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Yom Kippur Stories



The Paper Chicken
The Paper Chicken
"How I do kaparot?" repeated Rabbi Elimelech. "I do what everyone else does. I hold the rooster in one hand, the prayer book in the other, and recite: This is my exchange, this is in my stead, this is my atonement..."
Two Groschen
Two Groschen
"The Rebbe must know something we do not," whispered disciples of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. "Perhaps he sees a terrible calamity decreed for the coming year, G-d forbid"
The Tenth Jew
The Tenth Jew
“By the sanction of the Almighty,” Rabbi Leib intoned, “and by the sanction of the congregation, . . . we declare it permissible to pray together with those who have sinned . . .”
The Yom Kippur Drunk
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 He's there already"
Abraham's Synagogue
Abraham's Synagogue
The Jews of the settlement began to feel desperate, and busy as they were, they scattered towards all the main roads, hoping against hope that even at this late hour a miracle would happen and they would find a tenth Jew...
Self-Sacrifice
Self-Sacrifice
There was a woman who had given birth there who had been left alone when everyone went to the synagogue...
Kano
Kano
Do you know where Kano is? Look it up on the map of Nigeria in West Africa
Cock-a-doodle-do!
The Boy who Cried Cock-a-doodle-do!
The boy knew the sounds made by all the different farm animals, and he especially esteemed the rooster's crowing. When he heard the weeping and the outcries, his heart was also shattered and he cried out loudly, "Cock-a-doodle-do! G-d, have mercy!"
The Prayers in the Field
The Prayers in the Field
As soon as the holy day was over, the man rode into Mezhibuzh, despondent and heartbroken. But the Baal Shem greeted him full of joy
True Believers
True Believers
I tried to hide from these hoodlums, and since it was Shabbat night, I closed my eyes and immersed myself in the Shabbat prayers. After several minutes a mustached Uzbek with a powerful physique and a scarred face approached me...
The Cantonists' Minyan
The Cantonists' Minyan
The few who survived were so emotionally and psychologically destroyed that they were never able to live normal lives. They lived together in little villages, apart from the rest of the world
The Princess
The Princess
Many dukes and princes wooed the princess, but she turned them down one after another. The king became impatient and swore that the next young man that would come to the gates of the palace would be her husband...
Holy Day
Holy Day
A Yom Kippur in Hiding
Slowly the shelter came to life . . . but neither my two sisters nor my mother touched the food . . .
The Shofar and the Wall
The Shofar and the Wall
Could we possibly forgo the sounding of the shofar, which symbolizes the redemption of Israel? For me, it was unthinkable...
My Father's Machzor
My Father’s Machzor
In 1951 my father, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, was twenty years old and a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia. That Yom Kippur, he faithfully prayed all the day’s prayers. All, that is, except for Kol Nidrei.
Zaidy's Yom Kippur
Zaidy's Yom Kippur
It's an old voice, but powerful and steady. It is my Zaidy saying the mourner's Kaddish for his father, whose yahrtzeit is Yom Kippur
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
"Jay," my friend wrote in his e-mail, "I don’t think you should go to shul and ask G-d for forgiveness. This Yom Kippur you should stay home, and G-d should beg you to forgive Him for what He's done to you"
The Marranos Celebrate Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
Will the exiles from Spain finally find refuge from their oppressors...?

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