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Immanuel Jakobovits est le grand-rabbin des United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth de 1967 à 1991. Il est auparavant grand-rabbin d'Irlande, puis rabbin de la Fifth Avenue Synagogue de New York. Il est le premier grand-rabbin à la Chambre des lords en 1988 et devient le baron Jakobovits. Il est un spécialiste de la bioéthique et la loi juive . En 1991, il reçoit le prix Templeton. Il est le gendre du rabbin Élie Munk. Son épouse est Lady Amélie Jakobovits. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. février 1921 – 31. octobre 1999
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“Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless it registers the overall message each part of our prayers is meant to convey.”

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Immanuel Jakobovits

Introduction, p. xiii.
The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990

“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”

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Foreword, p. ix to "Following the Synagogue Service" by Jeffrey Cohen, Gnesia Publications, 1997, .

“Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.”

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Source: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990, p. 17.

“In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.”

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Source: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990, p. 12.

“Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.”

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The Jewish Idea of Prayer, p. xvi.
The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990

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