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is taken, like the last hymn, from the closing service of the Day of Atonement, and it consists of the first stanza of a Selichah by and the first of a Selichah by. The date of the first poet is unknown, though he was probably one of those composers of Selichoth living between the tenth and the twelfth century. lived early in the thirteenth century. These two verses are sung to a beautiful old melody to which the Kol Nidrei poem,, is also set.