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Before losing ourselves in the magic of October, let us take a minute to reflect on the season that has gone by (kind of like baseball's version of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur...
...Cambridge City Council did not meet Monday, due to Yom Kippur. It will meet next Monday at City Hall at regularly scheduled time
This is a scary thought in the season of Yom Kippur, when, according to Jewish tradition, our fates and fortunes for the coming year are determined. The prayers we recite on this holiest of days do not speak of housing lotteries or exam groups. "On Yom Kippur judgement is sealed: who shall live and who shall die: who shall rest and who shall wander; who shall be comforted and who shall be tormented," reads one of the more poignant prayers of the day. We are reminded that there are important and genuinely frightening life issues that we sometimes lose sight...
...Yom Kippur is not meant to simply scare us out of our wits. The day carries an inspired message of personal redemption. After reciting the above passage about this fateful day, the congregation exclaims, "But repentance, prayer and charity cancel the evil decree." We can control destinies if we take a good look at our-selves and at the way we act towards others...
...from Newark, New Jersey. But with puberty came doubt. I became the Voltaire of Schuyler Avenue, the scourge of poor Rabbi Engel, who endured my contempt for his gullibility. By the time I graduated from high school, I was a budding molecular biologist, and though I continued fasting on Yom Kippur, it had become an act of solidarity with my heritage, not obedience to a God I believed...