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Yom Kippur begins tonight. So even though this video isn't set in Philadelphia, there are 75,000 Jews living here (this Phillyist included), and this video goes out to them on their holiest of Holy Days.

Dear God (go with me on this one – if someone can sue Him, I can sure as hell write Him a letter):

If people ask me, I definitely self-identify as Jewish. But if you know me, you know that I'm not terribly observant. I remember the Sabbath, but certainly don't keep it holy. I light candles on Chanukah. I even go so far as fasting on Yom Kippur and pretty much cutting carbs out of my diet for a week every spring. But that's the extent to which I keep kosher. I don't hesitate to combine meat and dairy on my matzoh sandwich. I shellfish. I've broken the fast on at least one occasion with a barbecue bacon cheeseburger.

Twenty-five hours without food or drink. (That's a lie, actually: I drank water to stave off the dehydration-based migraines that I get. I figured God wouldn't mind; the fast isn't supposed to ever endanger your health.) Sure, Ramadan lasts longer, but you never have to go a full twenty-four. Just have breakfast early and dinner late; skip lunch. The usual corporate eating schedule. And Lent doesn't even kind of compare. I know that several Eastern religions have fasts, but I don't really know much about what they entail.

To paraphrase a lot, two of the things that the First Amendment guarantees are freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

It's Yom Kippur. Twenty-five hours of fasting. Good. Times. But since hunger doesn't exist in Cyberspace, we're still here...

Dear God: