Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through ...

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Muslims typically commemorate Eid al Fitr with a community prayer service in the morning, called Salat al-Eid. The prayer is ...

When the time comes for the sacred day of atonement that is Yom Kippur, those who observe do so in part by participating in a 25-hour fasting period. The intention is to demonstrate discipline and ...

Rav Hutner teaches that the solution to the above complex question and puzzling contradiction is to be found in the role and interplay of Yom Kippurim (the Day of Atonement ... in the names of the two ...

While the origin of fasting is unknown, it is as natural as eating, sleeping, laughing, and crying. It has been known to man and beast since the beginning of time.

Yom Kippur is known as the Day of Atonement and is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It involves a nearly 26-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, focusing on repentance and seeking ...

Six months later, on the tenth of Tishrei, God answers. Yom Kippur arrives not as arbitrary atonement but as deliberate reciprocity. The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 18a) teaches middah keneged middah ...

What happens when you don’t eat? You become faint. What happens if you continue without food? You will pass out. And if you still don’t eat, your soul will leave your body and you will die. Eating ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the tashlich ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

And on Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, Jews do not eat or drink anything at all for 24 hours. Every year for the entire month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from first light until sundown ...