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Yom Kippur

By the Numbers
12 Facts About the Yom Kippur War

While causing Israel many losses, the battle also highlights how “the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
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Your Questions
Why the Break Fast?

The Freeman Files
Yom Kippur Without Guilt

How about someone who abandoned a religious lifestyle because she was abused by the authority figures of that system?
Voices
Zaidy’s Yom Kippur

It’s an old voice, but powerful and steady. It is my zaidy (grandfather) saying the mourner’s kaddish for his father, whose yahrtzeit is on Yom Kippur.
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."
Lifestyle
“Lekach” Honey Cake

One whom people are pleased with, G-d is pleased with him; but one whom people are not pleased with, G-d is not pleased with him
— Ethics of the Fathers 3:10
Print Magazine

All of Torah is wrapped up in these leather straps and boxes with their finely written parchment scrolls.

Because this is the essence of every mitzvah:

To bind your heart, your mind and your action together into a single wholeness, wrapped up inextricably with the One who spoke and the world came into being.

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