Contributor(s): Daniel Yoel Cohen
Shared on ז׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:  Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Self-Reflection
Tags:  וידוי vidui, repentance, integrity, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acknowledgment, paraliturgical vidui 
Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . .
Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Naomi Socher-Lerner
Shared on י׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״פ (2019-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui 
The Yom Kippur vidui — confession — translated by Naomi Socher-Lerner. . . .
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. . . .
Contributor(s): Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman
Shared on ט׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ה (2014-10-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui, Maale Gilboa, acknowledgment, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, ישראל Yisrael 
A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . .
A Viddui written for Jews who are losing a beloved to a plague, and who may not be able to be physically present or close to their loved one. . . .
Traditional Judaism offers a confessional prayer, or vidui, to be recited during a time of serious illness or near death. If the patient is unable to recite the prayer, others may do so on his or her behalf. This modern adaptation [of vidui] places less emphasis on atonement for sins, and more on the bonds connecting the patient to his or her loved ones. It can be recited by a friend, family member, or chaplain on behalf of a person who is very ill, especially when life and death are hanging in the balance. . . .
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. . . .
This prayer is not a comprehensive list of every single sin we sinned, every error we erred, every mark we missed. The original Al Ḥeyt is intended to show us the roots of all failures, to dig beneath how we harm, to see where that hurt came from. We follow these trails together, not absolved from our own repairs, but never alone in struggles to uproot, to propagate new ways of being ourselves, new ways of being ourselves, of being together. . . .
Judy Gumbo co-authored this Al Ḥeit with her partner Stew Albert, ז״ל, before his passing in 2006. This Al Ḥeit was most recently used as part of Yom Kippur Kol Nidre services across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street 5772. . . .
Contributor(s): Avi Weiss
Shared on כ״ז באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, North America, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., New York, Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, Open Orthodoxy, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary 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.” . . .
Trisha Arlin first published this prayer for a communal confession on Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot on her liturgy site, here. Elements of this vidui (confession) are derived from the Kavvanah before Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot (New Year’s Day for Domesticated Animals). . . .
Contributor(s): Miriam Rubin
Shared on ט״ו באלול ה׳תשע״ג (2013-08-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, סליחות seliḥot, North America, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., New York, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, Prayers to self, Correspondence to self, Correspondence as prayer 
A prayer of forgiveness to convey to one’s inner and vulnerable self during the period of sometimes unrelenting and harsh introspection prior to the blessing for rain. . . .
Contributor(s): T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Rabbi Edward Feld
Shared on ד׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ג (2012-09-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness
Tags: וידוי vidui, North America, torture, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., confession, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, communal confession 
For the sin which we have committed before You through diminishing the image of God. . . .
A supplement to the Al Ḥet of the Yom Kippur vidui. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Moshe Ben Maimon and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ח באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: וידוי vidui, English Translation, redemption, Late Antiquity, שמע shema, ne'ila, Yom Kippur, רבון העולמים Ribon haOlamim, L'Olam Yehei Adam, Kohelet, confession 
A variation of the prayer Ribon ha-Olamim from the section of prayers preceding Psukei d’Zimrah/Zermirot. . . .
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg
Shared on י׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ב (2011-10-07) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use)
Categories: Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes
Tags: 20th century C.E., eco-conscious, וידוי vidui, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על חטא Al Ḥeyt, communal confession 
Eternal God, You created earth and heavens with mercy, and blew the breath of life into animals and human beings. We were created amidst a world of wholeness, a world called “very good,” pure and beautiful, but now your many works are being erased by us from the book of life. . . .
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