Yom Kippur is the main symbol of the process of reaching a higher power that is separate from all creation. Without unification and without caring for the entire world kli, for mutual assistance, for all humanity, it is not possible to achieve even the slightest spiritual revelation.

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the Kabbalistic calendar, the “holiest of holies.” The holiday is also called (a kind of plural) Yom Ha-Ki-Purim, יום הכיפורים – in this version we could also extract “ki-purim,” which means “like Purim.” Let us remember that Purim is a holiday when we reach a state where we no longer distinguish good from evil, where there is only good. Such is the deeper potential of Yom Kippur, in fact it is the beginning of a process that then culminates in Purim.

Yom Kippur means the Day of Atonement. It is the day we conclude the ten days of teshuvah, which began the new year of the Kabbalistic calendar.

What does the Torah say about the holiday?

Leviticus 16:29

29 This shall be a perpetual statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no work, whether you are a native or a stranger who sojourns among you. 30 For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; you shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 31 It shall be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls.

Leviticus 23:27

27 “On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves and present an offering made by fire to the Lord. 28 You shall do no work on that same day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. 29 For whoever does not humble himself on that same day, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 30 Whoever does any work on that same day, I will cut off from among his people. 31 You shall do no work. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you; you shall humble yourselves. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath.”

We see that this day is called “Saturday.” This is the meaning that Saturday/Shabbat has; it is when we achieve direct contact with the creator.

The final stage of building the container.

The word kipur is first encountered in Gen 6:14. It means wax and to cover with wax. It refers to Noah's preparation of the ark. The metaphor of the ark is the raising of malkut into the bina, where we receive all the light necessary for correction.

Complete fasting and other restrictions

We read that Yom Kippur is celebrated from evening to evening. During this time we do not eat, drink (anything), wash, apply perfume or cream, have sexual intercourse, or wear leather shoes.

These six restrictions symbolize our renunciation of egoistic acceptance and our direct connection with the creator.

Through fasting, we reach a state of altered awareness, where we meditate, encounter ourselves, and above all, the obstacles that separate us from our true selves.

The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life

In a religious sense, it is the day when we repent and are forgiven. In a Kabbalistic sense, it is necessary to know that we reach the Creator when we pass from the tree of knowledge to the tree of life. That is; when we prioritize trust over knowledge or. behavior. Yom Kippur is a reset of our limited logic.

The Creator is behind everything, including our egoism. Therefore, it would be pointless for a Kabbalist to ask the Creator for forgiveness in the classical sense for something that the Creator Himself placed in our path.

On Yom Kippur, it is essential that we are able to believe that our current situation is illusory and that we are able to believe in the achievement of a new situation, for which we need a strong desire.

The discomforts that arise during our meditation and that we find distance us from the Creator should be used to strengthen our longing for the Creator.

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Povzetek

Kreator je Joni naložil, naj gre v mesto Ninive in prebivalce opozori o hudobi, ki jo delajo, da nebi kreator uničil mesta. Vendar je Jona zbežal od te obveznosti, našel ladjo in odplul na morje. Kreator je razburkal morje in spravil v nevarnost Jono in vse mornarje. Ko so ti ugotovili, da je vzrok za razburkano morje Jonova neposlušnost, so ga vrgli v morje.

Kreator je izbral veliko ribo, da je pogoltnila Jono. V njenem trebuhu je ostal tri dni in tri noči. Molil je h kretorju. Nato ga je riba izbljuvala na kopno.

Kreator je Joni še enkrat zapovedal, naj gre v Ninive in prebivalce kliče k upoštevanju kreatorjevih zapovedi. Upoštevali so ga in začeli post! Tudi kralj ga je uslišal in ukazal post za vse.

Kreator je videl, da so se prebivalci Ninive obrnili od stranpoti, zato se je pokesal nad mislijo, da bi jim storil kaj hudega.

Kabalistični komentar

Preobrazba našega egoizma je vedno v tesnem odnosu s preobrazbo kolektiva. To je bistvo kabale in hkrati tudi največja napaka, kadar se spiritualno preobražamo in mislimo, da to lahko storimo sami, kolektiv pa naj gre po svojih stranpoteh. Ravno zaradi odkrivanja naše specifične vloge v družbi je učenje kabale kompliciran proces.

Mornarji na ladji so naše telo, Jona, ki pomeni paloma, pa je duša. Jona je prerok in ve, da bodo prebivalci Ninve v prihodnosti podjamrili Izraelce, zato ne posluša kreatorja, da bi jih rešil. Njegova logika je pomembnejša od nerazumljive kreatorjeve logike.

Ko je Jona v veliki ribi, je v temi in osamljenosti. To sta značilnosti obdobja, skozi katerega gre kabalist, ko se poglablja vase in korigira svoj ego v njegovih temeljih.

Post, ki ga izberejo prebivalci Ninive, je metafora za restrikcijo egoističnega sprejemanja.

Če bomo odpuščanje in spravo videli v kontekstu iskanja našega mesta v procesu kolektivne spiritualne preobrazbe, bomo naredili korak bliže h kreatorju.

Tudi na kocu zgodbe Jona ne razume kreatorjevega posredovanja = ga moti vsa svetloba, žgoče sonce. Kreator postavi drevo s senco, kar pomeni začasno vrnitev razumevanja, ki pa ga spet uniči kreatorjev črv.

Yom kippur je reset naše omejene logike, zato da se lahko razvije bistveno večja želja.

Če postavimo praznik v ustvarjalni kontekst paraša Berešit, potem je jom kippur Noe in njegova barka, ki gre v bino. Torej gre za "naravni" proces. Ko se maksimalno oddaljimo od kreatorja, se prebudi želja po njem. Zato se po jom kippurju začne razvijati desna stran.

Pri izdelavi teoretičnih konceptov je vedno priročno upoštevati, da je prišlo do polarizacije na dajanje in sprejemanje. Slednje, želja, se od svojega vira, dajanje, maksimalno oddalji, da lahko generira hrepenenje, ki potem vodi v preobrazbo, združitev.