Thirteen Attributes of Mercy

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The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy are a central Jewish liturgical formula enumerating God’s compassionate and forgiving qualities, frequently recited in prayers for divine mercy and repentance.

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Thirteen Attributes of Mercy canonical 3
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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish liturgical formula
Jewish theological concept
alsoKnownAs Shelosh Esreh Middot
Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
surface form: Thirteen Attributes

Thirteen Divine Attributes
associatedWith covenant renewal
divine forgiveness
teshuvah
category Biblical exegesis topic
Jewish prayer
Jewish theology
commentedOnBy Kabbalistic literature
Maimonides
Nachmanides (Ramban)
surface form: Nachmanides

Rashi
conceptualizedAs means of invoking divine compassion
coreVerseOpening Adonai Adonai El rachum ve-chanun
describes God’s compassion
God’s covenantal faithfulness
God’s forgiveness
God’s mercy
God’s patience
firstRevealedInContextOf sin of the Golden Calf
influenced Jewish concepts of divine attributes
Jewish penitential practice
languageOfOrigin Hebrew
liturgicalFunction prayer for repentance
supplication for divine mercy
liturgicalGenre penitential prayer
liturgicalPlacement inserted into Selichot piyyutim
repeated multiple times in Yom Kippur services
numberOfAttributes 13
primarySourceText Exodus 34:6–7
recitationStyle often chanted responsively
recitedDuring Selichot
Ten Days of Repentance
Torah reading rituals in some communities
Yom Kippur prayers
surface form: Yom Kippur services

fast days
religiousTradition Judaism
statusInHalakha requires minyan for full liturgical recitation in many customs
theologicalBasis God’s self-revelation to Moses
traditionallyInterpretedBy Rabbinic Judaism
usedIn Nusach Ashkenaz
surface form: Ashkenazi liturgy

Mizrahi liturgy
Sephardi liturgy
Yemenite liturgy
viewedAs covenantal formula between God and Israel

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Selichot contains Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
Tomer Devorah basedOn Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
Exodus 34 contains Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
Thirteen Attributes of Mercy alsoKnownAs Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
this entity surface form: Thirteen Attributes