{"id":930,"date":"2020-09-27T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=930"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:09:29","slug":"yom-kippur-day-of-atonement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/09\/27\/yom-kippur-day-of-atonement\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Kippur &#8211; Day of Atonement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-933 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/yom-kippur-bible-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/yom-kippur-bible-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/yom-kippur-bible.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a day-long fast and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0purpose of Yom Kippur\u00a0is to effect individual and collective purification by the practice of forgiveness of the sins of others and by sincere repentance for one&#8217;s own sins against God. Leviticus 23:27 decrees that\u00a0Yom Kippur\u00a0is a strict day of rest.<\/p>\n<p>During Yom Kippur,\u00a0Jews\u00a0attend worship services where the machzor, a prayer book used during holy days, is read and specific prayers are recited. At the end of the services, a shofar or ram&#8217;s horn is blown to signal the end of Yom Kippur. Then, Jews are able to feast, breaking the fast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-934 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/yom-kippur-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some traditional recipe choices for the meal include: rice, kreplach (stuffed dumplings), challah (dipped in honey, as Yom Kippur occurs 10 days after Rosh Hashanah), chicken or fish. Meals usually should be prepared with minimum salt, as this could cause dehydration during the fast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-932 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/09\/yk-breakfast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a day-long fast and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. The\u00a0purpose of Yom Kippur\u00a0is to effect individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/09\/27\/yom-kippur-day-of-atonement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yom Kippur &#8211; Day of Atonement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}