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The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

~David Novak

Topics: Anniversary Children Daily Death Deceased Her His Important Important Part Jewish Most Mourning Parent Part Process Recite Regularly Synagogue The Most Important Then Thereafter Tradition Which Year

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I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

~David Novak

Topics: Came First Jewish New New York Relations Seminary Studying Theological While York

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Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

~David Novak

Topics: Christian Copy Doctrine Does Each Even First Her His Human Humans Inevitably Mean Only Original Original Sin Own Pair Person Punished Rather Responsible Seem Sin Sins

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The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

~David Novak

Topics: Been Call Choose Chosen Elected Given God Greatest Itself Jewish Known Means Ourselves People Presents Revelation Torah Tradition Truth Why World

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Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

~David Novak

Topics: Constant Development Religious Renewed State Traditions

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The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

~David Novak

Topics: Both Consider Law Natural Negative Part Positive Privacy Right Themselves Those Tradition Who

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Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

~David Novak

Topics: Anything Autonomous Every Independent Individual Multiple Necessarily Person Range Really Relations Relative Sense Therefore Truly

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To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

~David Novak

Topics: Any Being Body Figure Independent Individual Like Line Outside Point View Viewing

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Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

~David Novak

Topics: Alone Am Autonomy Core Creator Foundational Fundamental Instead Means Most My Own Own Practical Sense Which I Am I Am Alone

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Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

~David Novak

Topics: Acquisition Been Citizenship Destruction Experiences Founding Holocaust Individual Israel Jews Largely Modernity Momentous One-Third Secular Shaped State Three

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Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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