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Yom Kippur Prayers
articles on Yom Kippur Prayers
The Meaning of Yom Kippur
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Yom Kippur - A Day of Liberty
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Prayer During the Ten Days of Repentance
The "Ten Days of Repentance," as their name indicates, are days set aside for repenting
The Prayer of the High Priest
From here he gazes upon all of the needs of the people of Israel.
Lessons on Yom Kippur Prayers
Faith and Finality
At the conclusion of Neilah, at the final moments of Yom Kippur, we have a dramatic "Declaration of Faith:" The Chazan says Sh'ma Yisrael, & we repeat it; he says Baruch Shem K'vod Malchuto 3 times & we repeat it; & he then says "Hashem Hu Ha-Elokim" 7 times & we repeat it. What is the meaning of all this?
Lessons
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
