Sleepless Sermon: Yom Kippur 5768 - Or Zarua LaTzadik - Jewish Holidays

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Why do we begin Kol Nidrei and Yom Kippur, the holiest day of year, with the verse of “or zarua latzadik ul’yishrei lev simcha”?

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