Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 8 September 1972. The spiritual stocktaking traditionally encouraged at this period of the year stresses the social aspect. It is the plural we who have “sinned before Thee.” Not that individual self-scrutiny is unimportant, but it is by its very nature a private matter between a man and his Maker….
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