This episode of Ways of Awe features the Al Cheyt prayer, one of the central atonement prayers of Yom Kippur–a primary part of the Vidui, or Confession.

Show Notes

Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh, and Peter Lippman, and Jimmy Austin for our show music, and to Jenny Asarnow for their field recordings. Thank you to the Jack Straw Cultural Center Artist Support Program, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Smart Ventures Program, and Signal Fire Coop. Thank you to the members of our community who lent their prayer-voices to this episode: Tzali Loren. Thank you to Hannah Epstein for designing our promotional images.

Thank you to our guests for this episode:

Binya Kóatz is a sefardi / ashki / moroccan / argentinean / ukranian / french trans jewish torah-lover, who teaches, sings, organizes jewish community. She is originally from Queens, and resides on Ohlone Land in the East Bay. Person/comedian: @binya_donethat. Drag: @auntie.semitism. Band: @krekhts. Organizing: @jswana.bay. Yeshiva: @shelmaalayeshiva

Some sources that informed this episode:

• About Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimondes)
• About the SVARA Yeshiva Learning Method and the Crash Talk
• Kabbalistic Sources about Tzimtzum (the idea of G-d’s constriction during creation)

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