Sheila Stafford

Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It means ‘Day of Atonement’ and it’s when Jewish people seek forgiveness from God for their sins. We meet some kids who’ve just taken part in Yom Kippur.

DANIEL: Judaism is one of the worlds main religions, one of the three main in the world, it was created 5000 years ago, thats what Jewish people believe.

We have a religious book called the Torah or the Bible, and many celebrations and important dates throughout the year like Yom Kippur.

TAL: It means Day of Atonement, when we seek forgiveness from God for our sins.

So the first Yom Kippur was when the Israelites left Egypt. Their leader Moses went up a big mountain and asked God for the Commandments. He wrote the Commandments on stone tablets and gave them to Moses.

SHANI: And then he came back down the mountain and saw that the Jews were praising a different God which made him really angry and he broke the Commandments. Then he went back up the mountain and God forgave the