{"id":98727,"date":"2022-10-04T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=98727"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:05:51","slug":"09-05-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=98727","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Burning,\u2019 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018It\u2019s Burning,\u2019 Again<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ROKHL KAFRISSEN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rokhl\u2019s Golden City: Why Yiddish black metal is the perfect music for Yom Kippur<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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ORIGINAL IMAGE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I want to talk about Yom Kippur. But only because I\u2019m dreading it. The best part of Yom Kippur is nile<\/em>, or\u00a0Ne\u2019ilah<\/em>, if you prefer. The gates of heaven are closing. The\u00a0shoyfer<\/em>\u00a0is blowing. Maybe someone is even going into the shul kitchen to bring out a tray with little cups of apple juice. You feel elated. But let\u2019s be real, you look like hell. I mean,\u00a0I<\/em>\u00a0do. You probably look fresh as a daisy.<\/span><\/p>\n

After 25-ish hours of fasting and repenting for all your sins, you probably don\u2019t want to think about your own mortal weakness for a while, if not a whole year. The contrast between those feelings\u2014pre-repentance and post-repentance\u2014is the subject of Aaron Lebedeff\u2019s superb comic Yiddish theater song, \u201cFar nile, nokh nile<\/em>\u201d (Before Nile, After Nile).<\/span><\/p>\n

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