The bad Jew is going to Bad Jew Hell.

[sabotabby]

I forgot to fast. o__O

However, that was a yummy cupcake, I really needed coffee, and the universe needs to atone to me, not the other way around. So there.

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[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

Dude, I went out for my birthday dinner with mom (who felt far guiltier than I did) for Thai food last night!

[sabotabby]

My mom likely didn't notice, and she always yells at me for fasting anyway. I already got a stern lecture about how scrawny I'm looking these days.

I should have mentioned dinner last night, actually. Fruit and vegetable tagine at a Palestinian restaurant, accompanied by Mill St. coffee porter. OMG YUM.

[frippy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've heard of this by now but on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had a special phone with a Star of David place prominently on his desk, a phone through which Jewish people could call in and apologize to him.

The phone rang "Hava Nagila."

[sabotabby]

I heard, but I have yet to see one of these clips. I'd be on speaking terms with Colbert if I had the opportunity—I'm not on speaking terms with Yahweh.

Also, that's awesome.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I was going to tell her that.

When Jon Stewart called in it was priceless.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

I am so out of it, my first thought was "why is she fasting for Ramadan? ... Oh."

Fasting, fasting pussycat! Kill kill!

[sabotabby]

I've been known to participate in Eid al-Fitr feasts, but without the Ramadan fasting. So maybe I can go to Muslim Hell too.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

There's no working on Yom Kippur, right?

[sabotabby]

Who says I'm working? ;)

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

I don't know a lot about Judaism, but I think they have no such thing as Jew Hell so I think you're in the clear. Eat away, eat away.

[sabotabby]

My granny is probably rolling in her grave, though.

At any rate, there's a health exception. And I'm not very healthy right now, and thus need to eat. We'll go with that excuse.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Right on!

[sabotabby]

:D I am being cheeky this year.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

I "forgot" to fast. I was talking to my mom about the high holidays. I was always curious how if we don't believe in Hell, we need to atone. She decided that it was the right thing to do, and there could still be problems on earth if we weren't in good with God. Is that right? Anyway, if you're a Bad Jew, I'm the worst. ;)

Good Yontif!

/I liked your last 'toon.:)

[sabotabby]

I don't believe in God, but I believe, in general, in atonement. I think it's best to do it immediately after the fact, and to the person whom one has wronged, but I usually observe Yom Kippur to cover all my bases. But there's been so much crap in my life lately that I actually did forget this year—for the first time in about seven years. Go me.

And thanks!

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I think the idea of atoning without hellfire hanging over our heads is exactly what saves Judaism from being quite as banal and steeped in infantile morality as Certain Other Religions. You atone because you've done wrong and the world is better if we acknowledge our fallibility, not because daddy's going to whip you when he gets home.

I like to hope I practice this in some practical way, though the chicken bhuna I just devoured attests to my lack of religious observance.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

In Judaism there is no eternal hell, but there is a temporary punishment for bad things you actually did called Gehenom. In literalist interpretations it's like a purgatory suffering type thing.

In the Kaballic interpretation, basically you know instantly upon death if you lived wlel or not, and if you didn't, you suffer because you realize you did not and you are not one with God and all other beings. But, eventually even if you are separate at first, you fade into nonexistence and oneness eventually anyhow.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping there's some loophole whereby my delicious Indian lunch counts as fasting. You never know...that god fella has some tricks up his sleeve.

[sabotabby]

I think He makes exceptions for Indian food. Because yum.

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

I was just talking to Yoni, and he says he's going to be a bad jew next year. ;)

[sabotabby]

He wasn't a bad Jew this year? :(

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

[spouse] and I are not fasting, but we have a religiously valid excuse, as we're both sick. Not that either of us is religious, but she does sometimes fast anyhow.

I have a new definition of hell: Driving down the New York State Thruway with a sore throat and a congested upper respiratory system, all eight hours from Montreal to New York.

[sabotabby]

Oh my. I realized awhile ago that the bus is not a good way to go to New York, but the one time I drove back wasn't bad. Of course, I wasn't sick at the time.

Feel better soon!

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

Do I go to Bad Honorary Jew Hell for supplying said cupcake?

[sabotabby]

I think you're an accomplice. It's as though you made the handbasket.