Get up for Yom Kippur

Oct 11, 2016, 7:54 AM

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“Get up… I gave you 10 days for repentance, for turning over a new leaf in the Book of Life.

Now you will have 50 weeks to be renewed.

Even if you don’t have faith in yourself, I have faith in you.

Get up off the floor and get up quickly. Falling isn’t the worst sin.

Staying on the floor is.”

The words above are the last part of a prayer meditation from Makhzor Tikunay Nefashot: a spiritual renewal high holiday prayerbook I edited in 1999.

About the Author

Rabbi Allen S. Maller has published over 1100 articles on Jewish values in over a dozen Christian, Jewish, and Muslim magazines and web sites. Rabbi Maller is the author of "Tikunay Nefashot," a spiritually meaningful High Holy Day Machzor, two books of children's short stories, and a popular account of Jewish Mysticism entitled, "God, Sex and Kabbalah." His most recent books are "Judaism and Islam as Synergistic Monotheisms' and "Which Religion Is Right For You?: A 21st Century Kuzari" both available on Amazon.