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how many different ways can you say the al chet (על חטא)?

Posted on 2020/09/24 by davka

When I first post­ed these pos­si­bil­i­ties of reimag­in­ing the al chet I did not imag­ine that so many of us would spend an entire Yom Kip­pur online. Now, when our pri­ma­ry con­nec­tion to the Yom Kip­pur litur­gy is via our dig­i­tal devices, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Let’s all do the al chet (1)

Posted on 2017/09/25 by davka

[A slight vari­ant of this page appears here 10 times. In each the text remains essen­tial­ly the same. How­ev­er, I will add a link to a new “sur­vey” each time.] I have writ­ten else­where, that I came to the rab­binate out of “poli­ty” not “piety”. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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