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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.Abraham Joshua Heschel