# vidui (וִדּוּי)

pronounced: vi-DUY


**Confession of sin — on Yom Kippur said aloud, in the plural, for the whole people**

## In Scripture

> Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
> — Leviticus 16:21 (The root of vidui on Yom Kippur itself: Aaron confesses all Israel's sins over the goat's head.)

> It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:
> — Leviticus 5:5 (Confession is required of the individual before the offering — naming the sin comes first.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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