The enigma of Yom Kippur: It is a courtroom decked in white, a fast day and a
festival, the holiest day of the year but also a time that is beyond holiness.
It is day designated for repentance, but also a place in which the very concept of
"sin" is non-existent. It occurs once a year, but it is also the "one of the
year" -- the singular essence of the year's every day.
If we cannot explain Yom Kippur, let's talk about it -- in the eighteen stories and essays assembled here.
Insights:
Day One
by Yanki Tauber
How to Change the Past
by Yanki Tauber
At-onement
by Tzvi Freeman
Vistas
by Jay Litvin
Stories:
Kano
by David Ben-Dor
The Paper Chicken
Rabbi S. Y. Zevin
Forgiveness
by Jay Litvin
Kol Nidrei
by Yanki Tauber
The Yom Kippur Drunk
by Yanki Tauber
The Cantonists' Minyan
by Tuvia Bolton
The Shofar and the Wall
by Moshe Tzvi Segal
My Father's Machzor
by Zusha Greenberg
Essays:
The 120-Day Version of the Human Story
from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Dynamics of Teshuvah
by J. Emmanuel Shochet
The Four Meanings of Sin
from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Reverse Biology
from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Three Mistranslations
from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Uncle Irv
by Jay Litvin
