Shabbat shalom – Matters of Interpretation

Shabbat shalom

Rabbi Jacob said “Better one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all the life of the world-to-come; and better one hour of serenity in the world-to-come than all the life of this world.”
From “Chapters of the Fathers” in Gates of Prayer, Chaim Stern, ed. (New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1975), 24.

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Gates of Prayer, Quotations, the world to come

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