Neilah Yom Kippur
When the gates of heaven close with you inside.
Neilah yom kippur. Neilah closing of the gates is the final service of yom kippur. Over the past few months we have internalised the tension between boundaries and the infinite. The cantonists were child recruits in the russian military. Abraham lewin the author of a book in yiddish entitled kantonisten cantonists relates a moving incident on yom kippur in an unnamed russian city.
Yom kippur is a true day of at one ment we know now more than ever in our lifetimes what it means to be locked in what it takes to find freedom from within a confined space and make meaning from limitations. Neilah in judaism the last of the five yom kippur services. However the special piyyutim written for this service favor. Neilah means closing the gate as the awesome day of yom kippur comes to a close and our future is being sealed we turn to g d to accept our sincere repentance and.
As the concluding rite of yom kippur the service is the most sacred of the yearly liturgy and is expressed in melodies of great solemnity. As days roll into each other each. Some have suggested that the name refers to the historical fact that this extra service was recited at the end of the day of atonement when the temple gates were closing. The prayer of a soldier.
