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Yom Kippur

By the Numbers
12 Facts About the Yom Kippur War

While causing Israel many losses, the battle also highlights how “the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
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Your Questions
Why the Break Fast?

The Freeman Files
Yom Kippur Without Guilt

How about someone who abandoned a religious lifestyle because she was abused by the authority figures of that system?
Voices
Zaidy’s Yom Kippur

It’s an old voice, but powerful and steady. It is my zaidy (grandfather) saying the mourner’s kaddish for his father, whose yahrtzeit is on Yom Kippur.
The Yom Kippur Drunk

The scandalized crowd was about to eject the man from the synagogue, when the Rebbe turned from the wall and said: "Let him be. For us, Yom Kippur is just beginning, but for him, it's already Simchat Torah."
It is written (Psalms 119:98): "From my foes have You given me wisdom." From the negative tendencies a person detects in his natural traits, he can become wise and know how to handle the correction of these traits, and how to subordinate his powers in the service of G-d.
— Hayom Yom, Nissan 8
Print Magazine

Rosh Hashanah is the beginning—not only of this new year, but of all years previous.

How could that be?

Because on that day you are empowered to reach back into time and adjust the meaning of all that has passed.

True, He is the Author. But He has assigned us as editors. We adapt the storyline, transform the plot.

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