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The prayer services also include private and public confessions of sins , [20] and a unique prayer dedicated to the special Yom Kippur avodah (service) of the Kohen Gadol (high priest) in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. [102] The Yom Kippur prayer services include additional poems and petitions for forgiveness .
The first service of Yom Kippur actually takes place just before the holiday starts at sundown, on the evening of Yom Kippur, or Erev Yom Kippur. This Yom Kippur evening service is called Kol Nidrei .
It is believed that Kol Nidrei was added to the liturgy of Yom Kippur, ten days after Rosh Hashana, because that service is much more solemn, because Yom Kippur is entirely attuned to the theme of repentance and remorse, because (despite the great importance of Rosh Hashana) Yom Kippur services are better attended, and perhaps because Yom ...
The title of this episode refers to a conversation that the President has with his staff towards the end of the episode. In it, he tells his staff that at a White House dinner, someone told him that on Yom Kippur Jews ask God for forgiveness, but "on the day before" Yom Kippur, called Erev Yom Kippur, Jews ask forgiveness from one another. [7]
The holiday known as Rosh Hashanah has ended, and people of the Jewish faith are in the midst of a time period referred to as "10 Days of Awe.". Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, which ...
Yom Kippur, which falls on September 24-25 in 2023, is the last of the High Holidays and is widely considered to be the most important.
Yom Kippur (Hebrew: יום כפור, romanized: yom kippūr, lit. 'Day of Atonement') is the holiest day of the Jewish year. The Hebrew Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim "Day of the Atonement/s". In the Hebrew calendar, the ninth day of Tishrei is known as Erev Yom Kippur (Yom Kippur eve). Yom Kippur itself begins around sunset on that day and ...
Yom Kippur: 14 Sep to 14 Oct Sukkot (first of seven days) 19 Sep to 19 Oct Shemini Atzeret: 26 Sep to 26 Oct Simchat Torah: 27 Sep to 27 Oct Yom HaAliyah (school observance) 11 Oct to 10 Nov Hanukkah (first of eight days) 28 Nov to 27 Dec Tu Bishvat: 15 Jan to 14 Feb Purim: 24 Feb to 26 Mar Shushan Purim: 25 Feb to 27 Mar Yom HaAliyah: 21 Mar ...