09/15/2021
We wish our Jewish students, faculty, and staff blessings on Yom Kippur. May your fast be meaningful, and may you be inscribed and sealed for a good and sweet year.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish year. It follows 10 days after Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Those 10 days are a time for making amends with those we have hurt or wronged in the past year. Yom Kippur is a day of individual reflection and communal prayer focusing on our commitment to make the coming year a better one for ourselves, our families, our communities and our world. It is a 24 hour fast day (for those healthy enough to fast safely), and concludes with the blast of the Shofar (ram's horn) an ancient sound linking our past to our future.
