Fwd: Your guide to Yom Kippur

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Subject: Your guide to Yom Kippur
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Laws, Lessons and Inspiration!

To view this email as a web page, click here. YOM KIPPUR 5787 Join the YUTorah Society Sponsor Learning on YUTorah RECENT FEATURED SHIURIM Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman The Future of American Jewry Rabbi Dr. Yosef Bronstein Why is Am Yisrael's Success Dependent on Teshuva? Rabbi Yaakov Glasser Before We Emerge: The Kohein’s Tevilah, Our Teshuvah, & the Courage to Begin Again Rabbi Aharon Kahn The Mitzva of Ahavas Hashem as a Lifelong Agenda Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz Three Messages of Kol Nidrei Rabbi Shay Schachter The Minhagim of Yom Kippur Rabbi Moshe Taragin The Three Varieties of Teshuva Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner Yom Kippur and Nikanor's Missing Door Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky How Torah Learning Transforms Our Teshuva 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 Yom Kippur Avoda The avoda of the Kohen Gadol makes up such a large part of the Yom Kippur mussaf, take a few moments to understand exactly what it entailed and how it's relevant to our lives today. Start Learning The 13 Middos Harachamim What is the secret power of repeating the Attributes of Mercy over and over again in our davening on Yom Kippur? And what do they mean? Start Learning The Vidui of Yom Kippur What sins are we confessing to exactly? And why are we singing them together out loud? 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 Daf Yomi | 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.