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| Yom Kippur involves fasting and prayer to ask forgiveness of the deity for any wrongs you have done over the past year. This is only granted if the supplicant has sought and obtained forgiveness from people she has wronged. Make yourself of aware your wrongdoings by creating a written list of them. Take this and some bread to a lake or river. Bury or burn your list while visualizing the bread absorbing these wrongs. Focus on each wrongdoing as you break off small portions of the bread, casting them into the water to be carried away from you, saying: "As what goes out always comes back, I do both give and ask forgiveness. Purity of spirit shall live in me; I give what I get, so mote it be." |
