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How Can We Heal Our Hurts? Yom Kippur 5777

November 15, 2016

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Rabbi David Greenspoon

Good morning, and good yontiff. This Day of Judgment uses many

devices for us to confront our humanity, and by extension, our

mortality. The fasting of food and drink, the abstinence from intimacy,

the white kittel that is otherwise worn as a burial shroud, the Yizkor

serv...

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