Posted on 10/08/2008 9:11:25 AM PDT by Alouette
Its observers abstain from food, sex, baths and wearing leather for 26 hours, casting away distractions that may cloud their mission: Getting closer to God.
Jews will celebrate Yom Kippur on Wednesday and Thursday this year.
Taking place 10 days after the start of Rosh Hashanah, the start of the new Jewish year, "Yom Kippur is the holiest of days on the Jewish calendar," said Kim Gonzalez, teen director and Jewish educator at the Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham.
The holiday is both somber and joyful, a bittersweet reflection on one's good and bad deeds in the past year. Its Hebrew meaning, "day of atonement," is taken literally - from the beginning of Rosh Hashanah until the start of Yom Kippur is a 10-day period of self examination, forgiveness and releasing grudges.
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Blessed Yom Kippur to all my Jewish Freepers!
OMG, no food or sex? What is Bill Clinton going to do!!!
Have an easy fast, Alouette and all my Freep Friends. Pray for McCain/Palin.
“OMG, no food or sex? What is Bill Clinton going to do!!!”
I realize that Hillary is .0005% Jewish, but it doesn’t apply to Bill.
This sabbath of Sabbaths, as you pray and atone, may you be blessed with peace and happiness!
The last trump of Yom Teruah is on the Yom Kippurshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach AdonaiNAsbU 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,Trumpet is GSN - 4536.
with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.Review Leviticus 25:9 where it(GSN - 4538) is used in the LXX as a replacement for the word shofar HSN - 7782.
NAsbU Leviticus 25:9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth daySo the trump that Paul is speaking just might be a shofar (last trump) on the day of atonement.
of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.Look up !
Abstaining from food or sex, I get. What’s up with baths or leather?
Have an easy fast, my friends, and may you be inscribed in the book of Life for the coming year!
Because of medical stuff, I unfortunately can’t do a no-liquid fast, but I do what I can.
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