Yom Kippur 2025 Traditions. Rosh hashanah 2025 begins before sundown on wednesday, oct. Yom kippur is the jewish day of communal and personal atonement for sins committed during the past year.

This yom kippur 2025/5785, october 12, at 3:30pm et, join us for a mass public yizkor ritual of remembrance, refusal and recommitment, at grand army plaza in brooklyn, ny. According to tradition, at the end of yom kippur, god “seals” our fates for the coming year (i.e., whether we will be inscribed in the book of life).