- Yom Kippur comes ten days after Rosh Hashanah and is the ending to the "High Holidays." It is a time for reflection, repentance and fasting.
- It's a day of prayer and reflection, repentance and fasting
- Fasting starts the night before it's marked on secular calendars, also known as Kol Nidre.
- You break the fast with family and friends.
- Traditionally, a live white chicken would be circled above your head while you ask for forgiveness for your sins. Then you would slaughter the chicken and give it to the poor. Charity work can be substituted now days.
- It's a day for doing a mitzvah or other good deed.
- No working, and services last most of the day. Many synagogues will charge for these services since they are so busy- this is a new thing for us gentiles.
- When pronouncing Yom Kippur it should rhyme with poor not dipper.
Some activities you can do with your family-
- Write letters to yourself explaining ways you will be a better person in the upcoming year. If your kids are too young to write their own letter you could go around the table and say something outloud.
- If you are a little flexible in how you are observing Yom Kippur or want to do it the days leading up to Yom Kippur, you could volunteer together as a family.
- Make your own Tzedakah box, ("piggy bank" to give to charity) out of a shoe box. Let the little ones decorate it with anything you have around the house- markers, glitter, paint yarn, Stars of David from tin foil.
Enjoy the break fast!
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