If one already confessed a particular sin on a prior Yom Kippur but did not repeat that sin, must one confess it again?
Synopsis
The Mechaber rules one need not repeat confession of a sin already confessed; the Rema (citing the Ran) rules it is praiseworthy to repeat it, and this is the accepted Ashkenazi custom.
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