Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is known as the Day of Atonement and many Jews spend the day in synagogue praying, fasting, and engaged in deep spiritual and religious reflection. An appropriate greeting for the festival is, “Have a meaningful Yom Kippur,” or “May you be sealed in the book of life.”
The LMU community is welcome to join the Yom Kippur celebration beginning Tuesday night, October 4 at 6 p.m. for dinner, which will be followed with a 6:45 p.m. service in Malone 112. Wednesday services begin at 10 a.m. This will be followed by a reading of “The Book of Jonah” from 1 – 1:45 p.m., a Yizkor (memorial service) from 2 – 2:30 p.m., and a Nehila/closing by 3 p.m. The gathering will break the fast together at 6 p.m. at our Hillel Student President’s house, out the back gates. For more information contact Rabbi Zachary Zysman in Campus Ministry.
