That day is about people putting things right with God through prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness for any sins. Instead of work or ...

(Mass Appeal) - We're in the throes of the Jewish High Holiday season with Rosh Hashannah happening last week and Yom Kippur beginning this Friday evening. Rabbi Yakov Wolff, Outreach Director at ...

Striking the chest is “a form of dancing one’s prayer,” Milgram said ... or asking forgiveness, that beats through the Yom Kippur liturgy. The Viddui, she said, is written in the ...

Those that have not are in many cases limiting attendance to members only, making in-person prayer inaccessible ... about the forgiveness and repentance themes of Yom Kippur.

It is marked at the start by the blowing of the shofar (a ram’s horn trumpet) and signalling the start of the ten days of penitence, prayer and introspection culminating in Yom Kippur.

That day is about people putting things right with God through prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness for any sins. Instead of work or ...