What is Yom Kippur?

Question

I saw it on the list and I was curious about it.

Answer 1

The article describes the religious holiday. For the 1973 military conflict see Yom Kippur War.
Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur (1878)
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Official name Hebrew: יום כיפור or יום הכיפורים
Also called Day of Atonement
Observed by Judaism and Jews
Type Jewish
Significance Judgment day for individuals and all people. Day of Atonement for sins, and for the Golden calf.
Date 10th day of Tishrei
2006 date sunset, October 1 – sunset, October 2
2007 date sunset, September 21 – sunset, September 22
Observances Fasting, prayer
Related to Rosh Hashanah, which precedes Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, which follows Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יום כיפור yom kippūr) is the Jewish holiday of the Day of Atonement. It falls on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishri. The Bible calls the day Yom HaKippurim (Hebrew, "Day of the Atonements"). It is one of the Yamim Noraim (Hebrew, "Days of Awe"). The day is commemorated with a 25-hour fast and intensive prayer.
Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of repentance, considered to be one of the holiest and most solemn days of the year. Its central theme is atonement and reconciliation. Eating, washing, cosmetics, wearing leather shoes, and conjugal relations are prohibited (Mishnah tractate Yoma 8:1). Total abstention from food and drink usually begins half-an-hour before sundown (called "tosefet Yom Kippur," the "addition" of fasting part of the day before is required by Jewish law), and ends after nightfall the following day. Although the fast is required of all healthy adults, fasting is specifically forbidden for anyone who might be harmed by it.

Yom Kippur is observed in different ways in different Jewish communities. Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spanish, Portuguese and North African descent) refer to this holiday as "the White Fast." Consequently, many Jews have the custom of wearing only white clothing on this day, to symbolize their "white" (pure) desire to free themselves from sin. Ashkenazic Jews, while acknowledging the origins of the holiday as a day of rejoicing, tend to take a more somber, solemn attitude to the day.

Yom Kippur is considered one of the holiest of Jewish holidays, and its observance is held even among the majority of secular Jews who may not strictly observe other holidays. Many secular Jews will fast and attend synagogue on Yom Kippur, where the number of worshippers attending is often double or triple the normal attendance. In Israel, public non-observance (such as eating or driving a motor vehicle) is taboo. In Israel on Yom Kippur there is no broadcast television, no public transportation, and the airports are closed. There is no commerce of any kind in the Jewish areas.

Answer 2

Its the Jewish day of atonement and the most important day of the year too! On Yom Kippur we fast from sunset the night before until after sunset on Yom Kippur day. Men all dress in white and we pray most of the day. We aks G-d to forgive us for our sins and to seal us for a good year to come. Its the festival that follows our new year which is 10 days prior.

Answer 3

Beth: Yom Kippur is a Jewish Holy Day from the Old Testament in which observers "fast" (withdraw from eating any food) for a 24 hour period. It is strictly for Jewish people not Christains, today.

Answer 4

This is a Jewish celebration Jews and gentile celebrate it people fast for 24 hour no food no water nothing it cleanness the soul feel with others ask for forgiveness feel the hunger and the suffering and pray in the end of the day celebrate with other s the best place to be at this Holiday is JERUSALEM

Answer 5

The more I learn about Yom Kippur, the better I like it. I really wish Christians would observe it or at least incorporate parts of it into their worship and practice.

Answer 6

The feast of unleavened bread

Just "kipping"

It's the last chance for a Jewish person to express apologies to the spirit of God and people they live with for all the bad stuff they did. It's about saying your sorry and asking to be forgiven. It's a pretty huge production all around and the thing about not eating is so that you lift yourself away from the main aspects of a normal day and it also the hunger gets you kind of high too! There's going to prayer services for the morning and afternoon being a big part of the day...Not just sitting around at home being bored and hungry. It's pretty intense if it's done right. Then, when it's over, you eat dinner and go back to normal!! Imagine!

Answer 7

Jewish holiday, specifically the "Day of Atonement," characterized by a 24 hour fast for Orthodox Jews. It's not the feat of unleavened bread - that's Passover.

It's preceded by Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which is 10 days prior.

Answer 8

It's a Jewish holiday where Jews pray to God so he will forgive them of all the sins they did that year. They apologize to God, their friends, and family. Jews fast on that day, so they realize what they have to appreciate.

Answer 9

Jewish holiday, we spend the day in fast and prayer, and G-d forgives our sins if we repent properly. Happiest day of the year.

Answer 10

Any Jewish person knows it,don't you have some Jewish friends-ask them.It's a celebration of Jewish New Year.