Yom KippurWord for the Wise October 02, 2006 Broadcast Topic: Yom Kippur Today is Yom Kippur, literally, the Day of Atonement.
As religious Jews make their observance, we'll make an observation or two about the linguistic—and religious—place of atonement.
(来源：http://www.
2hzz.
com) Religious atonement refers to the process by which a person removes obstacles to his or her reconciliation with God.
Not surprisingly, atonement is a recurring theme in theology.
In traditional Judaism, atonement takes the form of expiation for one's sins in order to attain God's forgiveness.
In Christianity, atonement takes a variety of paths, but it refers broadly to the reconciliation of God and man through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.
Christian Scientists have a particular application for atonement: in that religion, it means the exemplification of man's oneness with God.
The word atonement comes from at onement meaning "being set at one" or "reconciliation.
" The linguistic ancestor of atone was at on, meaning "in harmony.
" That verb has a number of obsolete or archaic senses, including the intransitive "to enjoy a peaceful harmonious relationship with" and the transitive "to bring from a state of enmity or opposition to a state of friendliness, toleration, or harmony.
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