Guide
Poetic Penitential Prayers (Seliḥot) for Yom Kippur
4th–6th Centuries
In Hebrew, these prayers are alphabetical acrostics.
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’Ashamnu mi-kol ‘am (More Guilty Are We Than All Other Peoples)
More guilty are we than all other peoples,
More ashamed than all other generations.
Mirth has departed from us.…
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’Ana habet u-r’eh (Please, Look and See!)
Please, look and see!
The waters have reached our nostrils,
we have been sorely and angrily rebuked,…