Adon HaS’lichot A Song of forgiveness REFRAIN: חָ ָ ֽ ט אבוּ לְ פַ נֶ ֽ י� – Chatanu l’fanecha רַ ֵ ח ם ﬠַ לֵ ֽ ינוּ. !rachaim aleinu We have strayed and we have sinned. Show us compassion.

אֲ דוֹן הַ סְּ לִ יחוֹת Adon has’lichot בּוֹחֵ ן לְ בַ בוֹת Bochein l’vavot גּוֹלֶה ﬠֲמֻ קּוֹת Goleh amukot דּוֹבֵ ר צְ דָ ק וֹ ת Doveir ts’dakot God of forgiveness – You examine the heart, reveal its depth, speak what is right.

2 REFRAIN: Chatanu l’fanecha – rachaim aleinu!

We have strayed and we have sinned. Show us compassion.

Hadur b’nifla·ot Vatik b’nechamot Zocheir b’rit avot Chokeir k’layot

Majestic in wonders, ancient Source of comfort – You recall our ancestors' covenant. seek out our innermost being.

3 REFRAIN: Chatanu l’fanecha – rachaim aleinu!

We have strayed and we have sinned. Show us compassion.

Tov umeitiv lab’riyot Yodei·a kol nistarot Koveish avonot Loveish tz’dakot

Soul of goodness – You bestow goodness and know all mysteries. Arrayed in righteousness, You overcome sin.

REFRAIN: Chatanu l’fanecha – rachaim aleinu!

We have strayed and we have sinned. Show us compassion.

------ADON HAS'LICHOT. Excerpt of a Sephardic penitential poem for Elul and Yom Kippur; author unknown.

4 5 6 7 8 Baruch atah, Adonai, hamavdil bein kodesh l’chol. Adonai, Source of blessings, You distinguish the holy from the everyday.

9 10 11 12 מִ רְ ָ י ם הַ נְּ בִ י אָ ת, עֹ ז וְ זִ מְ רָ ה בְּ ָ י דָ הּ, מִ רְ ָ י ם תִּ רְ ֹק ד אִ תָּ ֽ נ וּ ְ ל הַ גְ דִּ י ל זִ מְ רַ ת עוֹלָ ם.

Miryam han’viah – oz v’zimrah b’yadah. Miryam tirkod itanu l’hagdil zimrat olam;

Miriam the prophet – the power of song is in her hand. Miriam will dance among us and the music will be heard far and wide.

13 מִ רְ ָ י ם תִּ רְ ֹק ד אִ תָּ ֽ נ וּ לְ תַ קֵּ ן אֶ ת הָ ע וֹ לָ ם. בִּ מְ הֵ רָ ה בְ יָמֵֽ ינוּ הִיא תְּ ִ ב י אֵ ֽ נ וּ אֶל מֵ י הַ יְ שׁ וּ עָ ה.

Miryam tirkod itanu l’takein et haolam. Bimheirah v’yameinu hi t’vi·einu el mei haishuah.

Miriam will dance among us to mend our world of suffering. May she lead us, in our time, without delay, to the waters of help and healing.

14 Take us back, Adonai – let us come back to you. Renew in our time the days of old.

Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul. Return to who you are, return to what you are, return to where you are Born and reborn again.

15 16 17 THE PSALMIST SANG: At midnight I rise to give thanks and praise. . . .

And so we come to this hour of S'lichot under the canopy of night to celebrate goodness, to proclaim what is right and true -- to praise, to thank, to bless the great Giver who gives and renews our lives.

We turn to loved ones, to friends, and to our people everywhere – the whole House of Israel. And our hearts turn toward the human family; we pray for its healing. Yet, hardest of all is the inward gaze, the return to our self, the honest reckoning of the soul: cheshbon hanefesh.

18 We ask: How to account for selfish acts, lies, and senseless anger? How to account for the shadows, the storms, the bitterness in our lives – the damage and distress we cause? How to own up to it all – and find our way back, with integrity, in peace?

We ask: Have we the will to change? And if not now, when?

19 20 For Personal Reflection . . . What is unresolved in my heart? What questions are on my mind? What is unclear, uncertain, and Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart. ... unsettled in my life? What decisions have I been Try to love the questions themselves. ... Do not now seek putting off or avoiding? the answers. which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them -and the point is to live everything. Is there one change I would like to make in the way Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, I am living my life and relating to other people? without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. When I look over my "accounts," what do I see? Which personal qualities need repair and What is the nature of my cheshbon hanefesh this year? strengthening? What habits of mind, character, What should be my focus, as I examine my deeds and behavior need correction? and my direction, from now until Yom Kippur? Which relationships in my life are most challenging at this time?

21 22 23 24 WE ARE TAUGHT: Days are scrolls. Write on them only what you want remembered. But we remember our weakness, And our days bear the mark of all that went wrong. On this night we have hope in the One who sustains us.

