Yom Kippur..one last thing

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Besides the fasting, the main purpose of this day is to pray for our

misdemeanours of the past year to be forgiven, and to start the year

with a clean slate. If we pray with devotion we go home with a lovely

feeling of cleansing and a fresh start.

The synagogues are packed. Even Jews who don't observe much the whole

year, go to " shul " on Yom Kippur. We had a paid security guard outside

our shul this year, an innovation! Our little shul was very stuffy,

and we had a constant fight regarding opening the windows.

It seems to be sods law that old ladies always have their designated

seats next to the windows, and then refuse to let anyone else open

them, cos they don't want the draught! But as a friend of mine said

today, when I pointed this " sods law " out to her, " yes but when they

first were designated those seats they weren't old ladies! "

Ruthie