During the month of Elul that precedes Rosh Hashanah, additional penitential prayers called Selichot are added to the daily prayers, except on Shabbat.

Among Sephardi Jews, Selichot are recited at dawn on weekdays throughout the month.

If, however, the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Monday or Tuesday, Selichot are said beginning the Saturday night prior to ensure that Selichot are recited at least four times.

Sephardic Selichot services are identical each day.

Selichot are usually recited between midnight and dawn.

On minor fast days ( besides the Fast of Gedaliah, whose Selichot are preempted by the Selichot of the High Holidays ), some communities recite Selichot after the conclusion of the Shacharit Amidah.

Selichot are not recited on the major fast day of Tisha B ' Av.

Among Sephardi Jews, prayers known as " Selichot " ( forgiveness ) are recited before the regular morning service ( these are the same prayers recited before Rosh Hashanah ).

In some communities, the cantor wears it during certain special services during the year, such as the first night of Selichot, the seventh day of the Holiday of Sukkot ( also known as Hoshanah Rabbah ), the Musaf prayers of Shemini Atzeret and the first day of Passover, where the prayers for rain ( Tefilat HaGeshem ) and dew ( Tefilat HaTal ) are respectively recited.

# In the early morning of work-days, before the regular morning service, Selichot are read in a form or order very much like that observed on the night of Day of Atonement.

However, Talmudic literature shows that evidence of Jewish prayers to angels and other intermediaries existed in the 1st century CE, and several examples of post-Talmudic prayers exist, including a familiar piyyut ( liturgical song ) entitled " Usherers of Mercy ," recited before and after Rosh Hashanah in Selichot ( Jewish penitential prayers ).

* Jewish Virtual Library article on Selichot

Rashi wrote several Selichot ( penitential poems ) mourning the slaughter and the destruction of the region's great yeshivot.

Prayer services begin with the Kol Nidrei prayer, which must be recited before sunset, and continue with the evening prayers ( Ma ' ariv or Arvith ), which includes an extended Selichot service.

Throughout the night in the synagogues, Torah learning takes place as well as praying the Selichot prayers.

Certain Selichot prayers also take the form of a litany during the month of Elul.

In the Sephardic tradition, recital of Selichot in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the Hebrew month of Elul.

Seven of Rashi's Selichot still exist, including Adonai Elohei Hatz ' vaot ", which is recited on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, and Az Terem Nimtehu, which is recited on the Fast of Gedalia.

Ashkenazi Jews begin the recitation of selichot with a special service between solar mid-night ( not 12: 00 ) and morning light on the first day of Selichot.

This may be because originally the pious would fast for ten days during the season of repentance, and four days before Rosh Hashanah were added to compensate for the four of the Ten days of Repentance on which fasting is forbidden-the two days of Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat Shuvah, and the day preceding Yom Kippur-and, while the fasts have since been abandoned, the Selichot that accompanied them have been retained.

Arguably the most important and certainly most popular night of Selichot in the Ashkenazi tradition is the first night, when many women and girls as well as men and boys attend the late-night service on Saturday night.

" This Selichah begins to appear on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in the Tachanun section, at the very end of the Selichot service.

In contemporary Judaism, many congregations offer a Selichot service near midnight on the Saturday night preceding the Ten Days of Repentance.

Selichot.

Selichot prayer leaf ( c. 8th-9th century ) discovered in the famous Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu province, China in 1908 by Paul Pelliot.

Selichot refers to both the poetic piyyutim that compose the service as well as to the service itself.

This night also has more Selichot than any other night prior to Rosh Hashanah eve.

" This is the default Selichah and comprises the vast majority of the Selichot service.

" These central Selichot vary according to the day and contain a chorus which is repeated after each stanza.

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