{"id":2930,"date":"2011-10-07T23:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2011-10-07T23:33:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:33:35","slug":"friday-night-erev-yom-kippur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/10\/07\/friday-night-erev-yom-kippur-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; erev yom kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is Erev Yom Kippur.. the night before the holiest day of the jewish calendar.. most years in the past I would have spent it in temple chanting\u00a0 in a language I barly know.. considering my own shortcomings for the year past.. That doesn&#8217;t make as much sense to me these days as it used to.. Oh.. I still have the shortcomings.. but I think I prefer to think of them myself.. in a language I clearly understand..<\/p>\n<p>Instead of\u00a0 chanting in <em>shul<\/em> .. we served dinner to 21 folks\u00a0 most of whom are staying in our house tonight. Max brought 11 of his friends in from NY (they rented a van).. and the Townsends are back from Canada..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5832.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5833.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5834.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5838.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mom brought her dad&#8217;s military band uniform for Max.. here are Max and Gabe trying on their great grandfathers uniform.. so cool.. though I never met him (his name was Max, too) .. I now Iknow how big he was (not very)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5845.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5846.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5850.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5851.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5854.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>even grand\u00a0 doggie Reptar coem up from NY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct0711\/IMG_5852.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s such a blessing having my family here and friends\u00a0 in the house.. it&#8217;s a religious experience in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>TOmorrow I&#8217;ll fast as will everyone in my culture.. then another feat tomorrow.. I&#8217;ll try to make some time to consider those sins.. I&#8217;m sure I have some worth considering..\u00a0 It&#8217;s the day when you ask forgivenss\u00a0 for those sins.. you ask forgiveness of your self .. and of those you may have wronged..<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve done anything to offend any of you this past year.. I apologize..<\/p>\n<p>next week starts the new year.. time for a new and better start..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is Erev Yom Kippur.. the night before the holiest day of the jewish calendar.. most years in the past I would have spent it in temple chanting\u00a0 in a language I barly know.. considering my own shortcomings for the year past.. That doesn&#8217;t make as much sense to me these days as it used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/10\/07\/friday-night-erev-yom-kippur-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; erev yom kippur<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-erev-yom-kippur"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}