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Believe in the Utter Sweetness of Your Life
Spiritual Sunday This coming Friday, from sunset through nightfall of the following day, Judaism celebrates Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement, its holiest day.The ritual involves fasting and prayer,...
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Out of Darkness, Sanctified into Being
M. Gottlieb, "Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur" Spiritual Sunday Since I post on spiritual matters on the Christian sabbath, my Yom Kippur poem always appears five days early. Occurring on...
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Yom Kippur – Disordered Souls Thirsting
Malka Partouche, “Shofar, Yom Kippur” Spiritual Sunday Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the holiest of Jewish holidays, begins Tuesday evening and lasts for the subsequent 25 hours. To honor the...
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Rich Reflects on Yom Kippur & Conflict
Maurycy Gottlieb, “Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur” Spiritual Sunday – Yom Kippur Here’s an Adrienne Rich poem to commemorate Yom Kippur, observed this past weekend. As the day where Jews...
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Live in the Layers, Not on the Litter
William West, “Israelites Passing through the Wilderness” Spiritual Sunday Rabbi Rachel Barenblat in the wonderfully named Velveteen Rabbi blog alerts me to this poem by Stanley Kunitz as we look ahead...
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A Ninth Century Prayer for Yom Kippur
Leopold Pilichowski, “Yom Kippur” Saturday – Yom Kippur As today is Yom Kippur, I’m posting last year’s post on the Jewish holiday, along with links to previous Yom Kippur posts. G’mar Hatima Tova...
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Live in the Layers, Not on the Litter
Isidor Kaufmann, “Yom Kippur” Spiritual Sunday – Yom Kippur For today’s post about Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement (or the Sabbath of Sabbaths), I turned to the luminescent blog Velveteen Rabbi...
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May God’s Love Be Taught in Jerusalem
Wailing Wall and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Spiritual Sunday – Yom Kippur Today is Yom Kippur, the day when Jews seek to atone for their sins against God and their fellow human beings, both publicly...
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i beg what i love and leave to forgive me
Maurycy Gottlieb, Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur Spiritual Sunday – High Holy Days Judaism’s High Holy Days come to an end Tuesday and Wednesday with Yom Kippur, a day of atonement when...
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