In Honor of Yom Kippur - Post Your Sins!
In Honor of Yom Kippur - Post Your Sins!
#0In Honor of Yom Kippur - Post Your Sins!
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:40pm
Post your sins for which you will repent!
Gossip
Hurting people
Hurting myself
Sexual thoughts (Did I just post that?)
How about you all?
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#1re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:42pmSampling grapes in the store, gossiping, staying in bed this morning rather than going to synagogue..........I am sure I will come up with more.
#2re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:43pmSqueezing people's tushies!
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#3re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:44pmTaking the name of Idina in vain.
#4re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:45pmI'm sure I'll come up with more, but the biggest one is absolutely that I've caused pain to people I love.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#6re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:00pmMy list, as always, is a depressing doozy. And this year I can't go to temple because of school.
#7re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:06pm
I am going to answer this question by posting verbatim what I confessed to the Altar Boyz:
I eat too many Raspberry Milano cookies. The only way to remedy this sin is to have Abraham's babies. NOW!
#8re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:15pm
I eat too much.
I got mad at my Jewish mother when she thought she was just doing the right thing.
I eat too much.
I'm not Jewish.
I eat too much.
I have impure thoughts about a certain Broadway star.
I eat too much.
#9re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:18pmMe either, Plum.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:42pmI'm not Jewish so I have to ask, is that what you do in Temple on Yom Kippur--announce your individual sins to the rest of the congregation?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:46pmIf you've confessed your sins at ALTAR BOYZ, do you have to do it at Yom Kippur? I mean, I'm sure God gets tired of hearning about my carnal feelings for CM2...Maybe He shares those same feelings. It's hard to tell.
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#12re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 9:03pm
Jose~ It's more that everyone recites communal sins and we ound our hearts, and then there is time for individual meditation. It's really quite moving.
Hmmm, my sins? I guess they would have to be:
Being disrespectful to my parents
Being mean to my sister sometimes
Spending too much time on this site... 
Not giving enough tzedakah
*sigh* There's more, I'm just too lazy too post them.
Oh yeah, laziness.
Wishes come true, not free.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 9:04pmCarnal thoughts about CM2.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 10:21pmCarnal thoughts about CM2.
#17re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 10:55pm
Liotte! You are perfect!
Should I repent for drinking?
#19re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:13pm
You're not a horrible person.
We all sin. However, if you ask my 2nd graders, "I didn't do anything worng this year!"
#20re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:37pm
I have impure thoughts about Broadway Boys a-plenty. Every member of ABz, and Adam Pascal, and just ... the list continues.
Gossiping.
Keeping a Christian girl as a chotchke. Or however it's spelled.
Wanting too much Gefilte fish for my own well being.
Looking forward to Yom Kippur so I can have challah french toast.
#21re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:38pm
"Looking forward to Yom Kippur so I can have challah french toast."
Wow...that's a good one!
#22re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:22am
Jose'--in answer to your question, the "Kol Nidre" prayer, which is sung the night before Yom Kippur, is an extraordinary piece of liturgical music. The title means "All Vows" and the prayer asks God for forgiveness for failing to fulfill promises made to Him. But it came to be misconstrued as absolving all responsibility in all vows, which is not the case.
The prayer took on great meaning during the Inquisition, when Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Christianity but maintained their Jewish faith secretly. These "Conversos" had much in common with contemporary lesbian and gay Jews, who often have to hide their true identites from their families and religious communities. The "Kol Nidre" prayer released the Conversos from whatever vows they had made to Christian authorities, and it has come to have great significance for gay and lesbian Jews dealing with the closet.
The composer Max Bruch (who was not Jewish) created the most famous setting, for cello and orchestra, but Arnold Schoenberg completed a haunting version in 1938, just a few weeks before Kristallnacht.
#23re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:26amPal Joey, thanks for this education. It means so much more to me now.
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#24re: In Honor of Yom Kippur
Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:41amWe read a series of prayers called Al Chet several times during the Yom Kippur service. It lists every possible sin. Sometimes I like to add some of my own such as deystroying our environment , etc. The sins are fairly common: gluttony, excessive pride, scorning one's parents, disobeying a teacher, etc. We all read everyone of them out loud as a community. We then ask G-d for forgiveness and atonement.
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