In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...
Find today’s readings here. Props to the people of Nineveh. Here was a notoriously wicked city, a city that Jonah, famously, wanted nothing to do with. But when the word of God reached them, calling ...
Why do we read the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur? Commentators — predictably — differ. But I believe one crucial reason is because of the book’s warning against dehumanizing others in the course of ...
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