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If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
Jonathan Sacks
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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.
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Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
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