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Yom Kippur
Marking One Year Since Oct. 7
Live Event: One Year Stronger
Join us as we reflect and gain inspiration from each other to make a real difference. This webcast will feature messages from those directly impacted by the attack and the war and shows how the Jewish nation is one year stronger.
Join us as we reflect and gain inspiration from each other to make a real difference. This webcast will feature messages from those directly impacted by the attack and the war and shows how the Jewish nation is one year stronger.
By the Numbers
11 Facts You Should Know About Kol Nidre
One of the most well-known parts of the Yom Kippur service, its haunting melody signals the beginning of the holiest day of the year.
One of the most well-known parts of the Yom Kippur service, its haunting melody signals the beginning of the holiest day of the year.
10 Questions: Take the 10 Days of Teshuvah Quiz
What do you know about the significance of these 10 days?
What do you know about the significance of these 10 days?
Your Questions
How Does Yom Kippur Work?
Only you can fix yourself. What does a particular day of the year have to offer?
Only you can fix yourself. What does a particular day of the year have to offer?
Why Smell Fragrances on Yom Kippur?
This custom stems from the obligation to recite 100 blessings each day.
This custom stems from the obligation to recite 100 blessings each day.
Letters of Light
"Teshuvah out of love" [arises] from the depths of the heart, with great love, desire, and a craving soul to cleave to G-d; the soul thirsts for G-d like a parched and barren soil, because, up until now, it was in a barren wilderness and in the shadow of death... very distant from the face of G-d... It is regarding repentance out of such great love that it has been said that premeditated sins become, for him, like virtues, since through them he attained this great love...
— Tanya, chapter 7
Print Magazine
Torah is the interface between the Infinite and creation. On the outside, it speaks the language of humankind. On the inside, it is depth without end.
Grasp either end and you have nothing. Grasp both and you have G‑d Himself.
Sefer Hasichot 5751 vol.1, pg. 84.
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