Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg, senior rabbi of Ezra-Habonim, Niles Township Jewish Congregation in Skokie Illinois. This video is about our holiest day Yom Kippur. The Torah says that it is a day in which is on the tenth day of tishray of the seventh month f the year which begins with Rosh Shannah. We are to do Kaparat Anointment and we become Naki clean before God. It is way top win our selves of the spiritual clutter and the sins that we have committed during the year, we have honest repentance. I urge you to see my video on repentance because that shows that we not only repent on Yom Kippur but all day everyday during our prayers. But Yom Kippur considered the most apiaceous and propitious time for atonement. Detor reading for Yom Kippur is from Leviticus sixteen and it describes the Ancients sacrifice of the high priest on Yom Kippur to atone for himself, his family and his people. There are two gold’s in wealthy place in all the scenes of Israel are symbolically and sent the gold into Alsazal the wilderness and sacrifice the other one.
Today we have a custom called Tashlik on Rasha Shannnah where we throw our sins symbolically into the sea with bird food with bread crams feeding the fish. So Yom Kippur has the rituals of atoning by really suffering in our body, not eating and not enjoying other bodily pleasures and enjoyments but simply focusing on the spiritual side of life. Most important famous prayer is called Comedray and basically asks god to annoy our vows made in haste to god during the year but it is the hunting melody of it and the beauty of it is something that is really given great enthusiasm the Jewish spiritual experience. My many people wait whole year to hear that prayer and toned by the canter called mid ray and that is the name of the service really of the night of Yom Kippur then we have the evening service is the only night of the year that all the Caragans wear Pair Shawls, Talitod Orthodoxy Synagogues.
It is the men and that is the extra solemnity to the day, that in the morning we basically pray pretty much all day and a very long service of Shacrate and Mussaf with this special prayers called Alchate for the sins we have committed and Ashamnu where we bit our breast and ask God for forgiveness. We ask God not to judge us just based on justice but to judge us based on mercy. Now, off course some people would think that this is literally Trulic out of judging us for a year of life but I believe it is symbolic of the efforts we need to make to sure that we try and lead more noble and holy lives in the coming year. We go to this process every year to do so. I do not believe that people who die that given you, you have a bad judgment the last Yom Kippur so it is metaphorical but it very powerful but I do believe that God does judge us and forgive us and pardon us, rewards us and punish us as many says. Maybe in this world, maybe more likely in the world to come but we need to go to this process with great sincerity in order to be effective. Now, Yom Kippur also has the book of Jonah read on Yom Kippur afternoon, very interesting story about none Jewish profit. Jonah who I asked to have people of the city of Minivan repent. He does not think that is his responsibility, tries to run away from it, hard to hide from guy, he runs to a ships, the guys makes a storm finally he says it is me that they want so they toss him over board he swallowed up by a big fish. He finally finds himself to dry land and goes a sleep under the gourd for protection under the sun. Makes up in the morning and the gourd is dead and he is mad of God of killing the gourd and God says the humanity of that gourd are mad for me for that gourd, how about the whole of Mineva? They do not care about, so finally he goes to urge under offend and that a way to which the Jewish people look our word then the Yom Kippur for the whole world. The highlights of the service and Yom Kippur, the mourning is called the Aberda where we describe the in great detail the service of the high priest entering the temple holy of holiest only that one time a year and only that one time uttering the name of God. It is a great quote from a played by Elenski called the Debick where says you know we do not have high priest study. More in Judaism we do not have the holy of holiest it was destroyed two thousand years ago. We do not now how to utter the name of God anymore because that tradition was lost.
So what we need to do is strive that each person view himself as if he is the high priest with everyday is Yom Kippur and every place we walk is the holy holiest and every word we utter is as holy of the name of God. What a beautiful way to summarize the essence of the idea of Judaism of inspiring of the holiness. So, those are a lot of the basic ideas of this amazingly, powerful and beautiful day just to emphasize again. View the video under repentance and also that this is a time that is effective for enforcement here with our enforcement here with transgressions against God but the work of other human being we need to do with them.
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