{"id":10110,"date":"2014-05-02T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T10:06:37","slug":"15-02-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/15-02-02\/","title":{"rendered":"02. The Basis for the Custom of Reciting <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Jews have a custom, extending back to the times of the Ge\u2019onim, to wake up early during the Ten Days of Repentance to recite <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em>. This is done primarily to inspire people to repent, ask God for forgiveness and atonement, and beg Him to be merciful to His exiled and suffering people. We ask that He not look at our sins and transgressions, but rather that He remember His covenant with our ancestors and with us. We ask Him to remember the sacrifice of Yitz\u1e25ak and all the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to sanctify His name. We also pray for the ingathering of the exiles, the rebuilding of Eretz Yisrael, Jerusalem, and the Temple, and the return of the <em>Shekhina<\/em> to Zion. It is customary to recite <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em> specifically during the Ten Days of Repentance because it is a time of judgment and prayer is more readily accepted then. It is proper for every individual to join the community and pray fervently for the Jewish people, for the <em>Shekhina<\/em> to dwell among us, and for God\u2019s name to be sanctified in the world. Through this, one\u2019s personal prayers will be accepted as well.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, we find that the prophets encouraged the Jews to gather together in times of trouble to fast, pray, and beg God to have mercy on His people and His land. Thus, we read:<\/p>\n<p>Blow a shofar in Zion; solemnize a fast; proclaim an assembly! Gather the people; bid the congregation purify themselves. Bring together the old, gather the babes and the sucklings at the breast. Let the bridegroom come out of his chamber, the bride from her canopied couch. Between the portico and the altar, let the priests, the Lord\u2019s ministers, weep and say: \u201cOh, spare Your people, Lord! Let not Your possession become a mockery, to be taunted by nations! Let not the peoples say, \u2018Where is their god?\u2019\u201d Then the Lord will be roused on behalf of His land and have compassion upon His people. (Yoel 2:15-18)<\/p>\n<p>Together with reciting <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em> and prayers, we must repent and improve our behavior. Thus, during this time period, it is customary to recite <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em>, to study works of <em>musar <\/em>(ethical improvement), and to have sermons that exhort us to repent. Some have the custom to have sermons before <em>Seli\u1e25ot<\/em>, to rebuke and inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Jews have a custom, extending back to the times of the Ge\u2019onim, to wake up early during the Ten Days of Repentance to recite Seli\u1e25ot. This is done primarily to inspire people to repent, ask God for forgiveness and atonement, and beg Him to be merciful to His exiled and suffering people. We ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-02"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>02. 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