This series accompanies the days from Rosh Hodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, in the Sephardic rite.
All the studies are online, each one in three languages. Each exists in French, English and Hebrew.
Each study gives its sources — verse, Talmud, commentators — and separates what is explicit from what is a reading.
Practical indications follow Sephardic usage as recorded in Yalkut Yosef and Hazon Ovadia. For a personal case, ask your Rav.
Seven pages online: the prayers, Selihot, the Thirteen Attributes, teshuva, Tikun Hatsot, Leah and Rahel, the Kaddish.
The seven central texts of the Sephardic rite: vocalised Hebrew, Latin-letter pronunciation, English translation. Adon HaSelihot, Ben Adam, El Melekh Yoshev, the Thirteen Attributes, the vidui, Shema Kolenu.
Open the prayersWhy forty days, why ashmoret haboker, how the Sephardic custom differs from the Ashkenazi one, and what Selihot are not.
Read the studyThe heart of the text: the teaching of Rosh Hashana 17b, the meaning of “slow to anger”, the difficulty of “venake lo yenake”, and how they are recited.
Read the studyWhat the Rambam actually requires, why ten days, and the line Yom Kippur does not cross: offences against other people.
Read the studyKing David's harp, the three watches of the night, Tikun Rahel and Tikun Leah, and why midnight opens the night of Selihot.
Read the studyTwo women, two tears: the one who weeps before the decree and the one who weeps after the exile. What the verse says, what the Midrash says.
Read the studyWhat it says, what it does not say — the word “death” does not appear once — and why ten are needed.
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Five questions on the whole series.
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