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Yom Kippur   /jɑm kˈɪpər/   Listen
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Yom Kippur  n.  (Jewish Antiq.) The only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Also called Day of Atonement.






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"Yom kippur" Quotes from Famous Books



... says I, "and about a year from next Yom Kippur you might get a notice that your wire had been received and placed on file. Why, they're still revisin' casualty lists from the summer of 1918. If you're in any hurry about gettin' in touch ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford

... to in the morning service for Yom Kippur, where it is said He showed "the knot of the phylacteries to the ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... beans, and beans, and spuds and beans, and beans, and beans, and beans, and beans, and beans and—what was that other vegetable you gave us last night, Mess-Sergeant?—oh, yes, beans; all of them canned, with now and then, on Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Yom Kippur and Hallowe'en, a few grains of canned corn. If you want fresh vegetables, therefore, it's up to you to grow them. Unfortunate people who live in big cities are able to grow them in cute little window boxes, and thus cut down the high cost of living. Why shouldn't ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces

... 31 46 N, 35 14 E time difference: UTC2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: 1hr, begins last Friday in March; ends the Sunday between the holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur note: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



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