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<p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">What:</b> <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4687/jewish/Yom-Kippur-2025.htm" title="Yom Kippur 2025" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Yom Kippur</a> fast day is the holiest day of the year, when we are closest to <span glossary_item="35798" style="max-width: 100%;">G\u2011d</span> and to the essence of our souls. Yom Kippur means \u201cDay of Atonement,\u201d as the verse states, \u201cFor on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/433240/jewish/God.htm" title="God in Judaism" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">G\u2011d</a>.\u201d<span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;">1</span></p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">When:</b> The 10th day of <span glossary_item="31772" style="max-width: 100%;">Tishrei</span> (in <b style="max-width: 100%;">2025</b>, from several minutes before <a href="/calendar/zmanim.asp?hdate=7/9" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">sunset</a> on <b style="max-width: 100%;">Wednesday, October 1,</b> until after <a href="/calendar/zmanim.asp?hdate=7/10" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">nightfall</a> on <b style="max-width: 100%;">Thursday, October 2</b>), coming on the heels of <span glossary_item="26099" style="max-width: 100%;">Rosh Hashanah</span> (the Jewish New Year, which is on the first and second days of <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/2263462/jewish/Tishrei.htm" title="The Hebrew Month of Tishrei" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Tishrei</a>).</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">How:</b> For nearly 26 hours we \u201cafflict our souls\u201d:
<a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4489890/jewish/Yom-Kippur-Fasting.htm" title="Yom Kippur Fasting" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">we abstain from food and drink</a>, do not wash or apply lotions or creams, do not
wear leather footwear, and abstain from marital relations. Instead, we spend
the day in synagogue, praying for forgiveness.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;">Just months after the people of <span glossary_item="33065" style="max-width: 100%;">Israel</span> left Egypt in the
year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), they sinned by worshipping a <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/3613047/jewish/What-Was-the-Golden-Calf.htm" title="What Was the Golden Calf?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">golden calf</a>.
<span glossary_item="33731" style="max-width: 100%;">Moses</span> ascended Mount Sinai and prayed to G\u2011d to forgive them. After two 40-day
stints on the mountain, full Divine favor was obtained. The day Moses came down
the mountain (the 10th of Tishrei) was to be known forevermore as the Day of
Atonement\u2014Yom Kippur.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">That year, the people built the <a href="/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2133493/jewish/What-Was-the-Tabernacle-Mishkan.htm" title="What Was the Tabernacle (Mishkan)?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Tabernacle</a>,
a portable home for G\u2011d. The <span glossary_item="28633" style="max-width: 100%;">Tabernacle</span> was a center for prayers and
sacrificial offerings. The service in the <a href="/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2133493/jewish/What-Was-the-Tabernacle-Mishkan.htm" title="What Was the Tabernacle (Mishkan)?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Tabernacle</a> climaxed on Yom Kippur,
when the <span glossary_item="28252" style="max-width: 100%;">High Priest</span> would perform a specially prescribed service. Highlights
of this service included offering incense in the <span glossary_item="24156" style="max-width: 100%;">Holy of Holies</span> (where the ark
was housed) and the lottery with two goats\u2014one of which was brought as a
sacrifice, the other being sent out to the wilderness (<span glossary_item="33037" style="max-width: 100%;">Azazel</span>).</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">While the <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4195084/jewish/The-High-Priest-in-Jewish-Tradition.htm" title="The High Priest in Jewish Tradition" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">High Priest</a> generally wore ornate golden clothing,
on Yom Kippur, he would immerse in a <i style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="32676" style="max-width: 100%;">mikvah</span></i> and don plain white garments to perform this service.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">This practice continued for hundreds of years, throughout
the time of the first <span glossary_item="32901" style="max-width: 100%;">Temple</span> in <span glossary_item="29658" style="max-width: 100%;">Jerusalem</span>, which was built by <span glossary_item="31524" style="max-width: 100%;">Solomon</span>, and the
second Temple, which was built by <span glossary_item="35192" style="max-width: 100%;">Ezra</span>. Jews from all over would gather in the
Temple to experience the sacred sight of the High Priest performing his
service, obtaining forgiveness for all of Israel.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">When the second Temple was destroyed in the year 3830 from
creation (70 CE), the Yom Kippur service continued. Instead of a High Priest
bringing the sacrifices in <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4246466/jewish/Jerusalem.htm" title="Jerusalem" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Jerusalem</a>, every single Jew performs the Yom Kippur
service in the temple of his or her heart.</p>
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Praying <span glossary_item="31204" style="max-width: 100%;">Selichot</span> in Israel.
