Fwd: Your guide to Yom Kippur

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Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 10:01 AM
Subject: Your guide to Yom Kippur
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Laws, Lessons and Inspiration!

To view this email as a web page, click here. SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 6 • TISHREI 7-14 The learning on the site this week was sponsored: by Francine Lashinsky and Dr. Alexander and Meryl Weingarten in memory of Meyer Lashinsky, Meyer Ben Avraham Hakohen, z"l on the occasion of his yahrzeit on the 7th of Tishrei, for a refuah shlemah for Yitzchak Zimel ben Rivkah, in honor of their children Mark, Michael, Julie, Marnie and Michelle, and in the zechut of the  hostages and the chayalim by Dr. Barry and Marcia Levinson in honor of their children and grandchildren by Nachi & Joyce Friedman to mark the shloshim of Gittel Bayla bas Tuvia by the Schneider and Cooper families in loving memory of Edith Cooper יהודית בת יצחק הלוי by Ilana and Moshe Wertenteil in loving memory of Arthur Fein, Alter Shimshon Hakohen by David & Deborah Pfeffer and family in memory of Ilana Pfeffer (Miriam Ilana Rena bas Dovid A'H) on her 7th yahrzeit by Robert Berko l'ilui nishmas his father משה יעקב בן ישראל יהודה ז"ל in memory of Meir ben Chaim Shmuel Join the YUTorah Society Sponsor Learning on YUTorah The Mitzvah to Eat on Erev Yom Kippur Why would there be an imperative to eat before Yom Kippur? What's the deeper meaning of this mitzvah? Start Learning The Laws of Fasting What are the guidelines for when one needs to fast and when one would be permitted to eat? Start Learning The Prohibition to Wear Leather What kinds of shoes are permitted to wear on Yom Kippur? Is there a deeper meaning to this prohibition? Start Learning Kol Nidrei These words are the way we enter into one of the holiest days of the year, why? How does it work? What are we saying? Start Learning Understanding the Yom Kippur Machzor Bring your davening this year to a whole new level with insights on the words and structure of our Yom Kippur tefillot. Start Learning The Book of Yonah Why is Maftir Yonah so significant to Yom Kippur? What is the connection between the story and what we are trying to accomplish on this day? Start Learning Neilah and the End of Yom Kippur What should we be concentrating on at the final closing moments of the Day of Judgement? What's unique about this tefillah? Start Learning EXPLORE THE CUSTOMS OF YOM KIPPUR RECENT FEATURED SHIURIM Rabbi Elchanan Adler Preparing for Yom Kippur: Halachos of Mechila Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman The Struggle and the Dance: Teshuvah on Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur Rabbi Reuven Brand Yom Kippur: All In Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman The Obligation to Seek and Grant Mechilah Rabbi Chaim Packer Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur: Transforming Shviras HaLuchos into Kabbalas HaTorah Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky A Choleh on Yom Kippur, Shabbos and Yom Tov Daf Yomi | Parshat Ha'azinu | Support YUTorah Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) 515 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 To continue receiving RIETS emails, please subscribe to the RIETS option in the Manage My Subscription form The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah Website is a project of Yeshiva University.