Atonement in Judaism is the process of causing a transgression to be forgiven or pardoned.
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“What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)