Prayer and Blessings
Private Prayer on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Are there any special prayers one may not recite on the Days of Awe?
Question
First of all, thank you to Rabbi Menashe Yisrael for the quick, full, and precise answers.
1. What about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? As is known, I am unable to pray in synagogue, for the reasons I described earlier. I customarily pray all the prayers on these days, a full prayer service like in synagogue. Are there any special prayers that I am forbidden to recite on the Days of Awe and on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
Thank you and with blessings, Chovav Gavriel
Answer
Hello and blessings,
Also on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur the law is as I wrote to you: one may pray everything that appears in the special machzor for these days, except for the prayers of kaddish, Barchu, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, as well as the blessings of the repetition of the prayer that are specifically for the prayer leader in synagogue.
However, on these days, and especially on Yom Kippur, it is very worthwhile to pray with a minyan, and many made a tremendous effort to pray in public on Yom Kippur, and even moved out of their residence, which was in a village without a minyan, in order to pray in a place where there is a minyan. And halacha explains that it is possible to compel, from a community of nine men, the hiring of a man to come to their community to complete a minyan on these days.
Good luck - Menashe Yisrael
