“The first of the "request" prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.”

— Jonathan Sacks

Source: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (4th ed 2006), p.XVII

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British rabbi 1948

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