Observe Rosh Yom Kippur

By courtney rubin.

Observe rosh yom kippur. What is rosh hashanah. During yom kippur observers will fast all day and pray for forgiveness. The date of yom kippur in the gregorian calendar changes every. Yom kippur concludes the ten days of repentance that begin with rosh hashanah jewish new year and is traditionally observed with a 25 hour fast and intensive prayer.

27 and end the evening of monday sept. It marks the start of the jewish new year as. Yom kippur is the day of atonement the holiest day of the year in judaism. Celebrated 10 days after the first day of rosh hashanah it s a day of atonement and repentance that also features a lot of joy and communal festivities.

Here are ways jewish congregations around the country are observing rosh hashana and yom kippur this year from pretaped shofar blasts to webinars on how to make your own altars. But i ve also had the joy of observing rosh hashanah and yom kippur fully at home and so i know this year will be wonderfully meaningful. When i was little maybe from when i was 3 until i was 11 my family observed rosh hashanah and yom kippur services almost entirely at home. It is the most important jewish holiday.

In the jewish religion rosh hashanah is the jewish new year and the beginning of a 10 day period of introspection and penitence that ends with yom kippur the day of atonement.