Fasting for Meaning
Kol Nidrei 5778 When I was seven or eight years old, my grandfather and I had a routine around Yom Kippur: He would take me to the Yom Kippur family service in the morning, and he would still make his standing mid-morning golf game. We both won. My grandfather did not evade his obligation to be at services over Yom Kippur. He observed the holiday seriously, though in his own way. He attended Kol Nidrei. We went to the family service together. And then, he would come back in t