Many people have the custom of wearing white on Yom Kippur. Some men, wear a kittel, a simple white robe, over their clothing. On Yom Kippur evening, men wear their tallit, prayer shawl, which is usually worn only during the day. Wearing white serves several purposes:
i) One’s burial shroud is white and one is therefore reminded of one’s mortality and the need to do teshuvah, repentance.
ii) On Yom Kippur one wishes to resemble an angel, and therefore one symbolically dresses in white.
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