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Yoni Goldstein: If your Jewish friends seem depressed on Yom Kippur, this is why


 Oct 6, 2011 – 9:00 AM ET

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Rosh Hashanah, the new-year celebration that Jews observed last week, is a time for serious reflection. Yom Kippur, on the other hand, is a day of psychic terror.

This Saturday, the destiny of every person will be indelibly stamped for the next year. It is zero-hour: Either you will be marked to live or you will be marked to die.
Among the liturgy of Yom Kippur, there is no more terrifying prayer than the Unetaneh Tokef. It is the centrepiece of the day, a blunt reminder of man’s evanescence. “Like a shepherd pasturing his flock, making sheep pass under his staff, so shall [God] calculate and consider the soul of all the living Read More...