Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year. It is a day for us to look at the way we behaved during the past year and to apologize and ask Hashem to forgive us for any choices we've made that weren't so good and to ask Hashem to give us a good year.
Hashem loves us and wants to give us a sweet and happy year.
We do things at this time to show Hashem we love Him and want a happy year.
BEFORE YOM KIPPUR:
We show Hashem we care about people by saying sorry to those whom we may have wronged in any way and ask for their forgiveness.
We give extra tzedaka.
We swing a chicken around our heads and ask Hashem that if we have done anything wrong and ask Hashem to have mercy and forgive us. We then give the chicken to poor people to eat. This shows Hashem that we care about others and we will help them, just like Hashem will help us.
We also eat sweet honey cake. Yum!
ON YOM KIPPUR:
Adults should not eat or drink.
Adults and children dont wear leather shoes, spray on perfume, or smear on creams since we're busy davening to Hashem asking Him to give us a sweet year. Nothing else on this day is as important as fasting and davening.
After a long day of fasting at the end of Yom Kippur, the Rabbi blows the Shofar and then we ask Hashem that next year we should celebrate in Yerushalayim.
We should all be inscribed in the Book Of Life for a good, happy, healthy, and sweet year! Amen!
Here you see David helping to make the honey cake
Michelle putting on crocs, non leather shoes showing a type of shoes allowed to be worn on Yom Kippur.
The kids heard the different sounds and saw the different sizes of the shofar at the Shofar Show in our class. Here Joshua is holding a real long shofar. do you think it makes a loud sound? Well, it actually makes a low sound surprisingly enough. :)
The friends decorating their tzedaka boxes
The boys bravely touching the rooster (male chicken) that the Rabbi swung over their heads.
The girls touching the hen (female chicken) that the Rabbi swung over their heads.
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