Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Day of Atonement
The day of atonement is a fascinating moment in the calendar and judaism, where people essentially say sorry to each other. And you are given license, encouragement, structure to do something which would be mightily hard if you were left to do it on your own. You know, we're very suspicious of ritual in the non believing world. We think that there shouldn't really be rituals, that that private life should have its own rhythms. The idea is you should do all this on your own in private ar but i'm coming round to the view that. Eu, nhowh, that's nice in theory. The problem is we'll never get round to it.
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