Yom Kippur, 24 September

Sep 24, 2023

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(200925) -- ASHDOD, Sept. 25, 2020 -- An Ultra-Orthodox Jew performs the Tashlich ritual ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, on Sept. 24, 2020. ( JINI via Xinhua) ISRAEL-ASHDOD-TASHLICH RITUAL IlanxAssayag
Yom Kippur. Close up of calendar displaying Yom Kippur. Copyright: xiofotox 41612
Believers Jews, Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
(191008) -- ASHDOD, Oct. 8, 2019 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Tashlich ritual on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Ashdod, Israel on Oct. 7, 2019, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua) ISRAEL-ASHDOD-ORTHODOX JEWS-TASHLICH RITUAL guoyu
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth holds chickens for the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, in Jerusalem, Monday, October 7, 2019. The Jewish ritual of Kaparot symbolically transfers the sin from the past year to the chicken and is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year. Yom Kippur begins at sunset on October 8, when Jews will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, bathing, or having sex for nearly 26 hours. JER2019100708 DEBBIExHILL
(191007) -- BEIT SHEMESH, Oct. 7, 2019 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kaparot ritual, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Oct. 6, 2019. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua) ISRAEL-BEIT SHEMESH-KAPAROT GuoxYu
(191007) -- BEIT SHEMESH, Oct. 7, 2019 -- An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man performs the Kaparot ritual, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Oct. 6, 2019. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua) ISRAEL-BEIT SHEMESH-KAPAROT GuoxYu
September 26, 2019, Givat Zeev, Israel: YEHIEL RATSABI, 74, blows a shofar, an ancient musical horn made of a ram s horn and used for Jewish religious purposes, at the Jerusalem Shofars workshop. The workshop now works at full capacity to meet peaking demand ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur. Givat Zeev Israel - ZUMAa126 20190926_zap_a126_001 Copyright: xNirxAlonx
September 26, 2019, Givat Zeev, Israel: Stacks of shofars are offered for sale at the Jerusalem Shofars workshop. The shofar is an ancient musical horn made of a ram s horn and used for Jewish religious purposes. The workshop now works at full capacity to meet peaking demand ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur. Givat Zeev Israel - ZUMAa126 20190926_zap_a126_013 Copyright: xNirxAlonx
Jews celebrate Shabbat on Friday evening 19 07 19 in a room in Frankfurt am Main Photo v l The seven-armed candlestick Menorah and covered bread and grape juice with which the meeting will end The believers Copyright: epd-bild HeikexLyding EDITORIAL USE ONLY
Ultra-Orthodox Jews examine a chicken before performing the Kaparot ritual before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in the religious neighborhood Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 28, 2017. Religious Jews believe the ritual transfers their sins from the past year to the chicken, which is then slaughtered and given to the poor. Kaparot is performed before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, which begins at sunset Friday, September 29. JER2017092819 DEBBIExHILL
Ultra-orthodoxe Juden beten am Mittelmeer vor Yom Kippur (161010) -- TEL AVIV (ISRAEL), Oct. 09, 2016 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray as they take part in Tashlich on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 9, 2016. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed ahead of the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day of the Jewish calendar. ) (wtc) ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-TASHLICH GilxCohenxMagen
Oct. 2, 2014 - Netanya, Israel - Ultra Orthodox Jews from the Tzanz Hassidic group pray during the Tashlich or Tashlikh ceremony. Tashlich, Hebrew for Casting-Off is a Jewish practice preformed before the holyday of Yom Kippur near a large water source, in which one s sins are being thrown away symbolically by emptying pockets from pieces of bread, and tossing them to the water. - ZUMAm13
JERUSALEM, Sept. 23, 2015 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray at the Western Wall during Yom Kippur in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Sept. 23, 2015. Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, fell from sunset of Sept. 22 to sunset of Sept. 23 this year. Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. ) MIDEAST-JERUSALEM-JEWISH-YOM KIPPUR LixRui
AKTUELLES ZEITGESCHEHEN Kapparot - Hühnerschwenken am Vorabend des Versöhnnungstages An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his head during the Kaparot ceremony in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, on September 21, 2015. The Jewish ritual is supposed to transfer the sins of the past year to the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which this year falls on September 22 Nir Keidar
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy holds a chicken that will be used in the Kaparot ritual before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 20, 2015. Jews recite prayers in the Kaparot ritual while swinging a live chicken over their heads to symbolically transfer their sins for the year to the chicken, which is butchered, eaten or donated to charity. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, begins at sundown September 22, when the entire country will come to a standstill as Jews pray, fast and refrain from smoking and sex. JER2015092007 DEBBIExHILL
An Ultra-Orthodox Jew selects a chicken for the Kaparot ritual performed before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 20, 2015. Jews recite prayers in the Kaparot ritual while swinging a live chicken over their heads to symbolically transfer their sins for the year to the chicken, which is butchered, eaten or donated to charity. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, begins at sundown September 22, when the entire country will come to a standstill as Jews pray, fast and refrain from smoking and sex. JER2015092005 DEBBIExHILL
(141001) -- JERUSALEM, Oct. 1, 2014 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jews swing a white chicken over their head as they read a prayer in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Oct. 1, 2014, as part of the traditional Kaparot ceremony before the Judaism s holiest day, Yom Kippur. Kaparot is an ancient and mystical custom connected to the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, and can be performed anytime between Rosh HaShana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur.) MIDEAST-JERUSALEM-YOM KIPPUR GilxCohenxMagen
Gebet an der Klagemauer in Jerusalem zu Beginn des jüdischen Neujahrsfestes Rosch Haschana am Freitagabend (18.9.2009). Weltweit feiern Juden am Samstag und Sonntag das Neujahrsfest Rosch Haschana ( Haupt des Jahres ). Das zweitägige Fest beginnt bereits am Freitagabend, dem Vorabend des ersten Tages des jüdischen Monats Tischri. Damit begrüßen die Juden das Jahr 5770 nach der Erschaffung der Welt. Die vorherrschende Farbe in der Synagoge und der Kleidung ist weiss. Nach der Überlieferung wird wird am Rosch Haschana das Buch des Lebens aufgeschlagen und ein Urteil über den Lebenswandel des Menschen geschrieben. Die folgenden zehn Tage, die zehn Jamim Noraim (Hebräisch ehrfurchtsvollen Tage ), dienen der tätigen Reue, Versöhnung und Umkehr: Streitigkeiten und Unfrieden sollen beseitigt, schlechtes Verhalten und schlechte Gedanken bereut werden. Die Zehn Bußtage enden mit Yom Kippur, de 325427 EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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(200925) -- ASHDOD, Sept. 25, 2020 -- An Ultra-Orthodox Jew performs the Tashlich ritual ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, on Sept. 24, 2020. ( JINI via Xinhua) ISRAEL-ASHDOD-TASHLICH RITUAL IlanxAssayag

Yom Kippur. Close up of calendar displaying Yom Kippur. Copyright: xiofotox 41612

Believers Jews, Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel

(191008) -- ASHDOD, Oct. 8, 2019 -- Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Tashlich ritual on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Ashdod, Israel on Oct. 7, 2019, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua) ISRAEL-ASHDOD-ORTHODOX JEWS-TASHLICH RITUAL guoyu

Jews celebrate Shabbat on Friday evening 19 07 19 in a room in Frankfurt am Main Photo v l The seven-armed candlestick Menorah and covered bread and grape juice with which the meeting will end The believers Copyright: epd-bild HeikexLyding EDITORIAL USE ONLY