The Jewish High Holy Days are a time of repentance and prayer, but also of hope. Rosh Hashana, the first of the High Holy Days and the Jewish new year, starts Friday evening and continues through ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar is here, and will include a day of fasting, prayer and repentance.

It is hard to look at the world today and not feel we need a day of repentance and atonement. “Justice, Justice you shall pursue.” We have fallen so short of that politically, socially and ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday, is a solemn Day of Atonement dedicated to introspection, repentance, and ...

Rosh Hashanah, one of the High Holy Days, means the "head of the year" and is a celebration of the Jewish New Year filled ...

Perhaps the most infamous example is the Yom Kippur War, which began on October 6, 1973, the 10 th of Tishrei in that year.

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.

I want to know if Istighfaar (asking forgiveness) with the intention of repenting (regret, sincerity, and so on) is counted as repentance or if the only way of repenting is praying Salat At-Tawbah ...

On the Day of Atonement-Yom Kippur, Jews pray not at the usual three daily services, but [like Muslims] at five services, which however all together last for over 8-10 hours. One of the meanings of ...

The well-known 12 steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program begin with an admission of powerlessness over alcohol and the acknowledgement of the need for a Power greater than ourselves to restore us ...