The Yom Kippur Day of Atonement is an important part of moving forward into the new year celebrated by Rosh HaShanah. When atonement is mentioned, sometimes the feelings it evokes are dread, guilt, shame or fear. But atonement is really about the opportunity to course-correct, to start again, maybe even to jump tracks so that the details of the journey itself are more in alignment with our destination -- to bring our being and doing back into "at-onement" with our values. Thus, as author Shimon Apisdorf says, "Yom Kippur is an affirmation of the value of life, of each day and of every aspect of each day, and of every choice that we make. We all know: that which we truly cherish is that which we carefully scrutinize. The more significant the whole, the more precious are its details. Rosh Hashanah is about the big directional choices we make...our goals and destinations, our mission in life. Yom Kippur is about the details that will get us where we want to go...and recalculating [where or when needed] to ensure our success." (Thanks to Shimon Apisdorf, author of Beyond Survival: A Journey to the Heart of Rosh Hashanah, its Prayers, and Life)