Yom HaKippurim: The day of atonement; that is how we usually translate it; but is that what it really means? I heard a remarkable story this summer, in the midst of all the fighting in Aza, though in all honesty I have not troubled to corroborate the story.
Apparently a group of Ultra-Orthodox residents from Bnei Brak came to a field near the Gaza strip to harvest wheat for Pesach. Every summer they search for wheat ripe enough to harvest in August when the sun dries the wheat most intensely as part of the process in producing