Selichot
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thumb|300px|Crowd performing Selichot and Annulment of Vows (Neder#Annulment (hatarat nedarim)|Hatarat Nedarim) at the [[Western Wall in Jerusalem.]]
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Key facts
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Leil Selichot
- Holiday.type
- Jewish
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- piyyut
- Image
- Slichot22.JPG
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- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- Commons category
- Selichot
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Selichot of the High Holidays
- Categories of Selichot
- Selichot of Fast Days
- Selichot on other occasions
- Selichot rites
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|Crowd performing Selichot and Annulment of Vows (Neder#Annulment (hatarat nedarim)|Hatarat Nedarim) at the [[Western Wall in Jerusalem.]]
thumb|Selichot prayer leaf (c. 8th–9th century) discovered in the famous Mogao Caves of [[Dunhuang, Gansu, China in 1908 by Paul Pelliot.]] Selichot (, singular: , səliḥā) are Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days. The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy are a central theme throughout these prayers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selichot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.