ABSTRACT
The Day of Atonement falls on the tenth of Tishri. The purpose of the Day of Atonement is clearly indicated by its name. It is intended to complete and crown the work of the penitential season by finally reconciling the soul with the Almighty. In ancient times the Service on the Day of Atonement was of the most elaborate and imposing character. The existing liturgy for the Day of Atonement reproduces the stirring pictures of ancient times, and in the form used in some synagogues, it also contains a medieval poem bewailing the fact that they are but pictures, memories only, not realities. The chief, the real aim, of the Day of Atonement is the reformed life. For no religion has a truer conception of the sinfulness of sin than Judaism, and the proof is in the Day of Atonement itself. The Day of Atonement does not give the Jew a privilege denied to other religionists.
