The Days of Awe
Hugh Nissenson
2005
“All vows and oaths we take, all promises and obligations, we make to God between this Yom Kippur and the next we hereby publicly retract in the event that we should forget them, and hereby declare our intention to be absolved of them.”
Gobbledegook, Artie said to himself. The words are gobbledegook. They survived because they got attached to a…
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