Definition and meaning of Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah

Yom Kippur, also called the Day of Atonement, is the most important Jewish holiday and is a day of fasting to atone for sins. Rosh Hashanah is the feast of the Jewish New Year which occurs in September or October each year, eight days before Yom Kippur. The eight days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are special days of penance.

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Definition and meaning of Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah

Yom Kippur, also called the Day of Atonement, is the most important Jewish holiday and is a day of fasting to atone for sins. Rosh Hashanah is the feast of the Jewish New Year which occurs in September or October each year, eight days before Yom Kippur. The eight days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are special days of penance.

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Yom Kippur (יום כיפור yom kippūr) is the Jewish holiday of the Day of Atonement. It falls on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishri. The Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim (Hebrew, "Day of the Atonements"). It is one of the Yamim Noraim (Hebrew, "Days of Awe"). The day is commemorated with a 25-hour fast and intensive prayer. It is considered the holiest day of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur - Date. In the Hebrew calendar Yom Kippur begins at nightfall starting the ten ...

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Yom Kippur - General observances. Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of repentance, considered to be the holiest and most solemn day of the year. Its central theme is atonement and reconciliation. Eating, drinking, washing, cosmetics, wearing leather shoes, and conjugal relations are prohibited (Mishnah tractate Yoma 8:1). Fasting - total abstention from all food and drink - usually begins a half an hour before sundown (called "tosefet Yom Kippur", the "addition" of fasting a bit of the previous day is required by Jewish law), a ...

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On October 16th, 1973, as part of the political strategy that included the Yom Kippur War, OAPEC cut production of oil, and placed an embargo on shipments of crude oil to the West, with the United States and the Netherlands specifically targeted. Also imposed was a boycott of Israel, and price increases. Since oil demand falls little with price rises, prices had to rise dramatically to reduce demand to the new, lower, level of supply. Anticipating this, the market price for oil immediately rose substantially. A world financial system already ...

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Yom Kippur - Forgiveness and vidduy. According to the Talmud, God opens three books on the first day of the year; one for the thoroughly wicked, another for the thoroughly pious, and the third for the large intermediate class. The fate of the thoroughly wicked and the thoroughly pious is determined on the spot; the destiny of the intermediate class is suspended until Yom Kippur, when the fate of everyone is sealed. The liturgical piece Unetanneh Tokef (attributed to Rabbi Amnon of Mainz) states: ...

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The Christian Day of Atonement is based on the English translation of the the Jewish Holyday Yom Kippur. The Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim (Hebrew, "Day of the Atonements"). The day is commemorated with a 25-hour fast by Jews, but normally a 24 hour fast by Christians who observe it. While not observed by the mainstream of Christianity, the small Christian groups (mostly those with origins in the old Worldwide Church of Go ...

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Before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, communal prayers centered around the korbanot ("sacrificial offerings") brought by the kohanim ("Jewish priests") in the Holy Temple. The all-day Yom Kippur service, in fact, was an event in which the congregation observed the movements of the kohen gadol ("Jewish high priest") as he offered the day's sacrifices, and prayed for his success. The destructions of Solomon's Temple, and later the Second Temple and the dispersion of the Jews into the Jewish diaspora, ...

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Yom Kippur

(Hebrew, "day of atonement")

The most solemn day of the Jewish year (10 Tishri), which ends the ten-day period of repentance that Rosh Hashanah begins. Virtually the entire day is spent in the synagogue petitioning God to pardon sins and bestow life for the coming year. No food or drink is consumed from sundown to sundown

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Towards the end and immediately after World War II, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) grew increasingly influential to the post-Holocaust Soviet Jewry, and was accepted as its representative in the West. As its activities sometimes contradicted official Soviet policies (see Black Book), it became a nuisance to Stalin's absolute power. The CPSU Central Committee auditing commission concluded that instead of focusing its attention on the "struggle against forces of international reaction", the JAC continued the line of the Bund — a dan ...

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A contract whereby an insurer promises to pay the insured a sum of money or some other benefit upon the happening of one or more uncertain events in exchange for the payment of a premium. There must be uncertainty as to whether the relevant event(s) may happen at all or, if they will occur (e.g. death) as to their timing.

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In 1961, Jennings became, with Baden Langton, the first anchors of a Canadian private national news program. The two were the first coanchors of CTV National News. The program had varying anchor teams in its first years, although Jennings was the sole constant. He was with the program until 1964. During his years at CTV, he also covered the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, being present at the Dallas ...

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Jewish law prohibits doing any form of melachah ("work", plural "melachot") on Shabbat. Melachah does not closely correspond to the English definition of the term "work", nor does it correspond to the definition of the term as used in physics. Rather, it refers to the 39 categories of activity that the Talmud prohibits Jews from engaging in on Shabbat; they are exegetically derived (based on juxtaposition of corresponding Biblical passages) from the kinds of work that were necessary for the construction of the Tabernacle. Many ...

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The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contains a "Holy of Holies" wherein the church's President—acting as the "Presiding High Priest"—enters to fulfill the relationship between the High Priest of Israel and God. This is done in accordance with LDS interpretation of the Book of Exodus (Ex 25:22). Although the LDS church operates over 100 temples, only the Salt Lake temple has this feature. During the construction of the Salt Lake City temple from 1853-1893, the LDS temple in Manti, Utah housed a "Holy of H ...

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