Sentences with phrase «wholehearted repentance»

If, as seems implied by his conclusion, Rabbi Novak prays for the wholehearted repentance of murderers like Osama bin Laden, or of Yasir Arafat, I wonder how he could ask God daily for the immediate destruction of the terribly wicked.

In fact, every rabbi cited by my Jewish correspondents — from Rabbi Meir of the Mishnah, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Moses Cordevero — recited these blessings, which ask God to return most human beings to Him in wholehearted repentance, but also to «uproot, smash, cast down» the wantonly sinful.