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Happy Yom Kippur!

Jill

I actually have no idea what is the appropriate thing to say on Yom Kippur, but hopefully “happy” will be sufficient. To all those celebrating, I hope you’re having a good one, with sins fully atoned for — and I hope you have a great big wonderful meal after sundown tonight. For those unfamiliar with the holiday, here’s a little Yom Kippur 101.

11 thoughts on Happy Yom Kippur!

  1. The same website has some etiquette tips for holiday greetings: for Yom Kippur, it’s “Have an easy fast” rather than “Happy…” Of course, too late now, although it’s never too late to wish somebody a L’Shanah Tovah, roughly the equivalent of Happy New Year.

  2. I actually have no idea what is the appropriate thing to say on Yom Kippur.

    “Good yontif” (a good holiday) is the usual.

    Rosh Hashanah, though, has its own greeting “Shanah Tovah” which means a good new year. There’s a nice new year’s tradition, too, where you get an apple, cut it into slices, dip it into honey and share it with friends and family, so that eveyone will have a sweet, full year.

    Trivia to squirrel away for next year.

  4. “yeah”, happy is kind of the wrong thing to say for a day in which believers fast to make up for their sins from the prior year.

    i use this one with my orthodox relatives:

    “hey, what did you have for lunch today?”

    but i can be an asshole sometimes.

  6. Saying “Happy Yom Kippur” is roughly equivalent to saying “Happy Good Friday.” Just so’s ya know. Most of us just say “Have an easy fast.” Which I more or less did.

  8. Elayne: I always go with ‘Happy Jesus on a Stick’ day for Easter Friday .. I’m guessing that won’t work so well for Yom Kippur?

  9. Elayne: I always go with ‘Happy Jesus on a Stick’ day for Easter Friday .. I’m guessing that won’t work so well for Yom Kippur?

    no, it doesn’t work. you can’t eat a jesus on a stick on yom kippur. it’s a day of fasting.

  10. Happy Jesus on a Stick day is the funniest thing i’ve heard all week. i can’t believe i have to wait 6 months to use it!

  11. it’s “gmar chatimah tova”. basically, it expresses the hope that god decides to forgive you, and therefore not kill you in teh following year.

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