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וידוי הגדול | Vidui HaGadol: The Great Confession, an Al Ḥeyt litany by Michal Talya

Contributor(s):	Michal Talya and Avraham Leader (translation)
Categories:	Yom Kippur
Tags:	ישראל Yisrael, וידוי vidui, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., confession, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, acknowledgment
	This vidui (confession), based on the traditional pattern of Yom Kipur confession, was written around 2011by Michal Talya and is used by several liberal communities in Israel. . . .

עַל חֵטְא | Interpretive Al Ḥeyt for Yom Kippur, by Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater

Contributor(s):	Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater
Categories:	Yom Kippur
Tags:	על חטא Al Ḥeyt, communal confession, paraliturgical vidui, paraliturgical Al Ḥet, וידוי vidui, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession
	The Al Cheyt (literally meaning “For the sin…”) is a confessional litany recited on Yom Kippur. It is an alphabetical acrostic; each one of its verses starting with a successive letter of the aleph-beit, to represent not only the moral failings that are specifically enumerated there, but the fullness of every way in which we missed the mark in the previous year. . . .

ודוי חיובית | Positive Vidui, by Rabbi Avi Weiss

Contributor(s):	Avi Weiss
Categories:	Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur
Tags:	complementary vidui, North America, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., New York, Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, Open Orthodoxy, וידוי vidui, positive self-recognition, acrostic, supplemental vidui
	Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez writes, “Rav Avi spoke to us a few times as he was working through [composing] this [vidui] and I am truly moved by it. Let us not only remember and confess our wrong doings, but also what we did right this year.” . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman
Categories:	Yom Kippur
Tags:	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., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic
	A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . .

על חטא | For the Sin of Torture: A Communal Confession by Rabbi Ed Feld

Contributor(s):	T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Rabbi Edward Feld
Categories:	Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness
Tags:	confession, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, communal confession, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, וידוי vidui, North America, torture, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	For the sin which we have committed before You through diminishing the image of God. . . .

רבון העולמים | Ribon HaOlamim from the Seder Tefilot of the RaMBaM in MS Constantinople 1509

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Moshe Ben Maimon and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags:	L'Olam Yehei Adam, Kohelet, וידוי vidui, confession, English Translation, redemption, Late Antiquity, שמע shema, ne'ila, Yom Kippur, רבון העולמים Ribon haOlamim
	A variation of the prayer Ribon ha-Olamim from the section of prayers preceding Psukei d’Zimrah/Zermirot. . . .

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