Yom Kippur Online
One of the most enjoyable and informative things about blogs are the way they allow bloggers to just rap informally about their everyday lives. However, one person’s everyday life is another person’s exotic window to the world.
Our teen-blogger pal Nate recently updated his blog with a piece about his experience celebrating Yom Kippur with his family this year. For the gentiles among us, even this rather simple little post is full of fascinating descriptions and ideas about a religion and culture we may no very little about.
Check out Nate’s post, but first, here are a few definitions from Wikipedia:
Yom Kippur: Known in English as the Day of Atonement, it’s the most solemn and important of the Jewish holidays. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur is the tenth and final day of the Ten Days of Repentance which begin with Rosh Hashanah.
Shul: A synagogue (from Greek: συναγωγή, transliterated synagogē, “assembly”; בית כנסת beit knesset, “house of assembly”; שול or בית תפילה beit tefila, “house of prayer”, shul; אסנוגה, esnoga) is a Jewish house of prayer.
