Get rid of the old leaven of sin so that you may be a new batch of dough — as you really are. – Bible, ICorinthians 5:7

As for the bitter herbs…. To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering… – Julia Neuberger, On Being Jewish, 1995

Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M

…proclaim liberty through all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof… – Bible, Leviticus 25:10