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I was reading different things online about Yom Kippur to see how people all over the world react to Yom Kippur. And the results are so sad as always but there is still always that silver lining. Thousands of non-Jews all over fast to empathize with their Jewish spouses. Millions prepare for the fast by eating Tarfus. It’s such a sad world. And yet, it’s such a Kiddush Hashem for what all Jews, even those otherwise entirely unaffiliated, do on Yom Kippur. We should cry that so many Jews have lost almost all of their Yiddishkeit. And we should be amazed and inspired by how much of a Yiddishe Neshama has remained through generations of intermarriage and assimilation-millions worldwide still fast on Yom Kippur.
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One year, on a different (general, not Jewish) forum, someone mentioned Yom Kippur and then ended the post with “a happy sealing”. It was so sad to see such a traditional (?) bracha watered down into that, but at the same time I can’t complain because something like that will IY”H bring someone, somewhere, back.
YEs, even I, as a little girl, being raised by a goy, was very much entrenched with the message “JEWS FAST YOM KIPPUR”. I remember asking so “Why then mommy don’t we do it?” But at least she gave me the knowledge with a firmness.
I just have to share with you all that yesterday was probablly the most holy day of my life. I felt like a malach in the sense that I went 26 hrs with out getting annoyed, frustrated, angry. I felt my head was clear, my heart was pure and my thoughts were so focused and clean. But right after the z’man I crashed back to Earth. My husband walked in the kids started kvetching, havdalah had to get done, I was kvetching back at anyone who kvetched at me. It was awful. What happened? Why can’t I maintain my sincere repentence? ach.
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Firstly, give yourself credit for reaching such spiritual heights on YO”K.
I’m wondering if you can replay the motzei YO”K scene in your mind while creating some distance:
-Replay it the way you would have liked it to play out (a known technique, even used in sports psychology to visualize a routine in advance)
-journal at night and in the morning. This usually lets out any angry/frustrated feelings concretely.
whoa am yisrael chai, you have really got a good idea! i will certainly try it. thanks.
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