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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Founded 2002, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights - North America) is a multi-denominational rabbinical organization dedicated to giving voice to the tradition of human rights in Judaism.
After the Aliyot | Slavery & Captivity | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | 🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st) | Elections & Voting | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Magid | 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag | Planting | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty | 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar) | 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day)
116th Congress | 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests | 45th President of the United States | activism | על חטא Al Ḥeyt | all inhabitants | civic prayers | communal confession | community organizing | confession | democracy | ecumenical prayers | English vernacular prayer | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | Freedom | haggadah supplements | Hebrew translation | human trafficking | Immigration policy of Donald Trump | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Liberal Zionist Prayers | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | מי שברך mi sheberakh | Needing Translation (into Hebrew) | Needing Proofreading | Needing Vocalization | North America | North American Jewry | Progressive Zionism | slavery | social justice | תחינות teḥinot | the Occupation | torture | Trump administration family separation policy | צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof | United States | United States General Election 2016 | United States Immigration Policy | וידוי vidui | voting | ישראל Yisrael | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
על חטא | For the Sin of Torture: A Communal Confession by Rabbi Ed Feld
Contributed on: 19 Sep 2012 by T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights | Rabbi Edward Feld | ❧
This liturgy is based on the traditional public confession of sins on Yom Kippur and is meant to complement the existing al ḥet found in the maḥzor. This prayer written by Rabbi Ed Feld in 2007 for Yom Kippur 5768 was first published at the website of RHR-NA (now T’ruah). . . .
