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Tikun of Sack and Ashes

Sources for the Tikkun of Sack and Ashes

Yackov Avinue
"Yackov ripped his garments and placed a sack on his waist." (Berashis 37)
Moshe Rabbanu
"Moshe wore a sack and wrapped himself in a sack.... until the heaven and earth shook." (Devarim Rabba 11 - 1)
Dovid Hamelech
"Dovid and the elders then fell on their faces covered in sacks." (Divray Hayamim 1 - 21)
"I will make my garments sack." (Tehilim 69)
Chizkiyah Hamelech
"When the King Chizkiyah heard this he tore his garments and clothed himself in sack cloth." (Yishayah 37)
Daniel
"I then placed my face towards Hashem the Elokim to ask in prayer and pleading while fasting with sack and ashes." (Daniel 9)
Nechmyah and Beni Yisroel
"The children of Yisroel gathered while fasting with sacks and and dirt upon them." (Necmyah 9)
King Achav
"He tore his clothes and placed sack cloth on his flesh and he then fasted and laid in sack." (Milachim 1 - 21)
King Yehoram
"The nation then saw and there was sack on his flesh from the inside." (Melachim 2 - 6 )
Mordichi
"Mordichi then ripped his garments and dressed in sack and ashes." (Ester 4)
Ester Hamalka
"She removed her royal garments and her glory and she dressed in sack." (Ester Rabba 8 - 7)
Nation of Yisroel
"Great sorrow for the Jews, fasting, crying, mourning, sack and ashes given out to the public." (Ester 4)
"What did Mordichi do, he gathered all young children and deprived them from bread and water and he dressed them in sack cloth." (Ester Rabba 8 - 7)
People of Ninveh
"They will cover themselves with sacks both the humans and the animals and they will cry out to Elokim with strength." (Yona 3)
The Bais Yosef
"To wear sack every Monday and Thursday." (Magid Masharim Parshas Mitzora)
Rebbe Chaim Vital
"That I will fast 40 consecutive days with sack, ashes and tears."
(Shar Hagilgulim Hakdama 38)
The Neveim
"Hashem Elokim Tzvakos called out on that day to weeping, mourning, moaning and garning of sack cloth." (Yishaya 22)
"For this put on sack cloth, mourn and cry out." (Yirmiyah 4)
"They put on sack cloth and were covered with confoundment" (Yichezkel 7)
Shulchan Aruch
"The entire nation gathers and dresses in sack cloth... until they subjugate their hearts and return in full repentance." (Arach Chaim 579)

"Whoever dresses in sack and fasts he is not passed away until his request is granted." (Medrash Rabba Ester 10)
"The students of the Arizal wrote that 'sack and ashes' (sak vafer) has the numerical equivalence of the names Havaya and Ekeh written out fully. It is also equivalent to 'heaven and earth' (shamayim varetz) since through this Zer Anpin and Nukva are united."
(Shla Hakadosh Yoma)
"For Teshuva one needs sack cloth and so said Dovid Hamelech may his memory be blessed, 'I will make my garments sack' and in Berashis Rabba the Sages wrote that Teshuva is trough fasting and sacks." (Reshis Chochma Gate of Repentance Chapter 3)

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