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“Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days (or sometimes "the Days of Awe"). [...] According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into the Book of Life on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict.”
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Image via WikipediaYom Kippur this year coincides with the weekly sabbath, and also coincides with the 18th day of the month of the secular calendar. The latter coincidence may add significance for those observants who recall that the Hebrew words for "18" and for "life" have the same root.
The vile Jew-haters of the world try to take advantage of Yom Kippur, believing Jews to be most vulnerable to attack on this their holiest day. But the Jew-haters' ignorance leads them to miscalculate, as some of them learned in 1973. Life and self-preservation take precedence over religiosity, even on the Day of Atonement.
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