That Condition

At this stage of the GAME, information in my head gets overlooked before something else comes to mind that I'm thinking about.  It's taking some discipline on my part to keep things straight and nicely flowing out and carried out so that I don't get scattered brained.  Forgetfulness is increasing.  The name of the game is called LIFE with challenges.

Maturing in age continues and with it comes challenges that are new to me.  Staying focused is more difficult.  

Things I have been researching and reading about are many.  Today is Yom Kippur.  I am not a full blooded Jewish person and have never participated in it.  I did start FASTING yesterday evening after supper.  Think I will do my best to not eat until sundown today.  Last night I noticed that I wanted to eat oh so badly before going to bed.  Had to keep talking to myself to not eat.

This morning I took my meds with little water and have been struggling at not eating.  I don't usually eat much breakfast but it seems when I do something like this I want food more than ever.  When I'm told NO CAN HAVE I have a struggle and want it even more.  Psychological, emotional handicap or is it the demons whispering in my ear to EAT EAT EAT???

I shared with my husband that I am fasting because I wanted to do this because it's Yom Kippur.  No sooner than I said this as he was walking out the door to go to work, I asked if he wanted to do LUNCH!  After he left then it hit me....you are fasting.  I had to email him and tell him I had already forgotten.  

At any rate, I plan to not eat until tonight after the sun goes down and pray throughout the day.  This will be a huge accomplishment that tells me YES, you are disciplined and can do this.

THINGS ON MY MIND:
YOM KIPPUR
PLANTAR FASCIITIS
ORGANIC FOODS
LOSING WEIGHT
THYROID MANAGEMENT
DECORATING
RUNNING ERRANDS
PAYING THE MORTGAGE

FIRST LET ME THINK ABOUT Yom Kippur.

The traditions are as follows on the day of YOM KIPPUR:

1. No eating and drinking
2. No wearing of leather shoes
3. No bathing or washing
4. No anointing oneself with perfumes or lotions
5. No marital relations

According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend their behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God (bein adam leMakom) and against other human beings (bein adam lechavero). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of Yom Kippur, one hopes that they have been forgiven by God.

THANK YOU WIKIPEDIA~

Leviticus 16:29 mandates establishment of this holy day on the 10th day of the 7th month as the day of atonement for sins. It calls it the Sabbath of Sabbaths and a day upon which one must afflict one's soul.

Leviticus 23:27 decrees that Yom Kippur is a strict day of rest.

Five additional prohibitions are traditionally observed, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition (Mishnah tractate Yoma 8:1).

The number five is a set number, relating to:

1. In the Yom Kippur section of the Torah, the word soul appears five times.
2. The soul is known by five separate names: soul, wind, spirit, living one and unique one.
3. Unlike regular days, which have three prayer services, Yom Kippur has five- Maariv, Shacharit, Mussaf, Minchah and Neilah
4. The Kohen Gadol rinsed himself in the mikveh (ritual bath) five times on Yom Kippur.^[7]

The traditions are as follows:

1. No eating and drinking
2. No wearing of leather shoes
3. No bathing or washing
4. No anointing oneself with perfumes or lotions
5. No marital relations

A parallel has been drawn between these activities and the human condition according to the Biblical account of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.^[8] Refraining from these symbolically represents a return to a pristine state, which is the theme of the day. By refraining from these activities, the body is uncomfortable but can still survive. The soul is considered to be the life force in a body. Therefore, by making one’s body uncomfortable, one’s soul is uncomfortable.^[8] By feeling pain one can feel how others feel when they are in pain.^[9] This is the purpose of the prohibitions.

Total abstention from food and drink as well as keeping the other traditions begins at sundown, and ends after nightfall the following day. One should add a few minutes to the beginning and end of the day, called tosefet Yom Kippur, lit. "addition to Yom Kippur". Although the fast is required of all healthy men over 13 or women over 12, it is waived in the case of certain medical conditions.

Virtually all Jewish holidays involve meals, but since Yom Kippur involves fasting, Jewish law requires one to eat a large and festive meal on the afternoon before Yom Kippur, after the Mincha(afternoon) prayer. This meal is meant to make up for the inability to eat a large meal on the day of Yom Kippur instead, due to the prohibition from eating or drinking. 

Wearing white clothing (or a kittel for Ashkenazi Jews), is traditional to symbolize one's purity on this day. Many Orthodox men immerse themselves in a mikveh on the day before Yom Kippur.^[10]

In order to gain atonement from God, one must:^[7]

1. Pray
2. Repent of one's sins
3. Give to charity

SHALL SEE HOW IT GOES.

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