Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed

BY YORAM ETTINGER 1.  Yom Kippur’s central theme is the plea for forgiveness from fellow human-beings, highlighting the most essential attributes of constructive leadership, healthy relationships and family and national cohesion: humility (admitting fallibility), faith, soul-searching, thoughtfulness, being considerate, compassion, accepting responsibility, minimizing personal hostility, magnanimity.  In order to penetrate the heart of fellow human-beings,…