{"id":6096,"date":"2022-10-02T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zydzi-trzemeszno.pl\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T12:22:22","slug":"jom-kipur-i-trzy-ksiegi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zydzi-trzemeszno.pl\/en\/tradycja-i-kultura\/swieta\/jom-kipur-i-trzy-ksiegi\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Kippur and the three books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yom Kippur is called one of the most important and solemn Jewish holidays. It is celebrated on the 10th day of the first month of the civil calendar (Tishri), and its name translates as Day of Atonement, Day of Repentance or Day of Propitiation (also erroneously referred to as Judgment Day). Due to its exceptionally solemn nature, it is also referred to as the Saturday of Saturdays and the Shabbat of Shabbats. Yom Kippur concludes the period of the Ten Days of Repentance, which begins on Rosh ha-Shanah.<\/p>

Its origins seem interesting, since according to biblical tradition, Yom Kippur is one of the holidays included in the cycle established by Moses himself, with it being the only fast which is commanded to be observed directly in the Torah (Leviticus<\/em>\u00a0 16, 1-34).<\/p>

According to tradition, on this day Moses descended from Mount Sinai, and as a sign of forgiveness to the Israelites for the sin of idolatry they had committed by worshipping the golden calf, he gave them stone tablets. On the other hand, in the days of the Jerusalem Temple, on the tenth day of Tishri, the high priest symbolically transferred the guilt of the Israelites to a chosen scapegoat, after which he pushed it down from a high rock or drove it into the desert \u201cto Azazel,\u201d thus performing a ritual cleansing of the entire people of Israel from their sins. We will return a bit later to the belief that sin can be transferred.<\/p>

In Ksi\u0119ga \u015bwi\u0105t i obyczaj\u00f3w \u017cydowskich [The Book of Jewish Festivals and Customs]<\/em> we read: On that day, the Lord decided the fate of all those about whom He still had some doubt on Rosh ha-Shanah and recorded them in the books of life or death\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a>Mieczys\u0142aw Siemie\u0144ski, Ksi\u0119ga \u015bwi\u0105t i obyczaj\u00f3w \u017cydowskich [The Book of Jewish Festivals and Customs]<\/em>, Warsaw 1993, p. 63.<\/span><\/span>