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Tishrei 6, 5772 * October 4, 2011
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Editor's Note:
My family recently celebrated the marriage of my youngest sister. The music played, the wine flowed, and we laughed, danced and cried.
But there was a moment that went somewhat unnoticed. Just after the glass was shattered and mazal tovs rang out, the bride and groom spent 10 minutes in a private room–the wedding planner didn't allow them any more than that–before coming back to the hall for dinner (and more pictures, of course).
Known as yichud, these moments of privacy are the most unceremonious part of the ceremony. Neither the rabbi, the parents, the caterers or even the photographers were there. According to Jewish law, it is precisely this private moment that defines them as a married couple. They are now exclusively each other's in a relationship that is theirs to forge. I'd venture to say that their pre-wedding single selves are not either invited in into the yichud room.
If the holiday month of Tishrei is a wedding, Yom Kippur is the yichud room. The other holidays involve external rituals: blowing shofars, shaking lulavs. On Yom Kippur, there is just us, fasting and talking to G‑d. For 25 hours we are all alone with our spouse. Our relationship will not be defined by the caterer (maybe that is why we fast), the rabbi's speech, or the cantor's singing. We set the tone for the beginning of an intimate relationship with G‑d, where the neighbors, the angels, and even our last year's selves aren't welcome.
Mazal tov and an easy fast!
Baruch Shalom Davidson
Responder for the Ask the Rabbi team @ Chabad.org
P.S. For times, insights and lots of great Yom Kippur info, check out our Yom Kippur minisite [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=16C28C24D6EA7C1D05BF8C0CDF5E67B5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ].
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:
YOM KIPPUR ESSENTIAL TOOLKIT
Yom Kippur Minisite
How-to guides, essays and insights, prayer service overviews, stories, multimedia, and much more!
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CBBFB8DB29C2BDB069CEB662BB74A529&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Yom Kippur Mitzvah Minute
One page with the basic how, what, and why of the holiest day on our calendar.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2910148A20E0EE1E383C195AD13325F6&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
A Step-by-Step Yom Kippur Guide
This confession is recited silently, and with each sin that we confess we lightly knock our chest–the domicile of the heart, the seat of our passions and impulses . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6A09887E32582526A4FEAF9F96FDDA3E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
UNDERSTANDING YOM KIPPUR
The Ten Days of Teshuvah (Adapted by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)
Translation pitfalls: equating a Jewish idea with one drawn from another culture, when the two are in fact dissimilar.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=ABE7C98D45A626FD9BDCBE66EFA8B17C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Reverse Biology (Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)
When a person eats, he is nourished by the food and drink he ingests. On a fast day, vitality comes from the body itself.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=EBBF798F50F1AFDC9F0BDDAAC3C13711&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Story of Your Life (By Shais Taub)
You are Jonah. The Book of Jonah is the story of your life.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=36E9BA6A794777348FBCFA34559331E9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
A White Yom Kippur (By Yaakov Paley)
Have I been wrapped in shrouds, or did I don a garment of light?
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=305A5E821196CEC363FF70E279795097&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Asking Others for Money (By Sara Esther Crispe)
We have the false illusion that when someone gives money to someone else, the giver is the big hero...
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F386E3644A9B0E5805CF0A10A70171EE&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
YOM KIPPUR: RETURNING TO G-D
I Ate Non-Kosher Food, Now What? (By Aron Moss)
After cooking with it and feeding my family, I read the ingredients, and to my horror, the sauce wasn't kosher!
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=88247FF853C663021E8C2A273F2FE26F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Voicemail (By Israel Rubin)
If you feel you reached us in error, this is the right place, for to err is human and to forgive is divine . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1848908B612561601FF5DC3F9B60CA5F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Repentance Is a Trap (By Tzvi Freeman)
Why waste the holiest day of the year dwelling on everything you messed up?
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=89268B67C4E9870D2D7CA38BB7FC6917&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
YOM KIPPUR: RECONCILING WITH OUR FELLOWS
Saying "I'm Sorry" (By Samantha Barnett)
How could someone say that to me? I thought. I took cotillion as a child. I took etiquette classes in college. I was a classy lady . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B744ECAF2F3287C25350B058A46F6215&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Butcher and the Bone (By Shimona Tzukernik)
The road to reconciliation was closed, and despite calls, a letter, more calls, even visits… that was the last we spoke...
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=285D373D1D8A2A3713971625DB8AA181&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Art of Forgiveness (By Eliezer Shemtov)
Sometimes, the most difficult person to forgive is oneself...
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C1DD0360F507E9BEF07AC672D54E8BF9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
YOM KIPPUR IN REEL TIME
High Holidays Bloopers (video) (Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich)
Rabbi Itche Kadoozy attempts to deliver a Rosh Hashanah message. 255 times.
WATCH (2:17) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5CC0C2EE3E558EAF5598AD6F4950F440&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Inch By Inch (video) (By Alan Veingrad)
Are you worrying about the end zone, or steadily working toward your goal inch by inch?
WATCH (0:53) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1A13E47153AEE357361CAB4945E41C65&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Yizkor: Remembering Together (video) (By Lazer Gurkow)
The value of community in times of grief as well as joy.
WATCH (10:21) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9F2754386C0A68733B4D2727AF55ACE2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
YOM KIPPUR IN TIMES GONE BY
Straight from the Heart
"By the sanction of the Almighty and by the sanction of the congregation . . . We declare it permissible to pray together with those who have sinned . . ."
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=09B32F2325F9CA0A7D49A4FF5DEEB409&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Holy Day (By Chana Heilbrun)
Slowly the shelter came to life . . . but neither my two sisters nor my mother touched the food . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F1B4CBC39CFACA5E4EA6421E76CFE854&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
My Father's Machzor (By Zushe Greenberg)
Hidden from view, he copied the prayerbook, line by line, into a notebook . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=01E2385EA1E8B67018009EA03F174CA1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY
Gedaliah (By Nissan Mindel)
The honor and success that Gedaliah had won filled Ishmael with a cruel and dangerous jealousy . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=7077E046CC7CB561306C0575E448727A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
A Mother's Greatest Sacrifice (By Chana Weisberg)
"I ask you to swear a serious oath that cannot be broken, that you will follow my request even if a human life is at stake."
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F77791E9DA6C2919F17A6C5D3ED085EA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Never Give Up! (video)
Rebbetzin Chana voluntarily followed her exiled and ailing husband into government-imposed exile in a remote town called "Ch'ili" in Kazakhstan.
WATCH (8:55) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=0F86EEC93B0CAC8E9A624983C64C9175&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
UNDERSTANDING CHASSIDISM
Infinity Unchained (By Tzvi Freeman)
How do you fit an infinite G-d into a decidedly finite world? (Third in a series on the revolution of Chassidic thought.)
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