Reliving the Yom Kippur Temple Service Today
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier is Director of Education and a member of the Drisha faculty. A Research Fellow in Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, he received his PhD in Ancient Judaism at Yale University and was a member of Yeshiva University’s Kollel Elyon. Previously he served as Director of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Yale University and as the Flegg postdoctoral fellow in Jewish Studies at McGill University.
Shlomo is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion and RIETS, as well as of the Wexner and Tikvah Fellowships. He has lectured and taught widely across North America, as well as at Yale Divinity School, Yeshiva University, the Tikvah Fund, and Bnot Sinai. A Founder of The Lehrhaus, Shlomo serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition and has edited two books on contemporary Jewish thought.
This series considers a few distinct directions in which Avodat Yom ha-Kippurim is re-lived today, through rituals and liturgies:
Rituals relating to atonement, specifically Kapparot and Tashlikh. 3 Amitz Koach and other Piyyutim about the Temple service itself.
Pleas for atonement that correlate with aspects of the Yom Kippur Temple service, including Selihot and Vidduy.