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Precious and Loveable: Kol Nidrei, 2013



 We stand within the community on Yom Kippur and confess the many ways we have fallen short of our own moral expectations. We even have an old custom of hitting ourselves over and over during the “ahl cheits,” the communal recitation of our sins. How many of you learned that tradition growing up?

Tonight I want to talk about how to stop hitting ourselves.