- During these judgment days, one should take care to recite every word of prayer clearly and not garble them.
- According to the Arizal, when one is moved to tears during the prayers on the High Holidays and the Ten Days of Repentance, it is a sign that he is being judged at that time. Therefore, one should pray with great kavana (concentration) at that time. If one doesn't cry at all during these days, it is a sign that one's neshama (soul) is blemished.
- Even if one was, G-d forbid, sealed for death in the book of the wicked, he can fix this and be written in the Book of Life for the tzadikim by doing teshuvah and praying with tears.
- See below regarding the laws of the special insertions in the prayers during the Ten Days of Repentance.
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