This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

by Alan Lew

TWICE A YEAR DURING THE DAYS OF THE GREAT Temple, on Tisha B’Av and on Yom Kippur, there was a service at the end of the day, called Neilah, or closing, because it was performed as the Temple gates were clanging shut.