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It’s the season for selihot, the penitential prayers and poems that are recited in Sephardic tradition in the pre-dawn hours during the 40 days between the new month of Elul until Yom Kippur. Ashkenazim customarily begin saying selihot on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah.
But in Jerusalem, you’ll find more than a few Ashkenazim who partake in this Sephardic tradition, and I can hear the men in the Sephardic shul next to my house on some early mornings, vying with the call of the muezzin from the nearby Arab village. It’s a curious mix of traditions, which could be why there are Selihot and Ramadan walking tours in the Jewish and Muslim quarters of the Old City during this time of year, as well as Nachlaot, a neighborhood in downtown Jerusalem that’s a mix of the ultra Orthodox, candles and sandals types and some others thrown in for good measure.
A few photos from this spiritual period of year…
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