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Two ivory goats facing opposite directions in an indigo wilderness, illustrated in a woodcut style

Yom Kippur: Once for All

Two goats, a scarlet thread, and a High Priest who went in once and never had to go back

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Full guide: 12 min · 7 chapters · 24 Hebrew words

For twenty-five hours, Israel goes quiet. Traffic all but disappears. The airport closes, television and radio stations go off the air, and children ride bicycles along highways usually packed with cars. Many people fast and dress in white. Synagogues that are half empty on an ordinary day struggle to seat everyone who comes.

This is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year and the last of the ten days that began with the ram's horn of Rosh HaShanah.

The chapters

  1. Yom Kippur: Once for All
  2. 1. The Tenth Day
  3. 2. Two Goats
  4. 3. Forty Years
  5. 4. Our Father, Our King
  6. 5. The Sign of Jonah
  7. 6. When the Gate Closes

Hebrew in this guide

yom kippurיוֹם כִּפּוּר rosh hashanahרֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה yeshuaיֵשׁוּעַ torahתּוֹרָה sukkotסֻכּוֹת kaparahכַּפָּרָה tzomצוֹם gmar chatimah tovahגְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה aseret yemei teshuvahעֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה teshuvaתְּשׁוּבָה kohen gadolכֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל kodesh hakodashimקֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים kapporetכַּפֹּרֶת azazelעֲזָאזֵל mishnahמִשְׁנָה talmudתַּלְמוּד viduiוִדּוּי avinu malkeinuאָבִינוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ tashlichתַּשְׁלִיךְ neilahנְעִילָה shemaשְׁמַע tekiahתְּקִיעָה shofarשׁוֹפָר yerushalayimיְרוּשָׁלַיִם

Scripture it opens

Leviticus 23:27-28 Leviticus 16:2-4 Isaiah 1:18 Isaiah 58:6-7 Leviticus 16:8 Leviticus 16:21-22 Psalm 103:12 Hebrews 9:11-12 Hebrews 10:1-4 Hebrews 10:11-12 Matthew 27:51 Matthew 6:12 1 John 1:9 Jonah 3:7-8 Jonah 4:11 Micah 7:18-19 Matthew 12:39-41 Jonah 2:9 1 Kings 18:39 Hebrews 10:19-22 Hebrews 9:12

How it reads in the app

The same guide, opened in IsraelForYou: tap any Hebrew word and its meaning rises from below, with the verses it lives in.

Two ivory goats facing opposite directions in an indigo wilderness, illustrated in a woodcut style Yom Kippur: Once for All

For twenty-five hours, Israel goes quiet. Traffic all but disappears. The airport closes, television and radio stations go off the air, and children ride bicycles along highways usually packed with cars. Many people fast and dress in white. Synagogues that are half empty on an ordinary day struggle to seat everyone who comes.

This is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year and the last of the ten days that began with the ram's horn of Rosh HaShanah.

Christians have good reason to understand this day. The letter to the Hebrews draws on Leviticus 16, which describes its rituals, to explain what Yeshua did. It raises a question every believer has to answer sooner or later: what does it cost for a sinner to stand before a holy God, and who pays it?

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