Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
A little over 24 hours in which everything stops, and the constant preoccupation with the question "what are we eating now" gives way to a time of self-reflection.
On this day the mitzvah is to repent and confess one's sins - but with a true self-promise to change.
The hearts match, the soul feels a little closer to heaven, and prayers such as "Khal Nadri" or "Naila" with their moving poems make even the greatest cynics feel the power and experience of the moment.
There are matters that if we missed them, nothing would help.
But Yom Kippur is a day of "restart", of renewed opportunity.
Like a kind of time tunnel, you can go back to the past and fix what you missed.
Only that on this holy day it is a real reality.
On the eve of Yom Kippur: thousands came to pray at the Western Wall // Photo: Elron Zabatani/TPS
The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that Yom Kippur illuminates, openly and without filters, the inherent self-connection of souls with Israel and G-d. Like a family connection between a father and a son or daughter, regardless of what you did or where you were. All year long we put on a kind of image But it is not the real, pure, original us. On Yom Kippur the inner soul is revealed in all its glory.
This happens because God draws near to us on this day, and thus the soul within us awakens to remove all the outer layers and discover its true essence.
Then it becomes clear that every Jew inside is a shining diamond that no sin can harm.
Deep down, every Jew is good, righteous and clean.
Inside his soul he is pure and holy.
On Yom Kippur the true Jew is revealed.
All of this is conditional on one thing: observing the Yom Kippur fast.
People who during the year do not attend synagogues, come to pray on Yom Kippur, photo: Eldad Beck
Precisely then, without all the covers we have put on ourselves, we are connected to the source and really want to start over.
Thousands of people who during the year do not attend the synagogues, come to pray on Yom Kippur.
In the synagogue, in a Chabad house or even in a special, air-conditioned prayer tent that the apostles set up on a makeshift parking lot. Because everyone wants to feel at home, and there is no more promising start than walking hand in hand with G-d on the holiest day.
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