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I'm Mark Oppenheim, and this is unorthodox, the podcast from tablet magazine. This week, something a little different. A little different.

Yum Kapoor is coming up soon.

That's the holiday when Jews fast to atone for our sins.

But there's another somewhat lesser

known ritual at Yum Kapoor time. In the days leading up to the holiday, Jews are

supposed to make amends to all the people we've wronged in the previous year.

In other words, we're supposed to go around to anyone we might have heard and say basically,

I'm sorry.

And then those people are kind of required to forgive us.

See, in Judaism, God can only forgive sins against God, like eating non-cochure food or working on the

Sabbath or masturbation. No good, very bad, terrible things like that. But for sins you've committed against fellow human beings, you have to ask that person for forgiveness. God doesn't enter into it.

So Jews are supposed to be masters of the art of apology.

So to help our fellow Jews and ourselves and anyone else who's listening

think about how to apologize we're doing this special episode. We're going to

hear a couple stories of Jews talking about apologies they have or haven't given,

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