Yom Kippur
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Yom Kippur is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 28, 2022 and October 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)”; “fast for us on Yom Kippur”. It most often appears alongside effective altruism, FTX, Nate Silver.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 28, 2022
- Last seen: October 17, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
15: The High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) are two of the biggest holidays of the Jewish year, about a week apart. Many Jews only go to synagogue during the High Holy Days, just like so-called “Christmas-and-Easter Christians”, and synagogues get a lot of their yearly dues from Jews who want to make sure they have a seat at a High Holy Day service. During the early 20th century, entrepreneurs founded “mushroom synagogues”, so-named for their tendency to spring up around High Holy Days and then disappear for the rest of the year; the war between regular and mushroom synagogues got ugly and sometimes involved state legislation.
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Even stricter! What if you need to make a non-gimmicky positive difference that isn’t downstream of someone else’s decision to artificially provide you with purpose? The best the book can do is suggest religious or pseudo-religious rituals. We can’t build robots to go to church for us on Easter or fast for us on Yom Kippur, nor to live decent lives free of sin. If you’re an atheist, maybe you can get a similar effect by honoring your ancestors - perhaps your hard-working grandmother wanted to be remembered by her descendants, and only you can fulfill her last request.