Though we stumble and falter, You promise forgiveness. If we stray from the truth, You do not forsake us. If we sink to the depths, Your mercy uplifts us. If our urges betray us, Your compassion is endless. If we distance ourselves, You do not disdain us. If we abandon Your teachings, still You embrace us. If we seek You sincerely, Your presence surrounds us. If we pray from the heart, You listen with Yours. Though we stumble and falter, we are blessed by Your promise.

25 Our God and God of our ancestors --

Ki anu amecha, v'atah Eloheinu; anu vanecha, v'atah avinu. Anu avadecha, v'atah adoneinu; anu k'halecha, v'atah chelkeinu. Anu nachalatecha, v'atah goraleinu; anu tzonecha, v'atah ro·einu.

We are Your people; and You are our God. We are Your children; and You are our father, our mother. We are the people who serve You; and You call us to serve. We are Your community; and You are our portion. We are Your legacy; and You are our purpose. We are Your flock; and You are our shepherd.

26 Anu charmecha, v'atah notreinu; anu f'ulatecha, v'atah yotzreinu. Anu rayatecha, v'atah dodeinu; anu s'gulatecha, v'atah k'roveinu. Anu amecha, v'atah malkeinu; anu maamirecha, v'atah maamireinu.

We are Your vineyard; and You watch over us. We are Your work; and You are our maker. We are Your beloved; and You are our lover. We are Your treasure; and You are the One we cherish. We are Your people; and You reign over us. We offer You our words; and You offer us Yours.

So forgive us, pardon us, lead us to atonement.

27 ( PLEASE RISE ) Adonai, Adonai – God, compassionate, gracious, endlessly patient, loving and true; Showing mercy to the thousandth generation; Forgiving evil, defiance, and wrongdoing; granting pardon.

29 The Elders

We rise now to honor them, Our elders from whom we have learned stories and lessons, with whom we have studied and worshiped and celebrated the passages of life and time, Our elders who have taught us goodness, honesty, and the sanctity of life, whose mantles are woven with threads of memory, embroidered with silver and gold, majestic folds of silk and velvet, in royal hues befitting their rank, as brilliant as the sun.

30 We rise now to honor them, as they put aside these every-day mantles of splendor and don their sacred garments, the vestments of purity and holiness befitting the Days of Awe so soon approaching. Each in its turn is fitted with wimple, mantle, and crowns, each more stunning than the last. Majestic folds of velvet and silk to clothe the holy words; a canvas of purest white, as brilliant as the moon. The holy season has now begun, and the elders, in their yontif clothes, stand proud and tall before us, beacons of wisdom and light, reminders of the holiness we seek on this new day in Elul.

------THE ELDERS, By Lisa Rauchwerger (b. 1965).

31 Now this is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel after these days -- declares the Eternal:

I will place My Torah deep inside them and I will write it on their heart. And I will be to them God, and they will be to Me a people.

No longer will friend teach friend and kin say to kin, "Know the Eternal" -- all of them, small and great, will know Me -- declares the Eternal.

For I will forgive their acts of injustice, and their wrongful deeds I will no longer remember.

32

Ki lekach tov natati lachem: Torati. Al-taazovu.

A precious teaching I have given you: My Torah. Do not forsake it.

34 Etz-chayim hi lamachazikim bah; v'tom'cheha m'ushar. D'racheha darchei-no·am, v'chol-n'tivoteha shalom. Hashiveinu, Adonai, eilecha - v'nashuvah. Chadeish yameinu k'kedem.

A Tree of Life to those who hold it fast: all who embrace it know happiness. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Take us back, Adonai -- let us come back to You. Renew in our time the days of old.

35 ( PLEASE BE SEATED ) There are those who struggle for a day, and they are good. There are those who struggle for a year, and they are better. There are those who struggle for a life-time: they are the indispensable ones.

37 Vidui -- Confession

AS THE DAYS OF AWE NEAR, we reach for the Infinite; mindful of our frailty, we seek the Holy. Despite our mortality, we carry within us the Ancient of Days. Despite loneliness within, we sense that we belong to a single soul -- a spirit that fills the entire universe. Let us find in that universal spirit a new source of strength and significance: more compassion, more generosity, more gratitude for life. Let our hearts be open to self-reckoning; and may we grasp how vital to our lives is t'shuvah -- the path of return. On this night of forgiveness, we confess our wrongs, and take account of sins, failures of judgment, weakness of will. The hour is late, our need to be forgiven profound.

38 Eloheinu v'Elohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, tavo l'fanecha t'filateinu; v'al titalam mit'chinateinu.

39 Anachnu azei fanim ukshei oref lomar l'fanecha, Adonai Eloheinu v'Elohei avoteinu v'imoteinu: Tzadikim anachnu, v'lo chatanu. Aval anachnu chatanu.

