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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.”
Take the Yom Kippur True or False Quiz

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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?
Podcasts
Kosher Yoga?

Aryeh Siegel embraced Eastern meditation and Hindu practices before realizing how harmful they are. Now, he’s on a mission to save people from TM (Transcendental Meditation) and introduce them to kosher practices.
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."
Video
What the Rebbe Told Someone Who Wished to Die

A story Rabbi Kalmenson says he wishes he included in his book, On Purpose.
Ten-Day Journey

The prophet Isaiah declares: “Seek G‑d when He can be found, call to Him when He is near.” The Talmud explains: “This refers to the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.”
Lifestyle
“Lekach” Honey Cake

Refraining from indulging in the pleasures of this world is only a fine preparation for avoda (service of G-d). Avoda itself is transforming the physical into a vehicle for G-dliness.
— Hayom Yom, Sivan 17