Yom Kippur Neilah

Neilah is the closing service at the end of Yom Kippur. The service includes many of the same traditional liturgical prayers chanted throughout the High Holidays, including Ashrei, Selichot, and Avinu Malkeinu. Unique to Neilah is the chanting of the El Nora Alila, a Sephardic hymn attributed to Moses ibn Ezra. Within the Chabad Lubavitcher movement, there is a tradition wherein their congregations break into song at the end of Neilah with an unusual song choice. What song do they chant?

AWedding March in C major, by Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

BNapoleon’s March, which was played by Napoleon’s armies as they invaded Russia in 1812.

CHallelujah, by Leonard Cohen.

DLamentations of Jeremiah, by 16th century British composer Thomas Tallis.

EFeed Me from Little Shop of Horrors.

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