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Holiday Heartburn


By David Suissa

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/holiday_heartburn_20081001/

"Not eating is not suffering," he said, "it's elevating ourselves to a state of transcendence. The fast, on Yom Kippur, reminds us how little material we really need; that we can do with less meat, with less bread, with less of everything."

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