Yom Kippur
A Jewish philosopher stops by to talk about how Jews—and one major non-Jew—have thought about repentance.
In the wake of the Yom Kippur War, the words yom kippur shel, “the Yom Kippur of,” have referred in Israeli speech to any debacle that might have been prevented by better judgment.
Apart from Kol Nidrei, no High Holy Day prayer is better known than Un’taneh Tokef. But there’s a puzzle at its heart.
This week, we dig through the archives to bring you excerpts from our best conversations on faith, mortality, tradition, obligation, and sin.
The rabbis saw no contradiction, only completion.
For Yemimah Mizrachi, it’s the simple folk who matter.
Jonah is the anti-Moses: a prophet who wants to persuade the Lord that some people are that bad and should be made to pay for their sins.
For the sins of attacking the electoral system, of not defending Israeli society, . . .
Cosella Wayne.
S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”
The antithesis of both ancient pagan fatalism and the modern cult of victimhood.
What happens when, once a year, the urge to accommodate every consumer fashion meets massive Jewish cultural illiteracy?