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<p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">Forty days before Yom Kippur</b>, on the first of <span glossary_item="34940" style="max-width: 100%;">Elul</span>, we begin blowing the <i style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="33512" style="max-width: 100%;">shofar</span></i> every morning and reciting Psalm 27 after the morning and afternoon prayers. In Sepharadic communities, it is customary to begin saying <a href="/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/4350/jewish/What-Are-Selichot.htm" title="What Are Selichot?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Selichot</a> early every morning (<span glossary_item="28921" style="max-width: 100%;">Ashkenazim</span> begin just a few days before <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4644/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-2025.htm" title="Rosh Hashanah 2025" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Rosh Hashanah</a>)\u2014building an atmosphere of reverence, repentance and awe leading up to Yom Kippur.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">For <b style="max-width: 100%;">the week before Yom Kippur</b> (known as the <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4826/jewish/10-Days-of-Repentance.htm" title="10 Days of Repentance" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">10 Days of Repentance</a>), special additions are made to prayers, and people are particularly careful with their <span glossary_item="32377" style="max-width: 100%;">mitzvah</span> observance.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">Just as Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, <b style="max-width: 100%;">the day before Yom Kippur</b> is set aside for eating and preparing for this holy day. Here are some of the activities that we do on the day before Yom Kippur:</p>
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<li style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/989585/jewish/Kaparot.htm" title="Kaparot" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Kaparot</a> is often performed in the wee hours of this morning</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">There is a beautiful custom to request and receive a piece of honey cake, so that if, G\u2011d forbid, it was decreed that we need be recipients, it be fulfilled by requesting honey cake and being blessed with a sweet year.</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">We eat two festive meals, one in early afternoon and another right before the commencement of the fast.</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Many have the custom to immerse in a <i style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/323424/jewish/Mikvah.htm" title="Mikvah" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">mikvah</a></i> on this day.</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Additional charity is given. In fact, special charity trays are set up at the synagogue before the afternoon service, which contains the Yom Kippur <span glossary_item="31234" style="max-width: 100%;">Al Cheit</span> prayer.</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Just before the fast begins (after the second meal has been concluded), it is customary to bless the children with the Priestly Blessing.</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Holiday <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/989590/jewish/Yom-Kippur-Candle-Lighting.htm" title="Yom Kippur Candle Lighting" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">candles are lit</a> before the onset of the holy day. <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/1303865/jewish/How-Many-Candles-on-Yom-Kippur.htm" title="How Many Candles on Yom Kippur?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Read more about the various candles traditionally lit before Yom Kippur.</a>
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<span glossary_item="32362" style="max-width: 100%;">Shabbat</span> and holidays are ushered in with candle lighting.
