Selihot
In the presence of a minyan, the following is added here.
During the Ten Penitential days between Rosh Hashanna and Kippur, the following is added.
During the Ten Penitential days between Rosh Hashanna and Kippur, the following is added.
Sung by the congregation:
The following section used to be merely read, but is today sung to a tune from the Moroccan tradition that has become widely used in many Sephardi communities.
During the Ten Penitential days between Rosh Hashanna and Kippur, the following is added.
Psalm 25 is said silently here, with the head bowed on the left arm, as during Tahanun in Shaharit and Minha.
The following is sung by hazzan and congregation alternately (one verse by the hazzan, the next by the congregation, and so on).
Each line is sung by the hazzan and repeated by the congregation.
Kaddish Titkabal is said. During the Ten Penitential Days an extra section “Te’anu” is inserted,as on the High Hilidays themselves, and the shofar is sounded.
Selihot at night
It is the S&P custom, going back at least 350 years, to say certain selihot along with the Evening Service, immediately after the Amidah and before Kaddish Titkabal.
The custom continues today in both Amsterdam and New York, however in London it was recently discontinued in deference to a ruling by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, based on kabbalistic tradition, that selihot should not be said before midnight.
The following is an example of the first of the evening selihot, which is the only one that does not also occur in the morning version. The chant used is the regular New Year chant for biblical verses.
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