Can anyone tell me what the holiday Yom Kippur is ?

Question

Can anyone tell me what the holiday Yom Kippur is ?

Answer 1

a jewish holiday.

Answer 2

It's the holiest of Jewish holidays. The day of atonement. Basically, you're supposed to ask fogiveness from God and everyone you may have offended in the past year. I think you're not supposed to eat from sunset till the following sunset.

Answer 3

it is the Jewish Day of Atonement- it is celebrated much like a Sabbath with no work but there is also fasting. A great site to answer your questions about this and other Jewish holidays and customs is :



http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm

Answer 4

I think it's the forgiveness holiday. It's 4 Jews. This one girl in my class said all they did was sit and ask 4 forgiveness. I might be getting it mixed up, though.

Answer 5

Yom Kippur is a Jewish religious holiday - their holiest day. It's the "Day of Atonement" and involves fast (no food or drink for a day) and prayer. No work either.

Answer 6

It is the holiest day in Judaism, a day to repent for all your sins. You spend the whole day in the Synagogue praying for forgiveness.

Answer 7

its either jewish new year(end of jewish calender) or the day they have to fast.



i get yom kippur and rosh hasahna mixed up, im not jewish.

Answer 8

the Jewish Day of Atonement

to seek forgiveness from sin and repent

the one day the priest brough blood into the holy of holies to cover sin



came from God speaking to Moses and is very serious in the Jewish faith and God told Moses something sounding like he would perosnallytake the life of the people not pracitcing it so I believe there is a belife that God determines who will live through the upcoming year because of the statement made to moses



Jesus death on the cross is portrayed by the book of Hebrews to be the atonement for all time, and not a once every year event



Yom is day, Kipper is atonment , day of covering i think

Rosh Hasham is add a year, new year I forget which work is year

Answer 9

Jewish Day of Atonement

Answer 10

It's A Jewish Holiday.

Answer 11

Its a day to celebrate meee!!!!

Answer 12

Yom Kippur is a Jewish holiday. It means "Day of Atonement" and it comes from Leviticus chapter 16. Once a year, the high priest would make atonement for the people at the Holy Temple. Even though the Temple is no longer in existence, Jews still observe this holiday by going to synagogue and fasting from sundown the night before to sundown of that day.

Answer 13

It is the Jewish day of Atonement. A day to reflect on any sin or displeasures to God.

Answer 14

I don't have much to add . . fasting from sunset to sunset, asking forgiveness . . but I wanted to mention, it's a bit like your confession, but you get to do it every week, we have to save up the whole year . . also, we only confess our sins to God, so there's no middle man to forgive us, it's God or nothing . .