Dear GOP, try to stop gun violence before you bug G-d with thoughts and prayers

Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur are the most holy days on the Jewish calendar. They are critical for observant Jews like me: They are our best chance to get right before G-d. They are our chance to ask for forgiveness and, if we are true and G-d sees our genuine desire to repent and change our ways, we can be absolved. We fast on Yom Kippur, but the feeling of relief at the end has little to do with eating for the first time in 24 hours; the relief is that of shedding a year’s worth of sins.

Here’s the tricky part of Yom Kippur, however. In Jewish tradition, as Chabad puts it, “on Yom Kippur, G-d mercifully erases all the sins we have committed ‘before G-d’ — but not the sins we may have committed against our fellow man. If we really want to come out of this holy day completely clean, we need to first approach any individual whom we have wronged and beg their forgiveness.”


Source : usatoday