Next Stop....Yom Kippur

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The next big holy day is Yom Kippur. Its a fast day and basically all day prayer day. The interesting part it that is falls on the Shabbat! So, which one supercedes the other? Yom Kippur! That means no great feast this week. I'll cook for the kids, but the adults will be fasting.

Its called Yom (day) ki (like) Pur (pur =singular; plural =purim): A day like Purim.  But they seem like total opposites! On Purim, we get drunk, make merry, dress in crazy clothing, and party all day/night. A bit like holloween but with a twist....


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. But on  Yom Kipur, we are solemn. We pray to be written in the book of life, pray for everything for the coming year, beg for forgiveness. And NO EATing. So how can Yom Kipur be "like Pur(im)"?

I'll let Aish.com unravel that one!

But it does remind me of a date my sister once went on. The guy was very, very spiritual. He almost seemed to reject his body. And he was quite displeased at my sisters hold on the physical, the mundane, the lowly.

Surely, he felt it was beneath him to partake in the physical of the world more than minimally required. And he's right! But its an even higher level to be capable of participating in the physical world, while still maintaining the pure spiritual frame of mind!



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