Celebrate

Each and every holiday in the Jewish calendar comes with its own unique set of insertions into the prayers intended to celebrate the special character of that festival.

The link Maimonides found between confession and repentance.

We must be cleansed from the polluting effects of sin.

After the destruction of the second Temple, the focus of the holiday changes.

There are five factors in teshuvah (repentance), each of which can be a starting point for the entire process.

The two prayers, Ashamnu and Al Chet constitute the Jewish confession.

Yom Kippur culminates the process of repentance begun before Rosh Hashanah.

A modern interpretation of sin and repentance.

God is present after we sin.

An account of ten rabbis killed by the Romans is a centerpiece of the Yom Kippur service.

Song of Songs is an erotic poem that compares young love to gazelles frolicking in the field. So why is it read on the holiday of liberation?