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A little different: from synagogues to bike shops, this Yom Kippur will not look the same

As the corona changes world orders, even ancient customs and old habits are forced to change under the constraints.

From the ultra-Orthodox who this time gave up the villages through the worshipers who will stay at home to the serial travelers who stayed at home this year, the Israelis are preparing for a special Yom Kippur

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Yaki Adamkar and Dana Yarkatzi

Sunday, 27 September 2020, 15:25

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In the video: The Slichot prayer at the Western Wall (Photo: mx1, Edited by Shaul Adam)

Yom Kippur of 5741 will look a little different from its predecessors, in the shadow of the general closure and corona restrictions. Many will give up their permanent place in the synagogue, others will avoid other types of gatherings, and cyclists in the cities will reconsider. The customs of the holiday, so dear to them.

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Yom Kippur, a little different.

Tel Aviv, yesterday (Photo: Reuven Castro)

For many, the restrictions on prayers will break long-standing habits.

One of them, Moshe Davidi, is a regular worshiper in the Great Synagogue in Ramat Gan.

"Every year on Yom Kippur, I come in the morning and go out in the evening. Participates regularly in prayers and it is a spiritual experience that has no brother or sister. There is a cantor, a large choir and good conditions for a long prayer."

This year, due to the spread of the Corona virus and although synagogues will remain open, Davidi and many others like him will have to look for an alternative in the open air.

"This year I will pray under the house," he says.

"We organized some neighbors, set up an improvised pergola and prayed outside. Unnecessary risks must not be taken."

"It will not be easy," says Davidi.

"Prayer on Yom Kippur lasts for long hours, even if we have shelter from the sun, still, when you are fasting and not eating or drinking and there is very high humidity outside, it is not an easy task at all. I hope we and older people, will be able to get through it safely."

He made it clear that he would not give up the prayer itself under any circumstances.

"There is no such chance that we will give up prayers on the holiest day of the year but we hope to survive it outside," he explained.

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"People are still under pressure."

Children riding bicycles in south Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur 5777 (Photo: Yotam Ronen)

Michael Xerzon, owner of Ofan, a bicycle shop that has existed in Tel Aviv for more than 20 years, shows that there are things that the Corona will not change either.

He said that despite the closure and the corona, people are "still under pressure" from Yom Kippur and recall "in the 90th minute taking the bikes out of the attic" and arriving to repair them - and do so even more than previous years, fearing the store will close in advance due to instructions.

"They seem to think we'll close and not be open, but the guidelines allow shops that repair bicycles to be open according to the purple mark," he explains.

"We are allowed to work with a closed door, we are not allowed to sell and get an audience, but it is possible to leave a bicycle outside the door."

According to him, in previous years people always remembered that Yom Kippur comes two days before, while this year the feature has been going on for a long time.

"I feel like for weeks I'm working on a bike before Yom Kippur, that's the feeling. Even now if people are standing and waiting, I understand that people are recommended to go out and ride a bike and let children ride a bike in Yom Kippur. I do not know why they recommended - but this is the recommendation I heard: And to get out and ride, "he said.

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At the same time he explains that the market has been very volatile this year in light of economic and health developments.

"The supply in terms of sales is much smaller, because of the Corona factories in China did not work, and after they returned to work there was no export and no import. After everything was repaired, then companies and factories in China just preferred other countries. Quantitative, Chinese prefer to sell in quantities," he explains "The market has changed not because of Yom Kippur, but because of the corona: [For several months now] people have preferred clean transport, they do not want to get around by public transport, everyone wears jerseys and goes to the park to do sports. This has increased sales, they prefer bicycles more than before."

In the "bicycle of Christ" the feelings are different.

Messiah Ne'eman, the owner of the mythical store, noted a "sharp drop in sales" in the face of the crisis.

"Even if I want to work fully I am not allowed to, people can not leave the house and they also do not have money - these are three things that together affect," he explained, expressing concern about how the closure will affect the store until the fast begins.

"Usually, before every Yom Kippur I work 24 hours a day, and now I'm not sure anyone will come on Saturday night," he said. "If a policeman comes I will close the store. If not I will move on, maybe I can only fix them when people are out. And I'm inside. "

"There is a limit to how much a small virus can paralyze the world of tourism and me."

Carmel Kamin (Photo: Courtesy of the photographed)

Carmel Kamin, a travel blogger, usually spends her holidays overseas, but this year she will have to stay in Israel.

"In recent years during the Tishrei holidays I am usually not in the country, and prefer to take advantage of these days off for travel and trips. Facebook constantly reminds me how last year I traveled during this period in Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia, two years ago in Kyrgyzstan. "In previous years I have been in Crete, Nepal and India during this period. This travel hobby is also reflected in my travel blog 'Carmelit Terminal', where I document my travels and share tips with the surfers," she says.

But the corona suddenly changed its plans: for more than half a year that it did not visit Ben Gurion Airport, and also the holidays, including Yom Kippur, it will do here this time. "Since last February I have not been abroad, and the corona has caused me for the first time in years "I spend the holidays in Israel. I will try to remember how Yom Kippur is done at home," she says, trying to look ahead.

"It sucks and is unfortunate, but also the option of traveling with a mask and fearing that the destination will become a red country during the visit sounds less delightful to me. I think I will wait a little longer for the world to return to normal. I guess by the next holidays "Small can paralyze the world of tourism and me."

"A lot of people made atonement for money this year. There was a low response."

Yoelish Kreuss (Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

For Yoelish Kreuss, too, this holiday will look completely different.

For many years, he has run the most active slaughterhouse in the country between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, with more than 1,500 people coming to the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem every year and conducting the custom of the villages at the entrance to his slaughterhouse.

This time the numbers were significantly lower.

"This year maybe 700 people came," says Kreuss.

"We were prepared as required by the guidelines, we increased the area significantly, we determined that one should not just stay in the place but should make atonements and move on, but people did not come. There is a very great fear of crowds, Or they arrived earlier last week. "

Kreuss says that unlike every year, he and other slaughterhouse workers even made direct deliveries to people’s homes.

"Whoever still wanted to make atonement without leaving the house, we brought him chickens to the house to order, and then we returned them to the slaughterhouse."

He said, "Many have made atonement for money this year. We have had a very low response."

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