Overview Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

Are you ready to learn? Most important event

Walks around God decides who lives
Brief def (one of the oldest) Day of repentance and fasting
Traces back to jesus time

Passover
Old testament
Pharisees and Sadducees Exodus
Rosh Hashanah
Judaism New year
Abraham or Moses was the founder Ethics
Worship in synagogues
Torah Doesnt forbid abortion but is highly
discouraged
Talmud (oral law)
Rabbis Prayer
Beliefs 3x a day
Monotheistic
No trinity
God is neither male nor female
Sabbath/Shabbat
Starts at sunset of Friday ends at
sunset of Saturday (25 hours)
No work allowed
Lighting of candles
All wear hats for reverence
Drink wine
3 meals (Challah or bread at least one
meal)
Teffilin (black strap for morning
prayer)
Eruv
Enclosed area (allows the bringing of
things)
Kippah
Cap
 gaze to our main goal, to our
teachers and staff who became
our second family, the ones who
supported us in every way
possible, the ones who taught us
that education doesnt stop at
school but continues so long as
we live, and most especially to
our God who is the source of our
strength in times of failure, hope
in times of defeat, and
determination in times of
impossibility, we very much
appreciate all the things youve
done and sacrificed for us.

To my fellow awardees,
ladies and gentlemen let us all
continue to be the change weve
always wanted to be by bettering
our best.
To all the people who became a
part of this success: our parents,
who never ceased to guide us in
every step of our way, the ones
who served as an inspiration
during the times when we want to
give up on the different obstacles
which came our way, the ones
who always reminded us to be
focused and determined to fix our Recognition day is the
culmination of all hard work and
a year of study. Today is a day of changes, but when you look back,
celebration for all of us who everything is different?
worked hard for another school
This is self-explanatory but
year. It is the day when us,
Id like to reinforce this simple
students can say, Ive done it! It quote by pointing out that, along
is a milestone in our life and a day
with the achievements and all the
when we gather and celebrate flying colors that come with
success. As we are gathered here
recognition, everything will come
now, let us all look back at the from a starting point of
beautiful memories. Let us look
perseverance, persistence, and
back to where we were before, to patience. It would seem nothing
a place where we really struggled.
on that present time but when the
Let us look back in time and
time comes and you try to look
reminisce our experiences that
back at those efforts: late night
made us who we are today.
readings, researching, studying
As we are assembled here for quizzes for the next day,
on our renewed school year, we everything will be different,
have a chance to look back on our different in a positive way,
past. Yes, school year 2016-2017. different in accordance to how
A bit of a throwback it is but you would envision it to be, and
surely a memorable one for all of different in such a way that you
us especially for those who have become a more improved version
exerted a bit more of their of yourself.
dedication to the love of the
academe.
I came across a beautiful quote
the other day which made a
perfect sense in our lives not just
to us students but to everyone
here. The quote goes: Isnt it
funny how day by day nothing