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- What is the heter to do teshuvah on Shabbos Shuvah, surely, when doing teshuvah one must be regretful and sorrowful, and it is forbidden to be like this on Shabbos?
- Why do we recite Viduy at Mincha on erev Yom Kippur when it is not yet Yom Kippur?
- Is there a mitzvah to drink on erev Yom Kippur, or is the mitzvah limited to eating? If there is a mitzvah to drink, is there a special mitzvah to drink wine?
- If one knows with certainty that he did not commit some of the sins listed in the Vidui – is he forbidden to recite them out of concern for speaking falsehood? Or is it perhaps permissible to recite Vidui even if one knows he did not sin in some of these matters?
- When reciting Vidui should one strike his heart or his chest, and why?
- Is it better to recite Kiddush Levanah before Yom Kippur or afterwards? And is it perhaps even permissible to recite Kiddush Levanah on Yom Kippur itself to add some more last-minute merits?
- Why do we spend so much time on Yom Kippur reciting piyutim related to the soʼir hapenimi (inner goat) which atones for the sin of tumas Mikdash veʼKodashav (defilement of the Mikdash and its sanctities) which we don't even have today?