Throughout Israel: Crowds at 1st Slichot service for Ashkenazi Jews Saturday night. Sephardi Jews have been saying them since start of Elul.
By Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 9/26/2011, 4:44 AM
Slichot prayers
Israel news photo: Shimon Bar Mokha/News 24
Scores of people were turned away on Saturday night as they attempted to enter – not a theatre, movie premier, concert or four star restaurant – but the packed-to-the-rafters Great Synagogue of Jerusalem. And this in order to pray for forgiveness for past sins.
The Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that ushers in the Jewish New Year, is the first night on which the Ashkenazi community recites the pre-High Holiday slichot [penitential] prayers, and world-famous Cantor Chaim Adler was to lead them at the capital’s Great Synagogue accompanied by a choir led by conductor Eli Jaffe.
Prior to the prayers, Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar spoke at the synagogue, talking of repentance, the need for Jewish unity, and the courage to face unflinchingly the developments in the UN and the Palestinian Authority. Read the rest on: Arutz7
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