YOM KIPPUR: FACE TO FACE

A Hebrew idiom for Yom Kippur is “face to face”. When the high priest (Cohen HaGadol) went into the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, he was in the divine presence of the God of Israel. The Hebrew word for being in the presence of the God of Israel is ~ynIP “panim” which means “face”.

“Panim” is the Strong’s number <6440>. In Genesis / Bereishit 3:8 it is written:

Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence ~ynIP <6440> of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.