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About an hour ago, the sun set, not that anyone here in Seattle would have known the difference in today's unusually stereotypical weather. This marked the start of Yom Kippur, for which I will be fasting until sunset tomorrow ( Read more... )

Well, the fiery sunset this evening ushered in the Jewish New Year, 5771. There are a lot of customs associated with this, of which I've only ever kept a few.

( the ones I do at least some years )

There is apparently a Shofar application for the iPhone. The catch? The days on which a Shofar is traditionally blown are days on which one's not supposed to use electricity....

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