One of the beautiful paradoxes of Yom Kippur is that introspection is, by definition, individual, yet Jews recite the confessional in the plural. None of us has committed all the transgressions in the standard liturgy, yet we are each invited to find our shortcomings in the text’s long, alphabetical list. And to remember that, whether we like it or not, we are bound to one another. It is in that spirit that I offer the following Al-Chet prayer after a year marked by pain, division and rancor.