The last confession (vidui), has somewhat disappeared in recent centuries. In this column, I’ll briefly lay out the case for restoring this meaningful ritual. No one likes confronting mortality, ...
In Parshat-Acharei-Mot, in its description of the עבודה: the Temple service, of the Cohen Gadol on Yom Kippur, the Torah relates that he performs two וידויים: ‘confessions’, one on each of his two Sin ...
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The purpose of the vidui is to have the entire community atone for its sins; you’re repenting not just for your own shortcomings, but for the shortcomings of the person sitting next to you. Back in ...
As I have sat with so many people as they were dying, I never felt comfortable listening to or reading, the traditional, standard Vidui, as it is. It is so dark, and so filled with gloom, that not one ...
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik points out that Chazal's (Our Sages') usage of the word "vidui"in describing this mitzvah is striking. This term is usually translated as "confession,"and is associated with ...
Raised in a household with Jewish ethical, social, and intellectual values but little prayer of any kind, all my life I have bristled at prayers that ask the Holy One for favors or repent of sins. In ...
According to the Torah, tithes are taken from the crops in two three-year cycles. In each of these two cycles, one-tenth of the produce was given to the Levi who serves in the Temple as ma’aser rishon ...
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