Yom Kippur

[tzipporahfeiga]

The usual disclaimers.

Yom Kippur

The joyful folk elements of Rosh Hashanah contrast markedly with the tenor of the final, and most sacred, of the Ten Days of Repentance, Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement. Also called the Shabbat Shabbaton - Sabbath of Sabbaths - it is the holiest day in the Jewish year, when usually empty synagogues are filled to

Comments

[iddewes]

Is this one of the essays for your conversion or something you had to do for your classes in Israel? just curious :D

[tzipporahfeiga]

This is conversion stuff - I don't really have classes with any regularity, so the consequence is that in order to prove I've actually done the reading, I have to write stuff. I don't always form it into essays though, because while not difficult per se, it is tedious and time-consuming. I thought it slightly more important to spend that time on my finals/thesis/ulpan. I imagine living in London you'll have formal classes a lot more teaching and a lot less writing-to-prove-you've-read. My classes aren't mostly about teaching new things, but checking I've done the work set. The Edinburgh ones, which had a group of people, were different - there they had a topic you found out on the day and were taught about for a couple of hours, but you can do that with numbers.

Israel is just Hebrew, nothing in English at all.

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