Yom Kippur

[theyellowhobbit]

Yom Kippur was amazing, despite the fact that they used a different tune for Marei Cohen which was slow and not happy, when Marei Cohen is supposed to be the climax of the service, and is my favorite part, except that they sorta ruined that this year. But the rest of it was amazing.

Yom Kippur is my favorite holiday. It's also currentlee's favorite holiday. adlight thinks we're both weird. We probably are. I'm not sure if there's anyone else in the world who has Yom Kippur as their favorite Jewish holiday. But at least Tisha B'Av isn't our favorite holiday. That would just be wrong.

Actually, it was also a fun Yom Kippur. Fun. Even though I was fasting and atoning, it was fun. Which seems a little wrong. Then again, it's probably not so reverent to sit in the back and spend all of services talking about how horrible the Silverman translation is, or how annoying it is when the chazzan draws things out unnecessarily, especially during ma'ariv after the holiday is over and you just want to eat and the darn thing is supposed to be said as fast as possible and what kind of crazy person sings Mi Chamocha or Aleinu when they've been fasting for 25 hours?!?!?! I might volunteer to lead that service next year just so I can ensure it will be quick. (I love how now that I'm religious and in grad school I've turned into one of those people who sits in the back and talks during services,, when I never would have gotten away with that growing up. Though we're talking about the davening. It's more like MST3King the davening. Yeah. That's what we do. And I can get away with it, since I'm always doing stuff for the minyan. And no one cares.)

But there was atoning involved somewhere in there. Actual atonement. And I also had some really good conversations last night, with cool people. And staying over at NM's was like a HRSFA sleepover party. On Yom Kippur.

And I was surprised to learn that hKC also fasts on Yom Kippur. Not that it's that hard for him to fast considering he never eats anyways. But yay for fasting HRSFen! There's also JB, who called it Atonement SIG, or rather called the breaking of the fast Atonement SIG. Whee!

Ok. Bedtime.

Comments

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

YK is one of my three favorites. Others being Sukkot and Passover. No particular order, really. Different pluses.

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

My favourite holiday is Simchat Torah, but for reasons that don't preclude me from saying that Yom Kippur is also my favourite holiday, in a very different way.

[superducky1.livejournal.com]

I feel you in the Marei Cohen part, about it being the climax of the service. Though I did always feel that it was kinda wrong to be so happy when we don't have the privilege of seeing the Avoda anymore, and in the later history of the Temple the Kohen Gadol would die every year because he wasn't worthy. The very next song in the service is about how sad we are that we don't get to see the Temple anymore, so I think Marei Cohen is supposed to be a more somber sort of reminiscing.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I guess I think of it as representing how wonderful it would have been if we had the Temple, so we're recreating that happiness as much as we can. And then you can have all the sad piyutim about the martyrs and stuff.

Though the song is about how shiny the Cohen Gadol was when he didn't die...