{"id":10467,"date":"2021-09-15T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:34:08","slug":"editors-note-a-day-of-atonement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10467","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Note: A Day of Atonement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/article_cdo\/aid\/4687\/jewish\/Yom-Kippur.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/rngw10135920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/rngw10135920.jpg 650w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/rngw10135920-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yom Kippur starts a few minutes before sunset on September 15. For nearly 26 hours, Jews everywhere will gather and pray for forgiveness. (Image: Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we get into other stories from around the world, I want to point out that The Day of Atonement or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/article_cdo\/aid\/4687\/jewish\/Yom-Kippur.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yom Kippur<\/a> starts just before sunset tonight (September 15). For practicing Jews everywhere, this is the holiest day of the year. Many will be earnestly seeking God today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to pray for them? The book of Hebrews is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poke around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chabad.org<\/a> to learn more about Yom Kippur observances and other Jewish practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found the following articles on the topic of atonement helpful, though admittedly they might be more useful for reaching secular Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/atonement-our-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atonement Is in Our Blood<\/a> (The Gospel Coalition)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/probe.org\/the-scandal-of-blood-atonement-why-all-the-blood-and-cross-talk-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Scandal of Blood Atonement: \u201cWhy All the Blood and Cross-Talk, Christian?\u201d<\/a> (Probe).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessings as you pray,<br>Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yom Kippur starts a few minutes before sunset on September 15. For nearly 26 hours, Jews everywhere will gather and pray for forgiveness. (Image: Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center) Greetings! Before we get into other stories from around the world, I want to point out that The Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur starts just before sunset &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Editor&#8217;s Note: A Day of Atonement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10469,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions\/10469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}