Yom Kippur

[syeline]

celebrate yom kippur tommorrow friday the 24th. its the jewish holiday of mourning the lost. i dont know why they they call it a holiday because you dont get any happiness. you have to pray for the dead. well i guess it gives people comfort but im 14 and i have a date tommorrow night so aint that sometinhg :D

[ordos45]

The final of the ten days of repentence, the Day of Atonement.  Though the Day of Atonement forgives all sins against God, it does not against fellow humans unless their forgiveness is secured.  (or something to that effect if I remember the Talmud correctly.)

[leo]

Yep it's a sad day, It's also the date of a hard war.

[Caid Ivik]

Well, we have such feast on 2nd november, so I'll wait...

[ordos45]

Yep it's a sad day, It's also the date of a hard war.

I was reading an editorial in an Egyptian online paper the other day about how they could've won the Yom Kippur War.  The columnist even went as far as to say that nuclear weapons couldn't have stopped Egypt, that they were merciful to Israel.  If it weren't for the amount of lives lost I would have laughed at the jingoism and ignorance.

[leo]

Lol, funny he was Egyptian, at the end of the war we surrounded the whole Egyptian 3rd army, they had no supply or help, they were in the middle of the Sinai, all surrounded. In addition our forces could have reached Cairo. The Soviet Union was demanding that we will stop our march towards, they even warned us that if not they will open a war against us.

It wasn

[ordos45]

Yes, somehow surrounded and without supplies became something along the lines of 'could have conquered your pathetic nation'.  ::) 

And it was a sad war, too many died.  And the dishonor of a sneak attack on the Day of Atonement...

[Caid Ivik]

Egyptians had always problems with you Jews  ;D

[syeline]

OOOPS YOM KIPPUR IS SATURDAY LOL. last night my mom said goto bed earlier then we do on off days and i was like why we had to goto bed at 10:00  and she said  yom kippur is tommrrow

[leo]

Are you Jewish?

[syeline]

yeah

[Shiroko]

There's nothing sad about Yom Kippur infact, it's a very quiet holiday comapred to others, and probably more impressive in many ways. But the "sad theme" it has is simply because of war back in 1973.

Great holiday though, no cars, quiet in the streets... gotta like it in Israel.

[Caid Ivik]

Little coincidence, just on saturday was a memorial holy mass for one known christian-democratic politician, a half-jew in fact, but practizing catholic. I've made a little faux pas for me when I asked our nuncius after mass whether it was intentionally placed on yom kippur  ;D