Repentance
Good and upright is the Lord because He instructs sinners in the way (Psalm 25:8). When Wisdom is asked, “The sinner—what is to be his punishment?” Wisdom answers: Evil pursues sinners (Proverbs 13:21). When Prophecy is asked, “The sinner—what is to be his punishment?” Prophecy replies: The soul that sins, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4). When Torah is…
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Philo’s Explanation of Yom Kippur
On the Special Laws 2.193–203
The next feast held after the “Trumpets” is the Fast. Perhaps some of the perversely minded who are not ashamed to censure things excellent will say, What sort of a feast is this in which there are no…
Atonement of Sins
m. Yoma 8:9
One who says: I shall sin and repent, sin and repent, they do not afford him the opportunity to repent. [If one says:] I shall sin and Yom Kippur will atone for me, Yom Kippur does not effect…
The Mishnah on Observing the Fast
m. Yoma 8:1, 4–5
8:1. [On] Yom Kippur, it is forbidden to eat, to drink, to wash, to anoint oneself, to put on sandals, or to have intercourse. A king or bride may wash their face, and a woman after childbirth may put…
The Talmud on Observing the Fast
b. Yoma 83a
[If a person is] ill [and requires food due to potential danger], one feeds him according to [the advice of medical] experts. R. Yannai said: [If] an ill person says [he] needs [to eat], and a doctor…
The Mishnah on the Joy of Yom Kippur and the Fifteenth of Av
m. Ta‘anit 4:8
R. Simeon ben Gamaliel said: There were no days of joy in Israel greater than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur. On these days, the daughters of Jerusalem would go out in borrowed white garments in…
Lamentations Rabbah on the Joy of Yom Kippur and the Fifteenth of Av
Lamentations Rabbah Proem 33
[There were no happier days for Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur.] Granted [that this is so] with respect to Yom Kippur, since it is a day of pardon and atonement for Israel and the day…