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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.
Just as it is a mitzvah to fast on Yom Kippur, it may also be a mitzvah to eat or drink on Yom Kippur to safeguard a person's health. [78] In such situations, though, it is preferable (if the medical situation allows for it) to consume only small amounts of food or drink at a time.
This year, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Sunday, September 24, 2023 and ends at nightfall on Monday, September 25, 2023. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers are found in a special prayer book ...
Observant Jews will fast throughout Yom Kippur and many attend synagogue for most of the day. There are five prayer services, one in the evening (sometimes known as "Kol Nidre" from one of the main prayers) and four consecutively on the day. On Yom Kippur day, Ne'ilah, a prayer only recited on this day, is said. It symbolizes the closing of the ...
When is Yom Kippur 2023? How long does Yom Kippur last? Yom Kippur begins several minutes before sunset on Friday, Oct. 11 , 2024, and concludes at nightfall on Saturday, Oct. 12th, 2024.
Those days' first Lesson (liturgical reading) focuses on the Old Covenant’s Day of Atonement and the fast of the seventh month (Lev. 23, 26-32). [23] Assuming an apostolic practice of observing Yom Kippur, a small number of evangelical Christians observe it today.
The reason the fasts of the Tenth of Tevet and Yom Kippur must be observed on the actual day on which they occur is because of the phrase "the very day" (עצם היום הזה) is used about both of them, in Ezekiel 24:2 [16] about the Tenth of Tevet, and similarly for Yom Kippur in Leviticus 23:28. [17]
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