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“Avinu Malkeinu,” dvar tefillah by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

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David Seidenberg

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Yom Kippur

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commentary as prayer, d'var t'fillah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, שבת תשובה Shabbat Tshuvah, paraliturgical avinu malkeinu, אבינו מלכינו avinu malkeinu

The words of Avinu Malkeinu are a little different from the standard translation. It doesn’t say in Hebrew, “we have no good deeds” (ein lanu ma’asim tovim), but rather, “there are no deeds in us” (ein banu ma’asim). The p’shat (literal meaning) implies that whatever we have done in the past does not have to live inside of us — we can release our deeds and be released from them, fully, to start over, like a newborn, to become whoever we need to become. . . .

מתי לא לבקש סליחה | When not to seek forgiveness, by Josh Rosenberg

Contributor(s):

Josh Rosenberg

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Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Separation, Self-Reflection

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Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., self-forgiveness, Due deferrence, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, סליחות seliḥot

A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . .

הַוִּדּוּי הַמַּשְׁלִים | HaVidui haMashlim (Complementary Confession), by Rabbi Binyamin Holtzman

Contributor(s):

Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman

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Yom Kippur

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58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui, וידוי vidui, Maale Gilboa, acrostic, acknowledgment, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, ישראל Yisrael, 21st century C.E.

A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . .

Betrachtungen für die zehn Bußtage | Reflections for the Ten Days of Penance, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah

“Betrachtungen für die zehn Bußtage” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №42 on pp. 53-56. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №41 pp. 64-68. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №43 on pp. 67-71. . . .