Yom Kippur begins at sunset on the evening of the 10th of Tishrei. 
 
 

Yom Kippur happens on

Oct. 6, 2003	Jewish Year 5764
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Traditions

    Yom Kippur - beginning at sunset on the evening of the 10th of Tishrei, Jews all over the world do not eat or drink for 25 hours. 
   The fast of Yom Kippur can be found in (Num 29:7). All adults are required to fast. Boys and girls before their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs are not required to fast. People that are too ill to fast are also not required to fast.
   The Yom Kippur service is actually FIVE services:

   1) Kol Nidre             The evening service 
   2) Shacharit              The early morning service
   3) Musaf                  The second or additional Service 
   4) Mincha                 The afternoon service
   5) Ne'ila                   The final service
 
   The Kol Nidre service is the evening service and is called that because of the first prayer we say Kol Nidre ("all Vows"). The service is started before sundown because we are asking for all of the vows we have taken or the promises that we have made and not kept be forgotten. This is like a lawyer asking for something and it is not done on a holiday or Shabbat, so before the sun goes down and the holiday begins, we say this three times.
 
   Strange facts about Yom Kippur:

              * Candles are lit after the meal  

              * The only biblical holiday that 
                 there is no kiddush preformed.

              * The only time during the year  
                 that we wear a talit after dark 
                 in a prayer service. 
 
   Many people wear sneakers or soft slippers throughout the day rather than leather shoes.
   After the final shofar blast in the Ne'ila service the whole congregation says "Next year in Jerusalem!"
   Now it is time to break the fast. Now you know where that phrase came from: Breakfast.
 





   Blessings




The evening service is called "Kol Nidre" it is also the name of the famous prayer. The cantor chants Kol Nidre which is hundreds of years old and unlike any other prayer that we hear in synagogue.




                        












   Kol Nidrey ve-esarey va-ha-ramey v'konamey v'hinu-yey v'kinusey u-sh'vuot, di-n'darna u-d'ish-t'vana, u-d'ah-rimna, v'di-asarna al naf-sha-tana mi-yom kipurim sheh-avar ad yom kipurim zeh ha-ba aleynu l'tovah, kol-hon ih-ratna v'hon, kol-hon y'hon sharan. Sh'vikin, sh'vitin, b'teylin u-m'vutalin, la sh'ririn v'la ka-yamin Nidrana la nidrey, ve-esarana la esarey, u-sh'vuatana la sh'vuot.
   All vows, oaths, and promises which we made to G-d from last Yom Kippur to this Yom Kippur and were not able to fulfill - may all such vows between ourselves and G-d be annulled. May they be void and of no effect. May we be absolved of them  and released from them. May these vows not be considered vows, these oaths not be considered oaths, and these promises not be considered promises.






 

         Shofar
   
 






  The last part of the Yom Kippur service is one long blast of the shofar. 
  
Tekia - one long blast