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Yom Kippur - No Jew Left Behind: The Yom Kippur that Ronnie Greenwald z"l Spent in the Lobby
Right before Kol Nidrei, we make a startling declaration: we permit ourselves to daven together with the transgressors. Chazal go even further and teach that a communal fast without the sinners of Israel is not considered a true fast.
Why?
Because Yom Kippur is not meant to become a private religious experience. The Navi Yeshayahu tells us that if our fasting causes us to turn inward and stop seeing the hungry, the wandering, and the broken, then we have misunderstood what the day is supposed to accomplish.
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the deeper meaning of Yom…
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