Voices: Reflections on Yom Kippur: The importance of admitting that people make mistakes
by Gabriella Swerling
Sep 13, 2013
2 minutes
According to biblical tradition, when Moses descended Mount Sinai to find his people had built and deified a golden calf, he shattered the Ten Commandments in anger.
Today, on , the Day of Atonement, Jewish people all around the world will be fasting and praying to God to forgive their sins, just as they did when they built the calf. It is the most sacred
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