5th-Day Eythaniym (Month 7) 9th
Thursday October 2nd, 2025
How I Guard Yom Kippuriym
I pray that this quick post finds you and your family in the grace and peace of Father Yahuah and walking as close as you can to Mashiach Yahusha!
Yom Kippuriym is the most solemn day of the year, a time for repentance and atonement for the people who guard covenant with Yahuah and walk in the set-apart way of His Torah. I have received questions over the years on how I guard this most Set-Apart Shabbath and did this quick blog to let you know how Ruach Ha’Qodesh has led me to guard it.
The way I guard Yom Kippuriym is to afflict my soul, fast, thank Father Yahuah for delivering me from the past sins that I used to commit, study scripture, reflect on the Salvation Yahuah has provided to us through His Son and do as little as I possibly can. I also blow the shofar at sundown, when evening begins, on the ninth day to announce the start of the Shabbath of Yom Kippuriym, then I blow the shofar at sunrise on the tenth day to announce the start of the Feast Day of Yom Kippuriym, and then I blow the shofar at the end of the tenth day at sundown, again when evening begins, to announce the end of the Shabbath of Yom Kippuriym. On a previous Yom Kippuriym, I made a private list of the sins I committed throughout my life, then I confessed them to Mashiach Yahusha our High Priest and then I asked and thanked Father Yahuah for His forgiveness through the shed blood of His Son Mashiach Yahusha. I would encourage each of you to do this as it ensures that you have at least tried to confess all of your past sins and get forgiveness in the way we are supposed to for Yom Kippuriym. Each Yom Kippuriym I make a list of the sins I have committed during the previous year and confess them to Mashiach Yahusha our High Priest and then I ask and thank Father Yahuah for His forgiveness through the shed blood of His Son Mashiach Yahusha. If there is sin I am having problems getting out of my life, I ask Father Yahuah to help me to turn away (repent) from it completely, so that I can get to the point where I can fully repent of it and ask for true forgiveness from Father Yahuah through His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach in the hopes of never committing it again. I encourage you to remember that we all sin on a constant basis and that we must struggle with our sins until we leave this body.
Yom Kippuriym is a day that we are to afflict our souls and confess the sins we have committed to our High Priest. You can find the scriptures associated with Yom Kippuriym on the Feast Days page. The Torah portion for the upcoming week has Yom Kippuriym in it so check it out on the first day of next week!
I pray that you have a penitent and blessed Yom Kippuriym.
Shalom,
Minister Morrow