{"id":43218,"date":"2016-10-06T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=43218"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:43:50","slug":"aseres-yemei-teshuva-shabbos-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/aseres-yemei-teshuva-shabbos-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Aseres Yemei Teshuva and Shabbos: The Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Door-Opening-768x515.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Door-Opening-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Door-Opening-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Door-Opening-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"open door light vintage\" width=\"266\" height=\"178\" \/>The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the days during which G-d can be found. What does that mean? If someone&#8217;s merits and demerits are equal, why does God want him\u00a0to do Teshuva rather than just one more good deed to tip the scale? Why do we use both the lunar cycle and the solar cycle in our calendar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the days during which G-d can be found. What does that mean? If someone&#8217;s merits and demerits are equal, why does God want him\u00a0to do Teshuva rather than just one more good deed to tip the scale? Why do we use both the lunar cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133179,"featured_media":43236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yom-kippur","post_format-post-format-audio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aseres Yemei Teshuva and Shabbos: The Portal - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the days during which G-d can be found. What does that mean? If someone&#039;s merits and demerits are equal, why does God want him\u00a0to do Teshuva rather than just one more good deed to tip the scale? 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