R. Yerucham Olshin discusses the "Simcha" involved in beginning Selichot. How is there to be joy associated with Selichot? Ashkenazim always begin on Motzaei Shabbos. On Shabbos, between the joy that comes with learning Torah (as Shabbat was given to the Jewish people for Torah… https://t.co/3Id1jQ1gQw
I’m thinking of all of you in my extended mishpacha as we begin Selichot and ramp up to Rosh Hashanah and the rest of the high holidays. I am grateful for #AmYisraelChai and I am grateful for you.
As a member of the Jewish and LGBT Caucuses, I was proud to contribute to a great discussion Saturday at Temple Sinai/Rodef Shalom Selichot on gender identity in Jewish texts, a legislative update on LGBT issues, and a neuropsychiatry-informed approach to sex and gender. https://t.co/Iyx4OGT6BK
@RSolisByx there is a selichot event in Keene and in Amherst today if you’d like to talk to anyone about why you guys just…..didn’t do anything to stop it. You could’ve. You just made an executive decision to not care your best friend has nonconsensual sex with ppl.
At the Kotel with @OzraeliAvi and firefighter Ian from Yellowknife for Selichot (penitential prayers) in Jerusalem, Israel. One can’t describe the feeling. https://t.co/PAEYB868Qu
Saturday night!! Join TBS and Temple Beth-El at Congregation B'nai Torah in Ormond Beach as our 3 synagogues come together for this musical Selichot concert and service. https://t.co/CiT6Dmifg1
attack of Iranian combat drones Shahed on the Kyiv region right now. We have now begun to pray the Selichot prayers of repentance. With prayers and goodness we will defeat evil! https://t.co/b8DG4SPsrQ
— Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman (@RabbiUkraine) September 9, 2023
Selichot in 2023
Selichot (Hebrew: סליחות) means sorry/forgiveness prayers. Selichot are recited from the Sunday before the Jewish New Year until the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).