When To Hit Your Chest during Prayers
Hit your chest near your heart with your fist at:
- Chatanu... and ... fashanu... in slach lanu,
- First line of Avinu malkeinu (except on Rosh Hashana),
- Ve'al cheit and ve'al chataim in the al cheit for Yom Kippur, and
-
Ashamnu on
- Rosh Hashana,
- 10 Days of Repentance,
- Fast days, and
- Selichot.
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