When Is Yom Kippur In 2007 ?

When is Yom Kippur in 2007 ?

Yom Kippur in 2007 will begin anywhere from a half hour to 15 minutes before sunset ("Shekiah" means "Sunset" in Hebrew) on Friday, September 21, 2007. The aforementioned variation in the starting time for Yom Kippur depends on the authoritative rabbinical opinion one follows. The aforementioned date for Yom Kippur in 2007 is in the Hebrew/Jewish calendar year of 5768.

When does Yom Kippur in 2007 end?

Yom Kippur in 2007 will end just after nightfall on Saturday, September 22, 2007. Some Jewish people follow the authoritative rabbinical opinion to extend the time of Shabbat beyond nightfall and so Yom Kippur will end for them about a half-hour after nightfall on Saturday, September 22, 2007. In synagogue services, the high holy day of Yom Kippur comes to an end with a recitation of the "Shema Yisrael" prayer ("Hear O Israel" in Hebrew), which is the Jewish pledge of allegiance of faith in one G-d, and the blowing or sounding of the shofar or ram's horn, which marks the conclusion of the 25-hour fast which began one-half hour before the start of Yom Kippur.

When is Yom Kippur in the Hebrew/Jewish calendar?

Yom Kippur always falls on the tenth day of the seventh Hebrew/Jewish month of Tishri or Tishrei in the Hebrew/Jewish calendar.

In the Gregorian calendar, because there are calendrical differences in the lunisolar Hebrew/Jewish calendar and the purely solar Gregorian calendar, Yom Kippur will occur in either September or October in the Gregorian calendar, depending on the calendrical differences between the Hebrew/Jewish calendar and Gregorian calendar from year to year.

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