The operation's name corresponds to the Hebrew name for the High Holiday season during which the operation was carried out.
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Famous quotes containing the words operation, days and/or penitence:
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus 20:12, one of the Ten Commandments.
“Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)