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Yom Kippur<\/h1>\n\n\n

The Day of Atonement<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn day of the Jewish year — the close of the Ten Days of Repentance that begin at Rosh Hashanah. Tradition marks it with a twenty-five hour fast, from sundown to nightfall the following day, and with an unusually full day of communal reflection.<\/p>\n

In a spiritual humanistic frame, we keep the day’s seriousness while relocating its meaning. Atonement here is not a plea for a verdict handed down from outside us; it is an honest accounting we do for ourselves and with one another — naming where we’ve drifted from who we want to be, and recommitting to repair it. The fast is a tool for that seriousness, not an end in itself.<\/p>\n

Marking the Day<\/h2>\n

This week’s fast begins and ends times for a range of locations are kept up to date on our Home page<\/a>, alongside this week’s Shabbat candle-lighting and Havdalah times.<\/p>\n

For a fuller reflection on how to approach the day itself — and why it works better as an exercise in self-acceptance than in guilt — see:<\/p>\n

Preparing for Yom Kippur \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

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G’mar Hatimah Tovah — may you be sealed for good.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn day of the Jewish year — the close of the Ten Days of Repentance that begin at Rosh Hashanah. Tradition marks it with a twenty-five hour fast, from sundown to nightfall the following day, and with an unusually full day of communal reflection. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualhumanisticjudaism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}