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607 ‎[1] **“The order of confession (of sins)** **during *Minḥah*** **(the Afternoon Prayer) on the Eve of Yom Kippur” - Containing six paragraphs.**

One needs to confess during *Minḥah* (the Afternoon Prayer) before the (last) meal before fasting.

Hagah*: If one is alone he says it (the confessional) after he finished his Silent Prayer, but the public reader says his (confessional) on Yom Kippur during the Silent Prayer, (טור). ‎[2] There is no need to itemize (to detail) (the description of) the sin, but if one wants to detail it he has the permission to do so, but if one confesses silently (i.e., just moving one’s lips but not speaking audibly), it is appropriate to detail the sin.
Hagah*: But when one prays outloud or the reader, when he repeats the prayer, they do not detail the sin. But saying the prayer “על חטא” in alphabetical order, is not called itemizing (detailing) since everyone says it equally, therefore it is only like a text of a prayer, (ד״ע). ‎[3] One has to confess standing up and even if one (the confessor) hears it from the reader and he has already confessed, he still must stand.
Hagah*: And one should again confess with the reader, (ר״ן פ״ב דר״ה); the essence of the confession is “but we sinned”, (טור). ‎[4] Sins that were confessed about on the past Yom Kippur and one did not repeat them, nonetheless he may again confess them. ‎[5] During the *Minḥah* Prayer on the Eve of Yom Kippur one does not conclude the Prayer with a confession after it.
Hagah*: The reader does not repeat the confession during the *Minḥah* Prayer, rather he prays the *Amidah* like on the rest of the days of the year, (טור, ומרדכי). and does not say the prayer “אבינו מלכנו”, (see the end of chapter 614), and all the moreso not the prayers of supplication (*taḥanun*). ‎[6] The entire congregation (every Jewish member of the community) receives forty lashes after the *Minḥah* Prayer, for because of it he will take to heart to turn away (and repent) from his transgressions.
Hagah:* It was customary that the one being flogged say the confessions, *vidduim*, at the time that he was flogged, and that the flogger say, “And He (God) pities and will atone sins…” (Psalms 78:38), three times which equals thirty-nine words corresponding to the thirty-nine lashes, (this is a custom). And it is customary to whip with a little strap because this (flogging) is merely a remembrance to the genuine flogging. One should take a strap of calfskin, corresponding to the Biblical verse, “the ox knows his owner and the ass his master’s crib,” (Isaiah 1:3), (כל בו), The one who is flogged shall not stand nor shall he sit, but he should be in a slanting position, (מנהגים), with his face to the north and his rear should be to the south, (מהרי״ל). Yom Kippur only atones for the repenters who believe in its (Yom Kippur’s) atonement. However, one who despises it and thinks to himself, “how can this Yom Kippur help me,” Yom Kippur does not atone for him, (רמב״ם פ״ג מהלכות שגגות).

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Version: Hilkhot Yom ha-Kippurim, trans. by Jan M. Brahms. HUC, 1976

Source: http://library.huc.edu/pdf/theses/Brahms_Jan_M-CN-Rab-1976_rdf.pdf

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