The holiday begins at sundown and lasts until sundown the following day. Jews believe that they can perform acts of prayer, repentance, and charity during the Days of Awe to influence God, changing how they are categorized before the books are sealed on Yom Kippur. In the Mishnah, the legal text that dictates Jewish daily life, God is portrayed as inscribing people’s names in one of three books on Rosh Hashanah: a book that records the names of good people, a book of evil people, and a book of people who are neither totally wicked nor righteous. During the 10-day period, a person is thought to be able to influence God’s plans for the coming year. Yom Kippur marks the end of the Days of Awe, or Days of Repentance, that begin with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Moses returned with a second set of the Ten Commandments-and God’s forgiveness for Israel. In anger, he smashed the commandments, set in stone, then headed back up the mountain to pray for God’s forgiveness for himself and his people. During his prolonged absence, they began worshiping a golden calf, considered a false idol. After God gave Moses the Ten Commandments atop Mount Sinai, Moses returned to the Israelites. Tradition has it that the holiday originated with the prophet Moses. This year, Yom Kippur will be celebrated on 10 Tishri, 5783-October 4 and 5, 2022, on the Gregorian calendar. The holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur means “day of atonement.” It takes place on the tenth day of Tishri, the first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the religious year in the lunisolar Hebrew calendar. From guilt to mourning and self-abnegation to resolve, Yom Kippur is the emotional climax of the Jewish faith’s high holy days-a holiday period that kicks off with Rosh Hashanah, the observance of the Jewish New Year.
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