Yom Kippur is a celebration stemming from God’s forgiveness 3500 years ago after the Jewish People built the Golden Calf at the giving of the Torah 50 days after leaving the slavery of Mitzriam/Egypt. During those fifty days the Jewish People went from eating bread from the earth to eating bread from the heavens, Mana; water ran out of a rock forming 12 rivers to quench the thirst of the 12 tribes who they travelled in a cloud.
After having spent forty days and forty nights on the mountain called Sinai/Hatred, Moshe returned for another set of forty days and nights without water or food until God agreed to forgive the Jewish People and instructed Moshe to return to the people to tell them then return to the mountain for another forty days and forty nights which ends this evening with Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.
The prescriptions for this day includes fasting fro food and water for the purpose of approaching an angelic state; all pleasures of the flesh are denied on this day–even sleep is not permitted for those who are able.
At the end of the day the last prayer, called Nila/Locking, the doors of the Ark are opened indicating there is no separation between creation and the Creator.
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