Monday, August 13, 2018

Elul 18, 5778

Rabbi Eric Linder

Yom Kippur is a profoundly personal holiday. And yet, we recite a communal vidui (confession.) Our machzor calls it an “alphabet of woe,” as we go through various sins and mistakes that we’ve made, starting with the letter A and going through Z.

Not each of us have commented all of those offenses. God forbid! But there is power in knowing that as a community, as a society, and as a country, we have. Our recitation of vidui takes seriously the idea that although specific individuals may not be guilty of certain trespasses,  are all responsible.

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