Holiday brings out sense of community
Last week I had to write two papers, to sit an exam and to atone.
Saturday was Yom Kippur. This likely did not escape your notice, because Yale groups are very good about rescheduling auditions, rush meals, executive meetings and everything else devouring our time around what is meant to be the Sabbath of Sabbaths. Yalies are not exactly orthodox monotheists, or so we’re told. What’s the appeal of Yom Kippur?
Yom Kippur was not really about God for me this year. I don’t know what God means. That Saturday of suits and starving in Battell Chapel (cleverly renamed “Bait El,”...
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