[Avodah] 13 Middos

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

I passionately recommend printing up
<http://www.shemayisrael.com/13middos.pdf>.

It explains the 13 Middos as found in Shemos and therefore Selichos
in terms of the version in Michah and the Tomer Devorah thereon.

Rather than repeating the same words / names over and over throughout
selichos and much of Yom Kippur, it can become an opportunity to commit
and recommit to emulating them.

As the gemara (RH 17b) says 
    Whenver Israel sin, they shall perform before Me like this structure
    (ya'asu lefanai keseider zeh), and I will forgive them.

Hashem doesn't ask us to say the pesuqim, He asks us to do them.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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