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发帖数: 167 | 1 Yom Kippur - Day Of Atonement
Since primeval times, and on different levels of conception--all the way from
the magical to the ethical--the Jews have revered the Day of Atonement as the
most significant of all holy days in their religious calendar. As the
centuries
moved forward, their comprehension of the idea of "atonement" for sins also
advanced. Ultimately, Yom Kippur became a sounding-board for all the inchoate
yearnings of a people driven by an idealistic compulsion for self-improvement
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