To dispel the very misunderstood assumption by many Jews that Yom Kippur is a sad or depressing day or a day in which one should feel guilt, I strongly recommend you re-learn what Yom Kippur is about. It is in fact a very uplifting day, I am at my highest point of being on a natural spiritual high on this day. Don't believe me? Come see what it's like in a Mizrachi synagogue on Yom Kippur, it's like a party minus the food and drinks. Listen to how Charlie Harary explains it in more detail.

There is a striking Mishna at the end of Tractate Ta’anit, “Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel said, "Never were there more joyous festivals in Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, for on them the Women of Jerusalem used to go out dressed in white garments… and thus they went out and danced in the vineyards." The women would go out to the fields to find partners.

So it's time you changed your mind about Yom Kippur.

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