Re: How Did Humanity's Birth-Day Become Its Day of ?Judgment?

Giorgies E. Kepipesiom <kepipesiom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's about the joy of atonement. With the loss of the temple, fear about
not acheiving that atonement overwhelm the day, but that's still not
about death.

Good point. (Note the Habad custom to break into song and dance at the
completion of Neila.)

     Not just Chabad. It's the custom in virtually all yeshivot, and
in many synagogues as well.

Nonetheless we wear a kittel to remind us of the day of death and
prompt us to teshuva....

I objected to an e-flier that called Yom Kippur a reenactment of death,
and then perhaps went too vague and said it's not about death. I still
stand by that notion that death isn't a central theme of Yom Kippur,
it's repentence. But to the non-minor extent that death does show up,
it's about avoiding death, not reenacting it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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