A Guide to Yom Kippur: Practices, Prayers, Ideas & Liturgy

Essential Reading for Yom Kippur

When we release all contingent, conditioned identities and imagine that this is our last day on earth, with nothing to hold onto, then who are we? We are unconditional purity, purpose and light. Our Divine soul is revealed.

Yom Kippur is called Shabbos Shabboson / 'the Resting of All Resting'. When we rest from giving our freedom of choice away in exchange for promises of position, wealth, beauty, status and power, we reveal what we really are: a part of the Divine, literally.

A LIGHTNESS OF BEING delves into the powerful and transformative day of Yom Kippur. Weaving together a multi-dimensional tapestry of practical, allegorical, philosophical and mystical ideas and implications, the teachings gathered herein empower us all to enter Yom Kippur and truly feel enlightened, elevated, lighter and transformed.