The Book of Life Is Long and Boring
<p>Jewish people, while culturally known for being big on guilt, don’t have religious mechanisms for airing their dirty deeds. Catholics have weekly confessions, where a hushed word through a phone booth with a Father Figure and a few Hail Marys make things all better.</p>
<p>Jews need to bottle it up till the High Holy Days, starting with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending ten days later with Yom Kippur.</p>
<p>The Day of Atonement.</p>
<p>As my decades-old Jewish education recalls, on Rosh Hashanah the Book of Life opens for the coming year. Said book remains opened for ten days, and during that time we’re meant to reflect on (and atone for) our transgressions of the previous year. Then after ten days it’s Yom Kipper, and if you didn’t atone adequately then <em>BAM</em>, the book slams shut, and it sucks to be you.</p>
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