A Day Of Atonement – Yom Kippur

Good evening everyone…

I have started my fast for Yom Kippur as I make my way back home to Coronado from Toronto.

For Jewish people like me, it is the holiest day of the year.

I do not go to synagogue and pray, but I love the idea of having a day of atonement and repentance to clean the slate for the next year.

By sundown tomorrow I will be sinning again!

I was born in 1965 and it is impossible to forget Yom Kippur. In 1973, Egypt and Syria started a war with Israel on Yom Kippur. The holy day is etched in my brain.

As a kid I dreaded Yom Kippur because it meant wearing a suit, spending the day praying and being bored and hungry.

If you ask enough progressives, I have probably sinned this year, but I have not had a tweet ‘community noted’.

I spent the last couple days with some of my best and oldest friends in Muskoka after spending a couple days in Toronto with my sister Fern visiting my mom.

Life is moving very fast as I get older.

I am excited to get through Yom Kippur tomorrow and break the fast with Ellen and friends in San Diego.

To my jewish friends…have an easy fast.