Yom Kippur 2017: Atoning Before God, Together
“The subject of my remarks this evening is the passage in the mahzor鈥攅specially meaningful to me, and in some ways quite problematic鈥攖hat we will recite no fewer than ten times on this tenth day of Tishrei, five times individually and five times as a group. I refer of course to the vidui, or confessional. Ashamnu, bagadnu, gazalnu, we will say, all the way through the Hebrew alphabet to shihatnu, and鈥攆or good measure鈥攖hree sins beginning with the letter tav.”
Atoning Before God, Together on the chancellor’s blog, On My Mind
