{"id":1736,"date":"2018-06-20T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/06\/20\/selichot-prayers-of-repentance"},"modified":"2018-07-03T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T09:46:47","slug":"selichot-prayers-of-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/06\/20\/selichot-prayers-of-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Selichot: Prayers of Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/selichot-prayers-of-repentance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/author\/rabbi-dr-reuven-hammer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer<\/a>\u00a0explains the origins, significance and structure of selichot &#8211; the special prayers recited during the High Holiday season and on Jewish fast days. Noting both Ashkenazi and Sephardic customs, this article focuses\u00a0on the recitation\u00a0of these prayers prior to Rosh Hashanah. Rabbi Hammer describes these prayers as a way to arouse our own desire for change as well as God&#8217;s mercy, with an explanation\u00a0of The Thirteen Attributes, a text repeated throughout the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy.<\/em><em>\u00a0An excerpt from Rabbi Hammer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2x1EBww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Entering the High Holy Days,&#8221;<\/a> this article was shared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Jewish Learning<\/a>, a website empowering Jewish discovery for anyone interested in learning more.\u00a0Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer is\u00a0one of the founders of the Masorti Movement in Israel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer\u00a0explains the origins, significance and structure of selichot &#8211; the special prayers recited during the High Holiday season and on Jewish fast days. Noting both Ashkenazi and Sephardic customs, this article focuses\u00a0on the recitation\u00a0of these prayers prior to Rosh Hashanah. Rabbi Hammer describes these prayers as a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}