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Yom Kippur was sundown friday through sundown saturday. We attended the majority of services. It was a profound experience for me. I wanted to be able to communicate the profundity to others, and I realized that it hass three parts. 1) My emotions were heightened and intensified 2) My experience of the world became more emotional. 3) I received guidance as to how to improve my world.
One might wonder how the ritual could lead my experience of the world to become more emotional. It gave me opportunity and direction to render insubstantial the many obstacles to this emotional experience. I had committed the time to make the effort. I had prayers which expressed this experience on the page before me. I saw abstractly that the objects of prayer were worthy of these sentiments, but never before could I give myself over to it in this true and powerful a way. There were some things I could not praise. For example, when it came to praising God, I preferred to praise his creation instead. The know the former less well than I know the latter.
The joy and the pain of the liturgy still flow and grow and do their work in my mind and heart. I wonder what transformations were wrought?
One might wonder how the ritual could lead my experience of the world to become more emotional. It gave me opportunity and direction to render insubstantial the many obstacles to this emotional experience. I had committed the time to make the effort. I had prayers which expressed this experience on the page before me. I saw abstractly that the objects of prayer were worthy of these sentiments, but never before could I give myself over to it in this true and powerful a way. There were some things I could not praise. For example, when it came to praising God, I preferred to praise his creation instead. The know the former less well than I know the latter.
The joy and the pain of the liturgy still flow and grow and do their work in my mind and heart. I wonder what transformations were wrought?