Yom Kippur Graphics Wrap-Up

[surrealestate]

Before I post the larger array of Sukkot-related shots, a few Yom Kippur graphics to get you warmed up!

First, Finale's e-blast from September 15. In particular, take note of the bit in the middle, and perhaps scratch your head, as many apparently did.

They followed up shortly thereafter with this one. Gotta love it. [FYI, those graphics are directly from Finale's web site but am linking to my copies just in case.]

Contrast that to a flyer I snapped a shot of yesterday in Brooklyn. (Hm, if you're wearing an icepack on your head, does that mean you don't technically need a kippah?)

Comments

[ron_newman]

Remember this?

Dear Evite Newsletter Subscriber,

In addition, we also wish to apologize for having listed Yom Kippur as one of our ''Reasons To Party.'' We understand and respect that Yom Kippur is a Day of Atonement, a day to be taken seriously to reflect and fast, and as such, one of the most important Jewish holidays in the year.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

*laughcoughchoke*

I had forgotten.

[ron_newman]

Some folks still haven't gotten the message.

[gilana]

That's awesome.

But where on earth is the single asterisk? I only see a double one, and it's kind of driving me crazy. (A short trip, I'll agree.)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's to go along with the double exclamations and triple question marks. At least there were no ellipses...

[tober.livejournal.com]

1. Thank you for bringing the lulz, I needed that.

2. I wonder what makes the advertised headache remedies halachically acceptable, assuming that, ordinarily, such pills would not be. Ponderous.

[ron_newman]

they're time-release -- you take them before the holiday starts.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

sort of reminds me of how during Ramadan the majority of observing muslims *gain* weight, mainly from waking up before sunrise to gorge themselves, then gorging again that evening. granted a month is a crazy long time to observe any such thing, but still. It sort of defeats the purpose, in my mind. You're not actually giving anything up or technically really fasting. You're just shifting your schedule around.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

If you think taking a time-release pain reliever before a 25-hour fast is like not giving anything up, I suspect you haven't tried it too many times. :)

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

When I was in Afghanistan for 5 weeks, I arrive the day Ramadan began. I left 2 days after it ended. I observed it fully the whole time, not always by choice, but I thought it would be an interesting experience :)

I was also fairly devout catholic growing up, so we did a fair number of fasts. My catholic upbringing, in fact, is probably why I feel doing anything to make a fast easier is cheating :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Ramadan is a different kind of fasting, though, as is Catholic fasting as I understand it (though I'm less familiar with it).

The YK fast is 25 hours of nothing: no food, no water, no bathing, etc. (But as Pasta noted below, it's still not about being forced to suffer -- we're not Catholic. ;) Partial fasts like Ramadan and Catholic fasting (as I understand it) are much easier, imho.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

I once had a fairly devout Catholic roommate, when he came back from Ash Wednesday, I wasn't sure what the proper response was, so I gave the closest to what we would say in Judaism "May you have an easy lent." I was quickly informed that this was *NOT* the point of lent, and that that was not the correct thing to say...

Also, yeah, as Jude said, Catholic fasts and Jewish fasts are totally different kettles of fish.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected and educated :)

I'm also hungry.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

and in any case, the point of the Yom Kippur fast isn't to give something up (at least in my understanding) it's more of a "You should be praying all day, not eating" It's not like lent.

The proper thing to say for Yom Kippur is "May you have an easy fast." the point isn't to make it as difficult as possible...