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Article: BETWEEN THE LINES; Growing Up With Yom Kippur
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- The Jewish Week
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- October 3, 2003
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Rosenblatt, Gary
The Jewish Week
10-03-2003
I used to dread Yom Kippur. The best thing about it, I would think as the
Day of Judgment approached, was that at least next Yom Kippur was a full
year away. That's changed over the years, but my Yom Kippur memories are as
vivid as they are evolving.
As a kid, I loved the communal singing of Kol Nidre and was amazed to see
our small-town shul, where my father was the rabbi, miraculously filled to
capacity like no other time of the year. But the service seemed endless,
and by the time we got home, with about 21 hours still to go, I was dry of
mouth and incredibly thirsty. Fasting the full 25 hours or so, I concluded,
was simply impossible.
That changed when ...