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Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam

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David Ben-Ariel:
Mon., Oct. 9, '89/9:30 p.m.

Kibbutz Sdot Yam

Today was Yom Kippur, so I begin to write on a "clean slate," beginning with synagogue services (2 1/2 hrs.) last night to usher in this holiest of Jewish days.

I mainly went for the experience, as well as spiritual solidarity with my people (G-d's Church & the Jews) around the world. I read & sang only about a tithe of the service - amazed that I could keep up in Hebrew I'd never read before.

With me were other ulpanistim [Hebrew students] who elected to fast - mainly, I believe, for the experience or test or show-off of will-power. G-d alone knows. I scanned the faces of all those assembled in the make-shift synagogue with mixed emotions and an alien distance.

 Tradition - even empty, hollow, shallow - has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly; yet I also couldn't help but think of G-d & Kahane who might dismiss such "worship" as vain and such "devotions" as void. Liberal, Hellenist, humanists who have nothing to do with G-d and are ignorant of or deny His Word as a general rule, as hypocritical & unacceptable as professing Christianity on the pagan days of Christmas and Easter - temporarily becoming "religious" or sickly kind...Nevertheless, may we all ultimately worship the One True G-d... G'mar hateemah tovah! [Be inscribed for good in the Book]....

Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam

Shlomo:

--- Quote from: David Ben-Ariel on October 03, 2006, 02:01:26 PM ---Tradition - even empty, hollow, shallow - has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly
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You are speaking lashon hora (evil tongue). What gives you the right to judge?

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