Atonement, please?

[sabotabby]

Is it sundown yet? I haven't looked forward to Yom Kippur this much in years.

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[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

Why?

I don't understand all these holidays.

[sabotabby]

1) I really have to force myself to eat these days. On Yom Kippur, no one will expect me to eat or raise an eyebrow when I don't. Yahweh is my thinspiration.

2) I feel like I have a lot to atone for (no specifics, as this is a public post). The timing couldn't be better.

3) Since I'm not remotely religious, I'm going to a concert tonight and I'll be hanging out with someone who's probably fasting for Ramadan. Which is so much more of a pain in the ass when you think about it.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

It's sundown somewhere.

[sabotabby]

Eh, it's dark. I'm hittin' it.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

You are going to to the feast part, afterwards, right?

If you don't I'm coming over to make latkes, and bringing the peanut oil with me, young lady.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... Latkes...

[sabotabby]

Far be it from me to refuse latkes.

I have peanut oil, actually. And cinnamon. In powder form this time.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Having to chew up the cinnamon in order to sprinkle it on stuff is just a bit much, eh?

[sabotabby]

It's also kind of gooey.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

My friend starfall18 is also looking forward to it!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/starfall18/155453.html

[sabotabby]

Ah, but she is going to services. I am just not eating. ;)

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Not eating? Then what are the latkes for? Sounds kinda' Ramadamish.

Forgive my ignorance. I only went to my first seder about two years ago.

[sabotabby]

Well, you only fast for 25 hours. Ramadan is far more hardcore.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

It is, in a way. But you can eat. I normally function on two meals like that anyhow.

Of course I had a Muslim student from Ethiopia once who did not eat breakfast during Ramadan (her choice, nothing mandated about it, she could have gotten up early enough). She could not function all day at school.

[sabotabby]

I've known a few people who preferred hunger to rising early. Can't say I blame them, and normally I only eat one meal, maybe two a day. But that meal is almost always lunch, and I can't stand sitting and watching other people eat.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Latkes are for Chanukah.

They aren't a traditional break the fast food.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know they're the wrong kind of food, but they're yummy and I know how to make them, and in my family we have lasagne for Christmas, too.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Oh I wasn't saying it was forbidden to eat them, I was explaining that they weren't traditional to someone who didn't know about Yom Kippur.

I really don't care about Christmas, so long as it stays out of my way ;).

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

Atone enota!

[sabotabby]

I am dumb. What means enota?

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

it's a very simple palindrome that means absolutely nothing ;)
tis a sin oh! time emit... hon is a sit

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

by the way, your icons make me drool. In a good way. but I'm sure you hear that all the time

[sabotabby]

Heh. I really am super-dumb today.

I am an icon addict. I almost orgasmed when LJ introduced the option of 100 icons. Sometimes my life is very sad.

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

so is mine. In fact my life may be even sadder considering that I'll probably get a paid account now simply because of the fact that you've made me jealous.
But palindromes make me happy.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

[sabotabby]

Damn. That's hypnotic.

The holiday where we bake Christian babies into matzoh is another one, though.

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

Christain babies are crunchy. Very high in calories though.

[sabotabby]

That's why we eat 'em only on special occasions.

[theyuck.livejournal.com]

ha! Your icon just made me choke on my holy sacrament. Need some more of that blood of christ to wash the damn body down.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

my parents and my friend Nat (she was with me at the bookfair in Montreal) play volleyball in a jewish community centre in Ottawa and they've got a few weeks where they can't play because of holidays that we aren't familliar with because we're all raised christian. I guess it's a good thing that they played yesterday otherwise they might not have been able to get a game in tonight or tomorrow.

I honestly had no idea what Yom Kippur was all about and decided to look it up. I thought of fasting as some kind of one-person cultural experience, but I don't have that much will power and lunch is usually the highlight of my day.

[sabotabby]

I can go without eating. Even with people eating lunch in front of me, I could probably not eat for about 48 hours before I'd seriously care about it.

The lack of coffee is killing me, though.

Yeah, the JCC, where I go to the gym, is closed for holidays even I haven't heard of. It is very annoying, as I think they're also closed for the Christian ones.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

I had the neatest experience on Yom Kippur evening. I've never really been to a synagogue on Yom Kippur (maybe when I was very little? actually, I probably have, but can't remember). Anyway, there's this tiny orthodox mostly-Moroccan synagogue two minutes walk from where I live, and my landlady wanted me to come with her. It was actually really beautiful, the singing of the prayers. It reminded me of a combination of gospel music (cause of the way people broke out and tried to outdo each other w/ their voices, maybe), tajweed, the call to prayer in Egypt and Palestine, and the way Egyptian friends would chant Baha'i prayers. It was just gorgeous. I'm considering going more often just to learn how to sing like them.

[sabotabby]

That sounds awesome. About the closest I've ever had to religious experiences involve music or chanting of some sort. My family was never very big on it (they didn't even sing during seders) so I never grew up with that aspect of it.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Atonement? If you have done anything to atone for, you certainly haven't mentioned it here.

[sabotabby]

It's in the locked posts. ;)