# Chag Samech - Happy New Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185 "2021-09-06T21:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/21 "2021-09-07T13:30:54Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > We had a little bit of participation from the folks on zoom. Which makes it a little nicer than YouTube, to me. Yeah, zoom is more “like being there.” When the pandemic first hit, the temple had Shabbat services over zoom and it was very nice. There might only be 25-ish people, but you saw everyone’s face, and the rabbi would have people do readings and stuff. It was cozy in a weird electronic way. No zoom now for services, only YouTube, live streaming from the temple website, Facebook live, _and_ the temple now has its own Roku channel! To attend last night in person, besides your membership card, you had to present proof of vaccination, and of course, everyone was masked. There were probably 50 people there at the early service, which I watched, spread out (except for families). This is in a sanctuary that can seat 1,200 people. Normally there are more people at the 7:30 service–I didn’t watch that one. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/22 "2021-09-07T13:32:34Z")
Where does the time go? Only eight days left to do something I’ll need to atone for. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/23 "2021-09-07T13:35:22Z")
Hey! Your post really pisses me off!! 😡 Not really. Just tryin’ to help. 😘 After all, Rasputin’s advice was “Sin, so you can be forgiven!” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/24 "2021-09-07T13:45:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Hey! Your post really pisses me off!! 😡 That was easy. I was planning on robbing a bank without a mask. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/25 "2021-09-07T15:57:53Z")
See, I saved you the trip! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/26 "2021-09-07T17:02:29Z")
Happy New Year to all of you. We are both non-practicing, non-guilt-ridden, although my wife did light some candles last night. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/27 "2021-09-07T17:15:06Z")
Honey and apples all around! Happy New Year! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/28 "2021-09-07T21:12:09Z")
Don’t forget the pomegranates! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/29 "2021-09-09T13:55:06Z")
I save those for Sukkot. That’s one of the few fruits that is actually seasonal in my markets – I just don’t see them for several months. And they come into season shortly before the holiday. So I avoid them until Sukkot, so I can enjoy a first fruit of the season during the harvest festival. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/30 "2021-09-09T15:41:17Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Where does the time go? Only eight days left to do something I’ll need to atone for. When I was a wee tyke I asked my father, “What if I didn’t do anything wrong all year?” I got smacked upside the head for that. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/31 "2021-09-09T15:49:39Z")
A better answer is that Jews atone for all sins in the Yom Kippur alphabetic chant in case we committed a sin unwittingly. Another interpretation is that we atone for the community’s sins, not just our own. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/32 "2021-09-09T16:00:48Z")
Does anyone remember this brilliant episode of Northern Exposure? > **["Northern Exposure" Shofar, So Good (TV Episode 1994) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0662391/)** > > 46m | 13+ > It is the day before Yom Kippur, and Dr. Joel Fleischman seemingly goes out of his way to be awful to people. He fires Marilyn, gets into another argument with Maggie, and refuses to help rebuild the house of a citizen who left a cigarette lit while he slept. But will a vision of his rabbi back in New York, some choice clips from the previous season, and the specter of what his leaving town will look like change Fleischman’s heart? > [cite](http://fanbasepress.fanboycomics.net/index.php/audio/podcasts/tread-perilously/item/11490-tread-perilously-northern-exposure-shofar-so-good) A takeoff on A Christmas Carol – Joel meets the ghosts of Yom Kippur past, present, and future. My favorite part is at the end when Joel is rushing through clouds to get through the “Gates of Repentance” before they close – this image (as y’all know) is found in the closing service of Yom Kippur day. Dang, I wish that series was available to stream… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/33 "2021-09-09T16:24:21Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > When I was a wee tyke I asked my father, “What if I didn’t do anything wrong all year?” I got smacked upside the head for that. Some people get the devil beat out of them. Some God. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/34 "2021-09-09T22:36:11Z")
I cannot remember the name of the comedian who said, > We do one day of fasting and atonement, and we’re good for the rest of the year. > You Christians do 40 days of Lent. > Even in sin, you’re paying retail! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/35 "2021-09-15T14:16:16Z")
Who is planning on attending Kol Nidre/YK services in person and who is planning to zoom? (Or something else?) Our synagogue is requiring vaccination card to enter, as well as masks. Also the seating is spread out except for families/households. As a single person, I would have a good amount of space around me. I haven’t decided yet. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/36 "2021-09-21T11:45:12Z")
Not sure why discourse just told me about this post, but i chose zoom. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185/37 "2021-09-21T13:33:03Z")
Me, too. Actually it was live streaming on YouTube, not zoom. It looked like there were about 100 people spread throughout the cavernous sanctuary. Probably safe, but you are there for hours and hours. I _hope_ we’re not doing it this way again next year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chag-samech-happy-new-year/950185.md?page=1)