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Yom Kippur: Holy Days
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Seen in this way, Yom Kippur is a journey. Over the course of 26 hours, you have the opportunity to turn off the regular world and re-enact the drama of kapparah, cleansing. And the soul-searching and the catharsis are two sides of the same coin, because you can’t release what you don’t first discover and accept. The phases will vary. You might move from apathy to remembering, to regret, and then to reconciliation and release. Or you might drift in and out of the day’s emotions, focusing more on resolutions, concerns and pleas.
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The Yom Kippur fast is the strictest of the entire year. The fast lasts for the entirety of the day, from sundown on the eve of Yom Kippur till nightfall the following night, over twenty four hours. The fast involves five prohibitions:
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Well before sunset on the day before Yom Kippur, families gather around a sustaining meal that will prepare their bodies for the coming fast. Generally, salty or spicy foods, caffeine,and alcoholic drinks are avoided because they can make fasting more difficult.
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While Yom Kippur itself is devoted to fasting, the day before is devoted to eating. According to the Talmud (Tractate Yoma 81b), the person "who eats on the ninth of Tishrei, it is as if he had fasted both the ninth and tenth."
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Although it is not possible to honor Yom kippur with delicious food and drink, as one does for Shabbos) one should honor Shabbos in ways that are permissible and within the spirit of a day filed with awe. [MB 9]
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It is customary to wear white on Yom Kippur. This is symbolic of the angels and of spiritual purity. Many married men wear a kitel, which is ... worn upon burial (and by many men at their wedding) as a reminder of the day of death and repentance.
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