• Yom Kippur/Ash Wednesday afterthought

    From David Dalton@dalton@nfld.com to uk.religion.christian on Fri Feb 13 03:21:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.religion.christian

    After I posted my last query, I did some google searching and found:

    In a search for Christian equivalent of Yom Kippur,
    GooglerCOs AI Overview says

    The closest Christian equivalent to Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is Good Friday, which commemorates Jesus Christ's crucifixion as the ultimate, final sacrifice for sins. While Yom Kippur involves yearly repentance and
    atonement, Christians believe Jesus fulfilled this, rendering the sacrificial system obsolete.

    but in another search for Ash Wednesday Yom Kippur it says:

    Ash Wednesday (Christianity) and Yom Kippur (Judaism) are both solemn, high-stakes days of atonement, fasting, and repentance. While Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent by using ashes to signify mortality and repentance, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, focuses on final atonement, intense prayer, and cleansing, often considered the "Jewish Ash WednesdayrCY

    But what do you think?
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  • From John@megane.06@gmail.com to uk.religion.christian on Fri Feb 13 15:22:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.religion.christian

    On 13/02/2026 06:51, David Dalton wrote:

    Ash Wednesday (Christianity) and Yom Kippur (Judaism) are both solemn, high-stakes days of atonement, fasting, and repentance. While Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent by using ashes to signify mortality and repentance, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, focuses on final atonement, intense prayer, and cleansing, often considered the "Jewish Ash WednesdayrCY

    But what do you think?

    Whilst Yom Kippur is firmly established in Jewish law, Ash Wednesday and
    Lent are man made traditions, not part of the early Christian church.
    If folk want to follow them absolutely fine, but it won't make someone a lesser Christian if you don't.



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