I hope all Jewish Dopers who fast for Yom Kippur have an easy fast tonight and tomorrow.
I’d also like to ask you (Jewish or non-Jewish) to forgive me if I’ve said anything on the board that has offended or hurt anybody.
Certainly not.
And let me be the first to say gut yontiff.
Same here.
I read that the best thing to eat before a fast is complex carbs. Apparently, protein makes you feel sick.
I wish you well over the fast. Although I have no religious feeling, I do fast on Yom Kippur–at least till late afternoon. Just a tradition, I guess.
We’ve got a crockpot full of Great Northern beans with lamb shanks and beef in the pantry. It smells good. It’s pretty much our standard pre-Yom-Kippur meal.
I’m trying to drink lots of water today- I’ve heard that helps.
Here’s to an easy fast and a happy/healthy 5771!
Does anyone have any good break the fast plans? I’m taking my daugher to a friends family party. We went last year and it was fun.
I went to Bruegger’s earlier and got bagels for our break-fast. I’m pretty tired out, often kind of grouchy, and generally not feeling particularly sociable by the end of Yom Kippur, so we just do break-fast at home. Or in the car, after services (we’re Conservative, and don’t have a problem with driving to and from synagogue).
The hypertechnicalist in me that I know Bricker would appreciate is forced to point out that you just said you would NOT accept Anne Neville’s apology. 
Sigh…and now I have to ask for an apology from Bricker for being an insufferable bore. Maybe I’ll wait for Suchot.
Fasting for me was never really an issue. I never found it all that difficult. Still, my wife, who’s 7 months pregnant and won’t be fasting, feels bad for me and has asked whether she should be eating somewhere else so as to not make me jealous.
I’m a totally non-religious Jew, but I also fast on Yom Kippur. Good fast to everyone, I hope.
And you’re correct. As she has nothing to apologize for, how can I accept it?
I will eat food on your behalf, Anne.
Only G-d can really accept it. And Stephen Colbert.
I did that for years after I stopped believing.
When I went to Temple, the fast itself never bothered me. Standing up and sitting down about 500 times during services (in my rarely worn suit) did. But I was a teenager then.
I’ll add my good wishes to the others. If we had a Conservative Temple around here I might be tempted to go, but Reform just doesn’t seem Jewish - which no doubt will make Anne laugh.
I really do it more to honor the memory of my grandparents, especially my grandfather on my mother’s side, whom I adored. Not because of any true religious feeling.
Easy fast for all. Going to Kol Nidre tonight- we have a beautiful choir that does a lovely job of it.
Scotland here and we’ve made it through- although there was a very long discussion as to whether or not our times were correct for breaking the fast, as we use the times for Glasgow but are on the east coast.
And my husband wonders where my hair-splitting comes from…
I’m Conversvative myself, and I would have understood your point twenty years ago. However, the Reform movement has changed a LOT in the last 20 years. Maybe the last ten. There’s way more Hebrew – last Reform service I attended was almost entirely Hebrew. They do away with a lot of the repetitions, they shorten much, but I think you’d find it a not unpleasant experience to try it. Perhaps even very pleasant (they don’t do the 500 standing up and sitting downs.) Just a suggestion for the new year.
L’shana tova to all.
We managed to make it through. Did anyone else notice, though, that time slowed to a crawl between about 6pm and 8pm on Saturday?
Different synagogues, even within the same movement, do different things. We went once to a Conservative synagogue that was a little closer to our house than the one we now go to. The services were totally different- musical instruments and all that (which doesn’t feel Jewish to me or Mr. Neville). I have heard that there are still some Conservative synagogues that have separate seating for men and women and don’t call women up for aliyot (though I have never personally been to a Conservative synagogue that did this). There’s a lot of variability within the Conservative movement, and I imagine the same is true of Reform.
In fact, not all services at one synagogue are going to be the same. My Conservative synagogue in California had two different services for High Holidays. One was the standard service, and the other was described as a “contemporary” service. It generally had less Hebrew and was shorter. (We often went to it because it started later, though, and anything that means we don’t have to get up as early is a Good Thing).
If anything, there’s probably more, not less, variability in High Holiday services. Most of the Conservative weekly services I’ve been to have used Siddur Sim Shalom as the prayer book, either the old one or the new one for Shabbat and festivals. There are three Conservative Machzors (High Holiday prayer books) that I know of (the 1972 one edited by Jules Harlow, Machzor Hadash, and the new Machzor Lev Shalem), and I think they’re all still in use somewhere. Our synagogue used Lev Shalem this year, so I know at least one synagogue has used it. Our synagogue has two separate services on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur, and before this year, when we started using the new machzor, I seem to remember they used different ones at each service.
You are forgiven, Anne, and I hope your fast goes well.
Not that you’ve actually offended me.
Yep. Time does drag after reading Jonah until the completion of Ne’ilah’s Selichot prayers.
Does the Rabbinical Assembly (Silverman) machzor count as Conservative?
I grew up on Harlow, the service I go to uses Silverman, the main service at my shul uses Machzor Hadash, and my parents’ shul is an early adopter of Lev Shalem. (BTW, thanks for the name. My parents didn’t know it.)
For extra points, my fiancee uses Artscroll. Do we get any points for the five-book straight?