Rabbi Lauren Tuchman

Tag: fasting

  • Thoughts For Yom Kippur 5782

    Thoughts For Yom Kippur 5782

    Yom Kippur is often translated into English as the Jewish day of atonement, though I feel that this is a mistranslation. Yom Kippur’s awesomeness, in the literal sense of the word, is that the Jewish tradition provides us with a 25-hour period, Shabbat Shabbaton (the sabbath of sabbaths) to focus…