The Holy Heretic - Yom Kippur - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] you know the story they tell about the three progressive rabbis who meets during the high holiday season and each one is bragging and boasting about how progressive and forward-looking their temple is the first rabbi says you know in our temple we dismissed the old ancient rubbish traditions Yom Kippur comes people get hungry and therefore on their way into the temple everybody gets their way into the temple everybody gets a nice wrap some sushi a few good sandwiches so that if they get hungry in middle of the services they can have a nice gourmet meal and the second rabbi says that's ancient that's the old stuff let me tell you about our temple we are so progressive every seat has its own laptop with wireless internet so that way if you get bored in middle of the sermon if the service gets too sermon if the service gets too monotonous you can browse the Internet you can respond to emails you can check the news and so forth and the third rabbi says that's also already old fashioned we are truly progressive when it comes the high holiday season recession on Yom Kippur we put up a big sign on the beautiful door of our gorgeous temple and it reads closed for the holidays every person every the holidays every person every community prepares for the High Holidays theam Kippur Rosh Hashanah in their own unique way tonight I want to present a Talmudic story a deeply enigmatic mysterious and strange story but it will help us glean perspective on the holy help us glean perspective on the holy day of Yom Kippur this story takes us back to the second century after the Common Era and it deals with a figure who was at once both fascinating and tragic for more than the 1,000 rabbis whose names lives ideas and

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