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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 2001
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Message on the Observance of Yom Kippur, 5762,
September 26, 2001
The kindness of the Lord has not ended,
His mercies are not spent.
Lamentations 3:22
Yom Kippur is a day of holy awe—and a day of awesome hope. It is the day, Judaism teaches, on which God judges the world—and the day when humanity rediscovers the power of God’s love and forgiveness. The Jewish tradition holds that all humans sin, but that atonement, prayer, and charity can avert God’s decree.
This is a year in which we were stunned by humanity’s capacity for cruelty and violence. It is a year in which we were astonished by humanity’s capacity for compassion and self-sacrifice. We have endured great loss. We have suffered great wrong.
May God bring peace to all who mourn. May people of Jewish faith and heritage in this country and around the world be inscribed and sealed for a good year in the book of life. And may we be blessed with the strength and patience to pursue justice and defeat evil.
George W. Bush
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Chicago: George W. Bush, "Message on the Observance of Yom Kippur, 5762, September 26, 2001," Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 2001 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, September 28, 2001 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001), 37:1382-1383 1383. Original Sources, accessed April 18, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EVDSC3FWVPTQPU.
MLA: Bush, George W. "Message on the Observance of Yom Kippur, 5762, September 26, 2001." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 2001, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, September 28, 2001 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001), 37:1382-1383, page 1383. Original Sources. 18 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EVDSC3FWVPTQPU.
Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Message on the Observance of Yom Kippur, 5762, September 26, 2001' in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 2001. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, September 28, 2001 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001), 37:1382-1383, pp.1383. Original Sources, retrieved 18 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8EVDSC3FWVPTQPU.
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