My יוֹם כִּפּוּר (yom kippur) in Israel was amazing! My chag started off early Sunday morning when I woke up for tefilot at 8:30 and then we had different classes on different subjects all relating to יוֹם כִּפּוּר. I went to Shosh’s session about what we cant do on יוֹם כִּפּוּר (other than all the stuff we cant do on Shabbat we also cant shower and put makeup on, wear leather shoes, eat, or have marital relations….)and Noah’s on… something else about the Holiday (lets be honest- my attention can only be held for so long). Afterwards Lainie, Sophie, Ilana, and I went to go get Burgers Bar before the fast… it was an awful story that does not end in me eating a Delicious burger before my fast… instead we went to the sketchy falafel place across the street where we could taste the forborne illnesses…. Nothing can replace the taste of botulism. Anyways dinner was at 3:30 and the fast started at 4:50 (the last thing I ate were Reeses Pieces, so we knew the holiday was going to be awesome after that).
Kol Nidre (Hebrew: כל נדרי) was spent with Ally, Ilana, Leeann, Sophie, Britney, and Lainie. We all went to services and then came back to find everyone singing in the middle of the street singing in a circle! All 84 nativers were sitting literally in the middle of one of the busiest intersection in Israel singing ruach songs. Before long we had attracted a crowed of at least 100 people from all different backgrounds watching and singing along with us. There were black coats (well white on יוֹם כִּפּוּר… but still) and secular Jews, elderly and children, couples and familes all lining the streets to come and join us in our songs. It was a special and great way to start the Chag. The experience was amazing and just one of the many that I will never be able to experience in the states but only a place like Israel.
This morning I woke up to go to a Nature Museum service with Ally, Leeann, Ilana, and Alex…(the whole walk there we were able to walk right in the middle of the roads with literally no car in sight- it was the coolest thing ever! All we knew was that it was right of of Emik so we thought we would just be able to find it… Well we were wrong and ended up following the signs to a Nature Museum for about 20 minutes… turns out ‘nature museum’ in Israel really means natural history museum that is locked with no service going on… so we walked to Kedem (a conservative synagogue close by) and did services there. It wasn’t as moving as singing in the streets was but hey at least I got to ask for forgiveness… The rest of the Holiday was pretty uneventful…until break fast where I went out to Burgers Bar for real this time and ate a very satisfying hamburger with Lainie and Noah…
So all in all I would give this יוֹם כִּפּוּר two thumbs up!
Sorry to Judah who I forgot to mention in my last blog post:
Last shabbat Judah and I went on a very nice shabbat walk to my favorite place in the world! You guessed it Yemin Moshe! We talked about very classy issues and looked out at the amazing view this location offers. It was a memory I will never forget with a friend I will have forever, “Judah Judah best”!
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