40 41 42 43 44 Al Cheit -- Ways We Have Wronged, Harm We Have Caused

Al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b‘ones uvratzon. The ways we have wronged You under duress and by choice.

Al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b‘zadon uvishgagah. The harm we have caused in Your world deliberately and by mistake.

Al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha bagalui uvasater. The ways we have wronged You openly and secretly.

45 V’al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b‘yodim uvlo yodim. The harm we have caused in Your world consciously and unconsciously.

Al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b’sinat chanam. The ways we have wronged You by hating without cause.

V’al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha birchilut. The harm we have caused in Your world through gossip and rumor.

46 Al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b’tzarut-ayin. The ways we have wronged You through selfish or petty spirit.

V’al cheit shechatanu l’fanecha b’imutz halev. The harm we have caused in Your world by hardening our hearts.

V’al kulam, Elo·ah s’lichot, s‘lach lanu, m’chal lanu, kaper-lanu. For all these failures of judgement and will, God of forgiveness -- forgive us, pardon us, lead us to atonement.

47 Sh'ma koleinu, Adonai Eloheinu. Chus v'racheim aleinu. V'kabeil b'rachamim uvratzon et t'filateinu. Hashiveinu, Adonai, eilecha -- v'nashuvah; chadeish yameinu k'kedem.

Hear our call, Adonai our God. Show us compassion. Accept our prayer with love and goodwill. Take us back, Adonai; let us come back to You; renew our days as in the past.

48 Hear our call, Adonai our God. Show us compassion. Accept our prayer with love and goodwill. Take us back, Adonai; let us come back to You; renew our days as in the past.

Hear our words, Adonai; understand our unspoken thoughts. May the speech of our mouth and our heart's quiet prayer be acceptable to You, Adonai, our Rock and our Redeemer.

Do not cast us away from Your presence, or cut us off from Your holy spirit.

Do not cast us away when we are old; as our strength diminishes, do not forsake us. Do not forsake us, Adonai; be not far from us, our God. With hope, Adonai, we await You; surely, You, Adonai our God – You will answer.

49 Adonai, Adonai -- El rachum v’chanun; Erech apayim, v’rav-chesed ve·emet; Notzeir chesed laalafim; Nosei avon vafesha v’chataah; v‘nakeih.

Adonai, Adonai -- God, compassionate, gracious, endlessly patient, loving, and true; showing mercy to the thousandth generation; forgiving evil, defiance, and wrongdoing; granting pardon.

50 RETURN NOW, ISRAEL, to the One who forgives For you have fallen because of your sin.

Return, as the shrill sound of the shofar That rises from the spiral of the ram's horn toward heaven.

Take words with you and return to the Eternal.

I will be to Israel like dew; They shall blossom like the lily.

Return, as the leaves in spring, renewed and beautiful.

Stretch out your arms to God and return, Like a child to her mother, to love and peace.

51 52 ( PLEASE RISE ) Forgive us, Avinu -- we have sinned. Pardon us, Malkeinu -- we have transgressed; for You are the one who pardons and forgives.

Or maybe it's this way: Forgive us, Avinu. Pardon us, Malkeinu. And God replies: No, it's you. You are the one who must pardon and forgive.

Forgive the ones around you; you're wasting precious time. Forgive your parents; they did the best they could. Forgive the one who betrayed you; let go of anger and move on. Forgive yourself . . . for your own imperfection.

54 Avinu Malkeinu, sh’ma koleinu. Avinu Malkeinu -- Almighty and Merciful -- hear our voice.

Avinu Malkeinu, chatanu l’fanecha. Avinu Malkeinu -- we have strayed and sinned before You.

Avinu Malkeinu, chamol aleinu v’al olaleinu v’tapeinu. Avinu Malkeinu -- have compassion on us and our families.

55 Avinu Malkeinu, kaleih dever v’cherev v’raav mei·aleinu. Avinu Malkeinu -- halt the onslaught of sickness, violence, and hunger.

Avinu Malkeinu, kaleih kol tzar umastin mei·aleinu. Avinu Malkeinu -- halt the reign of those who cause pain and terror.

56 Avinu Malkeinu, kotveinu b’sefer chayim tovim. Avinu Malkeinu -- enter out names in the Book of Lives Well Lived.

Avinu Malkeinu, chadeish aleinu shanah tovah.

Avinu Malkeinu -- renew for us a year of goodness.

57 Avinu Malkeinu, choneinu vaaneinu; ki ein banu maasim. Aseih imanu tz’dakah vachesed, v’hoshi·einu.

Avinu Malkeinu – Almighty and Merciful – answer us with grace, for our deeds are wanting. Save us through acts of justice and love.

58 The shofar is sounded.

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