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Why No Avinu Malkeinu on Shabbat?


By Baruch S. Davidson

Question:

Why do we omit Avinu Malkeinu from the Yom Kippur prayers when Yom Kippur is on a Saturday?

Response:

One of the highlights of the High Holiday service, the Avinu Malkeinu is a beautiful prayer in which we beseech G‑d for healing, sustenance and other things that we need. On Shabbat we do not say prayers that directly ask G‑d for our needs. This is because referring to the material things that we lack can cause us distress, something that is inconsistent with the Shabbat atmosphere of pleasure and bliss. For this reason we do not say Avinu Malkeinu on Yom Kippur if it is also Shabbat.

Please let me know if this helps.

Best regards,

Rabbi Baruch S. Davidson

Source:
Code of Jewish Law OC 584:5.
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Latest Comments:
Posted: Oct 12, 2011
2 reasons I can think of-speculation only
1)Neila is the holiest time of the year -the most concentrated time of Yom Kippur so therefore its appropriate to ask G-d for whatever you need being this is the time of absolute unity
2)by the time Avinu Malkeinu is recited it is generally nightfall at the time (the emergence of 3 stars)and therefore not being Shabbos anymore A"M can be recited.
Moshiach Now!
Posted By Moshiach, WestBank, BC/Canada

Posted: Sep 20, 2010
Don't we ask to be inscribed...
in the Book of Life and things of that sort, even when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat? Assuming I'm not misremembering, why the difference?
Posted By Aaron Levitt, Bronx, NY

Posted: Sep 19, 2010
Neilah?
So then why do we say Avinu Malkeinu during the Neilah prayer?
Posted By Erica, PA



 


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