To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard

To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard

(RNS) — The idea of dragging a scaly reptile into holy waters — a ridiculous image paired with a moral imperative — makes one wonder what their lizard might be. And how do you let it go?

Atonement and repentance - Forest Park Review

The Jewish high holy day Yom Kippur begins at sundown Wednesday. In many ways what Jews at West Suburban Temple Har Zion and Oak Park Temple B’nai Abraham Zion will be doing this evening is swimming against the current of societal flow. The societal current these days is flowing toward the secular, away from a theocentric worldview and toward an anthropocentric view, if not an “ego-centered” one. Rabbi Yitzchok Bergstein, the rabbi at the Chabad…