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Subject:
Dust and Yom Kippur
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Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
They were the footprints ... of a gigantic hound!
Date:
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:34:21 -0400
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Ken Follett wrote:

> We walked around outside the crowded area, blocks East of GZ, and looked
> at the gray dust. The dust cloud, filed with office papers, flowed down
> the canyons of lower Manhattan and deposited itself on windows and
> ledges and rooftops. I'm curious if the dust contains biological
> material, if human bodies were not pulverized along with the concrete.

"Even now the air we breathe is thick with the dust of our martyrs.
Do men and women know that they breathe it still?"

      - prayerbook at yesterday's Yom Kippur afternoon service
         ("Gates of Repentance", published in 1978 by the Central
         Conference of American Rabbis, p. 435.)

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com
Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106

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