 | Missions to Jews - 1866 - 304 pages
...is inscribed, and on the first Day of Atonement it is sealed and determined how many shall pass by and how many shall be born ; who shall live and who shall die ; who shall finish his allotted term and who not ; who is to perish by fire and who by water ; who by the sword... | |
 | Paul Isaac Hershon - Bible - 1883 - 592 pages
...their sentence is inscribed. On the first day of the year it is inscribed, and on the Day of Atonement it is sealed : how many shall pass away, and how many shall be called into existence; who shall live, and who shall die ; who at his appointed time, and who before... | |
 | Central Conference of American Rabbis - Jews - 1928 - 630 pages
...uvyom Zom Kippur yehosemum — On the first day of the year it is inscribed and on the day of Atonement it is sealed: How many shall pass away and how many shall be born, etc." What to us seem accidents are here presented as inscrutable decrees of the wise Ruler of men.... | |
 | Chaim Shapiro - History - 1989 - 562 pages
...broke forth: "On the first day of the year it is inscribed, and on the Day of Atonement the decree is sealed, how many shall pass away and how many shall be born; who shall live and who shall die; who at the measure of man's days and who before it; who shall perish by fire and who by water, who by sword... | |
 | Sarah M. Schleimer - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - 1994 - 258 pages
...moving and solemn U'nesaneh tokef, the prayer had never seemed so meaningful, or so fearful, before. "...On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed, how many shall pass on and how many shall be born. Who shall live and who shall die. ..who will remain tranquil and who... | |
 | Arye Forta - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 166 pages
...Rosh Hashanah service, shows the kind of decisions Jews believe that God makes on this day. '. . . how many shall pass away and how many shall be born, who shall live and who shall die . . . who shall be at peace and who shall be harassed, who shall be poor and who shall be rich, who shall be humbled... | |
 | Betty Jean Lifton - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 436 pages
...yarmulke on his head, completely absorbed, as if in meditation. No one stirred as the cantor sang out: On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, And on Yom Kippur...many shall be born. Who shall live and who shall die . year in Jerusalem!" — as had generations before them — he did not succeed in alleviating his... | |
 | Susi Bradfield, John Burns - Berlin (Germany) - 1998 - 268 pages
...infinitely more. I felt almost as if I did not have the right to be there to share their suffering. How many shall pass away, and how many shall be born, who shall live, and who shall die, who at the measure of man's days, and who before it... I felt very keenly that I had been spared for a... | |
 | Leo Trepp - History - 2001 - 586 pages
...determine the limit to every creature's life, and set down its destiny. On Rosh Hashanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed: how many shall pass away...born; who shall live and who shall die . . . who shall have ease and who shall be afflicted, . . . But repentance, and prayer, and works of goodness are the... | |
 | Nicholas de Lange - Religion - 2000 - 276 pages
...being, and writing down their decreed sentence. On Rosh Ha-Shanah it is inscribed, and on the fast of Yom Kippur it is sealed: how many shall pass away and how many shall be created; who shall live and who shall die, who at his appointed time, and who before it, who by fire... | |
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... who by hunger and who by thirst; who by earthquake and who by plague, who by strangling and who by stoning; who shall... 
