Yom Kippur 2017

September 2017 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 Labor Day Monday September 4 -7 years, -2 months, -18 days or -2636 days 5 6 7 8 9 10 Grandparents Day Sunday September 10 -7 years, -2 months, -12 days or -2630 days 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Constitution Citizenship Day Sunday September 17 -7 years, -2 months, -5 days or -2623 days 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Yom Kippur Saturday September 30 -7 years, -1 months, -22 days or -2610 days

Yom Kippur for the year 2017 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of Friday, September 29th ending at sundown on Saturday, September 30.

Yom Kippur is on the tenth day of the month of Tishri in the Jewish calendar. Known as the Day of Atonement, the Jewish holiday is spent in prayer and fasting among many people of the Jewish faith. The seven day festival of Sukkot commemorating the wandering in the desert for 40 years, begins on the fifth day after Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the two important days of atonement for most practicing Jews.

Why do Jewish holidays start at nighttime?

According to the Torah, the story of creation in Genesis says “And it was evening, and it was morning day one”, “And it was evening, and it was morning; the second day”, thus night comes before day. So for the Jewish calendar all days begin at nightfall and end the next day at nightfall including holidays.

Days to Yom Kippur 2017

Saturday, September 30th is day number 273 of the 2017 calendar year with -7 years, -1 month, -22 days until Yom Kippur 2017.