"Warning: The Following Prayer May Be Dangerous to Your Spiritual Health. Recite with Caution, and Only with the Proper Intention."
When was the last time you saw this kind of warning in a prayer book? Yet in most S’lihot prayer books, including the one that is most popular in the Israeli market, that is the message (OK, my translation is a bit of a dramatic paraphrase) that actually accompanies one of the hymns.
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