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The Yom Kippur Services
An Overview of the Yom Kippur Prayers
Your friendly guide to the Yom Kippur services.
A friendly step-by-step guide to the synagogue services, starting with what to wear and where to sit, and ending with the shofar blast and the breakfast.
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Yom Kippur Eve Services
Kol Nidre is the opening prayer of the holiest day of the year. But is it even a prayer? What is its purpose and meaning?
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What does the morning service ("Shacharit") consist of? And what is the "Yizkor" service?
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The "Musaf" service is an essential portion of Yom Kippur prayer, culminating with the Priestly Blessing...
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What prayers are said in the afternoon? And why that specific Torah reading?
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As the awesome day of Yom Kippur comes to a close, and our future is being sealed, we turn to G-d to accept our sincere repentance and new resolutions...
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The "Al Chet" confession of sins is said ten times in the course of the Yom Kippur services...
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At dawn or early in the morning before Yom Kippur, take a live chicken, fish or money which will then be given to charity and recite...
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