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The brief prayer which interrupts and divides into three sections the longer confession of sins enumerated in alphabetical order (see 'Al Ḥeṭ) in the prayers of the Day of Atonement. The traditional melody presents many variants besides the foregoing (comp. the Polish and German renderings given in Baer's "Ba'al Tefillah," No. 1357), all of which are based on the plaintive phrases of the wail which pervades the SELIḤAH.

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