"The Book of Jonah, which we read this afternoon, brightened the Day of Atonement for me in my earlier years. It sustained me through what was, in the time sense of a child, the interminable Yom Kippur service. (2/x)

"I would turn from the pages which recited the long litany of our sins, many of which I did not understand and the rest of which I could not visualize being committed by our comfortable and respectable middle-class congregants; I would turn eagerly to the Book of Jonah. (3/x)