❧ Description
# SHEMA' ḲOLI ("Hear My Voice") Opening hymn of the evening offices of the Day of Atonement in the Sephardic ritual, preceding [Kol Nidré](/articles/9443-kol-nidre). It comprises twenty-nine couplets based on the penitential formula of the Mishnah (Ta'an. ii. 1), "That…