Yom Kippur Gems: Prayer Insights 5776

Vignettes include:

• A moving tale with R' Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev sets the tone for how to pray on Yom Kippur
• A famous psychologist's rare condition provides insight on the power to forget
• The Yom Kippur lesson from all that updating we do with our phone Apps
• An amusing anecdote about the rabbi who caught his entire congregation in a lie
• "G-d answered Abraham at Mount Moriah"--yet no prayer is recorded. What was Abraham's prayer?
• The unlikely history of America's national anthem and its Jewish lessons
• A lesson from the great art heist in 1911 in which the Mona Lisa was stolen
• A beautiful Midrash about the different perspectives of a tzadik and a rasha
• The Rebbe's response on how anyone can "resurrect the dead"
• The unknown tale about the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster
• A 1958 play that re-imagined the story of Job
• The youthful zealot of Mea Shearim who wanted to blame all Israel's troubles on the "chilonim"