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Chayei Adam - K’lal 144 - Laws of Erev Yom Kippur

of their life, and may beracha come forth from you, and Hashem should prepare
your livelihood in a permitted way, with ease and comfort from His wide hand,
and not through the gifts of flesh and blood, a livelihood that should enable you
to be free to serve Hashem, and may you be written and sealed for a good long
life among all the righteous Jews. Amein”.

]20[ After this, he should go to shul in fear and trepidation. The custom in our
community is that in every shul, they take out the sefer Torah from the aron
ha’kodesh as is written in the writings of the Arizal, and the nusach he wrote is
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printed in Sefer Chemdas Hayamim. However, not everyone can understand it if
he is not learned in kabbalah. For one who doesn’t understand it, it is like a sealed
document. Therefore, I have copied a nusach from earlier sources which is written
in a much lighter language. According to many authorities, the mitzva of vidui is
supposed to be recited just before nightfall, and it is proper for one to say it. 78

םדו רשב

Rivka, Rochel, and Leah” instead. Chemdas Hayamim prints a nusach which the
Airizal authored, to be recited then, but it is
77. The Arizal writes to remove the Torah deeply rooted in kabbalah and difficult for the
scrolls from the aron ha’kodesh before saying layman to understand. Much of the ideas
Kol Nidrei and that it is a tremendous segulah contained within are incorporated into the
to hold one of them during Kol Nidrei. The Tefilas Zakah written by the Chayei Adam.
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