Observances
Three of the main observances are themes that are repeated in both the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayer services and printed in every mahzor ("holiday prayer book") of those two holy days: "Repentance, Prayer and Charity (teshuva, tefila, tzedaka) remove the evil decree":
- "In almost all editions of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur machzor, the words ותשובה ותפלה וצדקה repentance, prayer, and charity, are crowned in smaller type with the words צום קול ממון, fast, voice, money. These superscripts are meant to indicate that sincere repentance includes fasting, prayer recited in a loud voice, and donations to charity.
Read more about this topic: Ten Days Of Repentance
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“... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go straight to heaven when he dies, provided he has fulfilled certain simply observances in this life, has a cheap pleasure which will not be followed by the least disappointment.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)