If I was to sum up YOM KIPPUR in just one sentence, I would say the following: While the Law was perfect, its purpose was NOT to perfect. So what is the purpose of the Law? The purpose of the law is to teach us the difference between good and evil from God’s perspective. It teaches us how […]

Out of all the feast days, modern religious Jews continue to honor YOM KIPPUR (the Day of Atonement) as the HOLIEST and most important of them all. However, since there is now no temple nor High Priest to make atonement per the original instructions in Leviticus 16, the observance of YOM KIPPUR and its actual meaning has undergone quite a few […]

“It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.  For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be […]

“Next, he is to slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, bring its blood inside the curtain and do with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood, sprinkling it on the ark-cover and in front of the ark-cover.  He will make atonement for the Holy Place because of […]

“The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, is to be carried outside the camp; there they are to burn up completely their hides, meat and dung. The person burning them is to wash his clothes and bathe his […]