Older children and women from the third to the seventh day after childbirth are permitted to fast, but are permitted to break the fast if they feel the need to do so. Many Jews spend most of Yom Kippur in the synagogue, in prayer. People then usually go home for an afternoon nap and return around 5 or 6 PM for the afternoon and evening services, which continue until nightfall. The services end at nightfall, with the blowing of the tekiah gedolah, a long blast on the shofar. It is customary to wear white on Yom Kippur, which symbolizes purity and calls to mind the promise that sins shall be made as white as snow.
Some people wear a kittel, the white robe in which the dead are buried.