The Seven Paradoxes of Yom Kippur

Seeing Through a Day of Joyful Paradoxes

According to Pharrell Williams, the height of happiness is to feel like a “room without a roof.” Strange as it may sound, Yom Kippur is meant to be the happiest day of the year. The Mishnah teaches, “There were no better days for Israel than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur.”¹

So according to Pharrell, Yom Kippur is the day to feel like we are in a room with…