Yom Kippur

[cellio]

Yom Kippur starts tonight. To all who observe, tzom kal (an easy fast) and g'mar chatima tova (may the final seal be for good).

Interesting essay on reward and punishment and other issues: The Gift of Justice by Rabbi Micha Berger (aspaqlaria).

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

G'mar chatimah tova, and tzom kal.

[cellio]

Thank you.

Hebrew question: how is that kal spelled? (I've seen it only in transliteration, so far as I know.) If it's with a kaf, I really hope the vowel is a patach -- because the thought of having two kals running around, one with a kametz and one with a kametz katan, makes my head hurt. :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

It's with a koof (heck, transliteration is a pain; the one with the descender, not the backwards C relative).

[cellio]

Oh good. Thank you.

(Yeah, by kaf I meant the other one, the one that also appears as chaf.)