Jewish folks what is Yom Kippur?

Yom Kippur is translated as "the day of atonement." We believe that in Rosh ahshanah, the new year of the world, which takes place on the 1st and 2nd of Tishrei, the world is judged. From the 3rd of Tishrei is an intense period of self reflection in which we look for further ways to improve ourselves. On Yom Kippur we believe we stand before the Kisei haKavod 9the divine throne of G-d) and beg for a more lenient judgement and to be inscribed for a good and healthy year. At the close of Yom Kippur, our fate is inscribed for the next year.

yom Kippur is the most holy day in the calendar. All Jews celebrate it. It's, basically, like confession is for Catholics...only once a year, and for all humanity.

It's pretty dull and boring, where you have to listen to some dry mumblings in a synagogue or temple. The younger you are, the worse it is.

While teshuvah, or repentance and return is available to all humans at all times..collectively theJews as a covenant nation repent for sins against God during Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The day we strive for collective connection (atonement) to God. mroof gave you such a great answer I think that is what you should choose and in addition to the book of Numbers she referenced itis also in Leviticus ...In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall not do any work ... For on that day he shall provide atonement for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the L-RD. -Leviticus 16:29-30 here is a reference for more:http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm for Eleazer ( whose name appears in Hebrew script) I would say that it is more appropriate to say that during the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the days of awe, that we are to be doing our best to make sure we have made amends with other people before we come before God to make amends for ourselves. http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday3.htm that explains that portion better than I can for sylvia c..I often find that Christians are very confused about the concept of sin and atonement inthe Hebrew Bible because they do not read the words in context .Christianity isn't like Judaism in almost every core concept. It isn't just who the messiah is where we differ. If you use the New Testament to redefine every core concept It is no wonder you're confused. Read the entire book of Exodus in context, without using the NT to reinterpret it..and then you will see that the Paschal lamb never had a thing to do with sin or atonement and no Passover memorial has ever referred to it as such. No lamb killed and eaten for Passover was ever considered a sin sacrifice, but is for the purpose God commanded in the Torah. The lamb of either sheep or ram and it's blood (what the ancients believed to be the life force) killed and eaten in the presence of the Egyptians was an act of defiance, emancipation and allegiance to God. They placed the representation of the ram headed and sheep headed God (Pharaoh represented the ram headed god incarnate)..recall the lamb can be either sheep or goat ..on their plates and ate him..and smeared their doors with the blood of those animals to show the Egyptians they were no longer in fear ..and that they were allied to the God of Israel who would save them from slavery. It wasn't about sin..it was about rejecting pagan gods and showing allegiance to God. It was the final showdown between the notion of the Pharaoh as a god..and the real God of Israel. It showed the Egyptians that their false gods were impotent against the real God. The Christian redefinition of the Paschal lamb revealed the NT writer who called it a sin sacrifice was unfamiliar with Judaism& TorahOR they were purposelytrying to hide the lesson that clearly is one saying men are not gods to and lie about one of the HOLIEST observances God commands straight out inthe Torah as a memorial..to remember. to call the Paschal lamb a sin sacrifice wrong. Passover is stressed so strongly to remember because in every generation the Jews are surrounded by people whose worship of foreign gods can enslave us to idolatry and superstition..whose focus of obsession on the afterlife can remove from us our focus on the purpose we have in this life ..for ourselves and for the lives to follow ours.

A magical creature that is created when a Yom and a Kipper love each other veeeerrry much, So to answer your question, I don't know.

I always thought it is a celebration of the night when they had to smear the blood of an unblemished lamb on their doorpost and eat unleavened bread as the angel of death passed through that night just before Pharaoh let them go to be delivered out of slavery in Egypt. I guess the blood was the atonement for sins that were or had been committed, It is equal to our Easter, where christ shed His blood for the atonement of our sins, and overcame death for us, so that has no longer any dominion over us. One is deliverance out of slavery the other a deliverance from bondage of sin.