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<p style="max-width: 100%;">Like Shabbat, no work is to be done on Yom Kippur, from the
time the sun sets on the ninth of Tishrei until the stars come out in the
evening of the next day.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">On Yom Kippur, we afflict ourselves by avoiding the
following five actions:</p>
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<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">Eating</b> or <b style="max-width: 100%;">drinking</b> (in case of need, <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/528963/jewish/What-is-the-procedure-for-one-who-must-eat-on-Yom-Kippur.htm" title="What is the procedure for one who must eat on Yom Kippur?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">see here</a> and consult a medical professional and a rabbi)</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Wearing <b style="max-width: 100%;">leather</b> shoes</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Applying <b style="max-width: 100%;">lotions</b> or creams</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">Washing</b> or bathing</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;">Engaging in <b style="max-width: 100%;">conjugal relations</b></li>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;">The day is spent in the synagogue, where we hold five prayer services:</p>
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<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="32722" style="max-width: 100%;">Maariv</span></b>, with its solemn <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/5345/jewish/Kol-Nidre.htm" title="Kol Nidre" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Kol Nidrei service</a>, on the eve of Yom Kippur;</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="29910" style="max-width: 100%;">Shacharit</span></b>, the morning prayer, which includes a reading from <span glossary_item="29405" style="max-width: 100%;">Leviticus</span> followed by the <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/371509/jewish/Yizkor-The-Memorial-Prayer.htm" title="Yizkor - The Memorial Prayer" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Yizkor memorial service</a>;</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="33843" style="max-width: 100%;">Musaf</span></b>, which includes a detailed account of the <a href="/search/keyword_cdo/kid/15098" kid="15098" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Yom Kippur Temple</a> service;</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="31514" style="max-width: 100%;">Minchah</span></b>, which includes the reading of the <a href="/library/bible_cdo/aid/16183/jewish/Chapter-1.htm" title="Chapter 1" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Book of Jonah</a>;</li>
<li style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="33582" style="max-width: 100%;">Neilah</span></b>, the \u201cclosing of the gates\u201d service at sunset, followed by the <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/3061833/jewish/Why-Blow-Shofar-Following-Neilah-After-Yom-Kippur.htm" title="Why Blow Shofar Following Neilah After Yom Kippur?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;"><i style="max-width: 100%;">shofar</i></a> <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/3061833/jewish/Why-Blow-Shofar-Following-Neilah-After-Yom-Kippur.htm" title="Why Blow Shofar Following Neilah After Yom Kippur?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">blast</a> marking the end of the fast.</li>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/1965282/jewish/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-Yom-Kippur-Synagogue-Services.htm" title="What You Need to Know About Yom Kippur Synagogue Services" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Click here for a detailed overview of the day\u2019s prayers.</a></p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">Beyond specific actions, Yom Kippur is dedicated to introspection, prayer and asking G\u2011d for forgiveness. Even during the breaks between services, it is appropriate to recite <span glossary_item="33482" style="max-width: 100%;">Psalms</span> at every available moment.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">To purchase a <span glossary_item="31851" style="max-width: 100%;">Machzor</span>, click <a href="/article.asp?AID=1965254" aid="1965254" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">here</a>.</p>
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Lulavim and etrogim for sale in Israel prior to <span glossary_item="32900" style="max-width: 100%;">Sukkot</span> (file photo).
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<p style="max-width: 100%;">After night has fallen, the closing <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/997118/jewish/How-Many-Sets-of-Prayers-On-Yom-Kippur.htm" title="How Many Sets of Prayers On Yom Kippur?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Neilah</a> service ends with the resounding cries of the <span glossary_item="34317" style="max-width: 100%;">Shema</span> prayer: \u201cHear O Israel: G\u2011d is our L\u2011rd, G\u2011d is one.\u201d Then the congregants erupt in joyous song and dance (a <span glossary_item="33262" style="max-width: 100%;">Chabad</span> custom is to sing the lively \u201cNapoleon\u2019s March\u201d), after which a single blast is blown on the <i style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/4837/jewish/Shofar.htm" title="What Is a Shofar?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">shofar</a></i>, followed by the proclamation, \u201cNext year in Jerusalem.\u201d</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">We then partake of a festive after-fast meal, making the evening after Yom Kippur a <i style="max-width: 100%;"><span glossary_item="31455" style="max-width: 100%;">yom tov</span></i> (festival) in its own right.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">Indeed, although Yom Kippur is the most solemn day of the year, it is suffused with an undercurrent of joy; it is the joy of being immersed in the spirituality of the day and expresses confidence that G\u2011d will accept our repentance, forgive our sins, and seal our verdict for a year of life, health and happiness.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">There is a custom that after Yom Kippur, we immediately begin (planning) construction of the <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/609535/jewish/What-Is-a-Sukkah.htm" title="What Is a Sukkah?" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">sukkah</a>, which we will use for the joyous holiday of Ohio Communities Of Faith let us share with our Jewish family today</p></section></div></co:body></div></div></div></body></html>