Yom Kippur: The Holiest Day in The Jewish Calendar

Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is all about repentance and Atonement, it is a 25-hour period of Fasting and prayer. Many of the Jews spent Yom Kippur in synagogue services Praying. This holy day ends the annual period of the High Holy Days (or "The Days of Awe").

All Jewish people celebrate Yom Kippur in the tenth day of the month of Tishrei, "when God inscribes the fate for EACH person in the Book of Life is a Rosh Hashanah, and Waits UNTIL Yom Kippur to" seal "the verdict. During the Jewish holidays the people try Thurs seek forgiveness for all the wrong things they've done against God and against mutch people and at the end of the Yom Kippur, on the public and private Confessions of guilt, every one is absolved of guilt by God.

Jews in Israel began the start of the holiest day on Friday. This MEANS That Israel is shutting down for the period of the fast day, for 25 hours of prayer and repentance. If you're in Israel and you'll wonder why there is no TV or radio broadcast, why the streets are empty and the stores are closed, you think there think about Yom Kippur. Look on the bright side: you'll not have plenty of time to read a pretty good book and enjoy a bicycle ride on the streets of Jerusalem.

Preparations for Yom Kippur consiste of egg for breakfast, 10 cups of Water at During the day and eating lots of carbohydrates. At the end of the holy day all the synagogues will announce the new day with a blast of the Shofar (ram's horn).

Yom Kippur is a more somber holiday Rosh Kashanah please. In the synagogue Rabi says the Kol Nidre, an Aramaic Declaration recited before the beginning of the evening service. It is not a prayer, it's a Ceremonial accompaniment. It means "all Vows."