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Moses prays. Never had there been a prayer as long, protracted, passionate, as this. \u201cI fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord\u2019s sight and so arousing His anger\u201d (Deut. 9:18). In the end God relented. He agreed to forgive the people, and promised Moses a new set of tablets to replace those he had broken in his anger and now lay in fragments beyond repair. The new tablets symbolized a new beginning. For another forty days Moses was with God. He then descended the mountain, holding the tablets. The people saw him and what he was carrying and knew that they had been forgiven. <\/span><\/p>\n

That day, when Moses came down the mountain with the second tablets, became the enduring image of forgiveness. Moses descended on the tenth of Tishrei, and thereafter, the anniversary of that day would become established as a time of forgiveness for all generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a daring midrash on this, taking as its point of departure the line from Psalm , \u201cHear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.\u201d The psalm, like many others, begins with the word Lamenatze\u2019a\u0125<\/em>, literally, \u201cFor the conductor, the director of music.\u201d The word could be read, however, as \u201cFor the victor,\u201d and with a truly remarkable inversion, the midrash interprets this as: \u201cFor the victor who sought to be defeated\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the victor who sought to be defeated, as it is said [Is. 57:16], <\/span>I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of Me \u2013 the very people I have created.<\/em> <\/span>Do not read it thus, but, <\/span>I will accuse in order to be defeated<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>How so? Thus said the Holy One, blessed be He, \u201cWhen I win, I lose; and when I lose, I win. I defeated the generation of the Flood, but I lost thereby, for I destroyed My own creation, as it says [Gen. 7:23], <\/span>Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. <\/span><\/em>The same happened with the generation of the Tower of Babel and the people of Sodom. But in the days of Moses who defeated Me [by persuading Me to forgive the Israelites whom I had sworn to destroy], I gained, for I did not destroy Israel. (<\/span>Pesikta Rabbati<\/span><\/i>, 9)<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses is the hero who defeated God \u2013 which turned out to be God\u2019s own deepest victory. That day, when Moses came down with the symbol of the power of penitential prayer, became the first Yom Kippur. <\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpted from the <\/span>Koren Yom Kippur Machzor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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