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Monday, February 20, 2006
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TEN DAYS OF AWE/REPENTANCE
The 10 days from Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, to Yom Kippur, the Day of
Atonement, are called the Days of Awe (Yamim Nora’im) or the Days of
Repentance (Yemei Tshuvah).
On these days, God opens the “gates of heaven” giving mankind a chance to
repent. The gates close again for another year with the final prayer of Yom
Kippur. Anyone who has sincerely repented of his sin and has said the slihot
(prayers for forgiveness) early in the morning to the blowing of the shofar
(ram’s horn) will be inscribed by God in the Book of Life.
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