Yom Kippur

Birth is a beginning and death is a destination. And life is a journey: From childhood to maturity and youth to age; From innocence to awareness and ignorance to knowing; From foolishness to discretion and then, perhaps, to wisdom; From weakness to strength or strength to weakness. And, often, back again; From loneliness to love, from joy to gratitude, from pain to compassion, From grief to understanding, from fear to faith; From defeat to defeat to defeat. Until looking backward or ahead, We see that victory lies not at some high place along the way, But in having made the journey, stage by stage a sacred pilgrimage. Birth is a beginning and death is a destination. And life is a journey, a sacred pilgrimage - to life everlasting. (Rabbi Alvin Fine)

To everyone, an easy fast. I forgive any iniquity towards me in the past year. I can only pray those who I have wronged will do the same.