[Avodah] Selichos and Kinnos

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

I'd like to share a question I have twice a year - at Yomim Nora'im and
Tishah B'Av - and maybe someone can help me with it. Why did the writers of
Selichos and Kinnos do so in such difficult to understand language? Yes,
poetry is evocative, but only if one can understand it! Ve'hu Rachum,
written in prose, is also very evocative, as is - at least to me - the
collection of Pesukim at the beginning of Selichos. So why make it so
difficult on their audience?

 

KT and KVCT,

MYG

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