Yom Kippur 2012

September 2012 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 Labor Day Monday September 3 -11 years, -7 months, -23 days or -4253 days 4 5 6 7 8 9 Grandparents Day Sunday September 9 -11 years, -7 months, -17 days or -4247 days 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Constitution Citizenship Day Monday September 17 -11 years, -7 months, -9 days or -4239 days 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Yom Kippur Wednesday September 26 -11 years, -7 months or -4230 days 27 28 29 30

Yom Kippur for the year 2012 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of Tuesday, September 25th ending at sundown on Wednesday, September 26th.

Yom Kippur is on the tenth day of the month of Tishri in the Jewish calendar. Known as the Day of Atonement, the Jewish holiday is spent in prayer and fasting among many people of the Jewish faith. The seven day festival of Sukkot commemorating the wandering in the desert for 40 years, begins on the fifth day after Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the two important days of atonement for most practicing Jews.

Why do Jewish holidays start at nighttime?

According to the Torah, the story of creation in Genesis says “And it was evening, and it was morning day one”, “And it was evening, and it was morning; the second day”, thus night comes before day. So for the Jewish calendar all days begin at nightfall and end the next day at nightfall including holidays.

Days to Yom Kippur 2012

Wednesday, September 26th is day number 270 of the 2012 calendar year with -11 years, -7 months, -0 days until Yom Kippur 2012.