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The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season, published in 2014, takes a similar approach to the High Holy Day season, recreating the holidays’ key prayers and rituals from an inclusive perspective.
However, the High Holy Days are usually peak attendance days for synagogues and temples, often filling or over-filling synagogues. [6] For this reason many synagogues issue tickets for attendance and may charge for them: practice varies on whether paid-up synagogue members must also buy these or whether it is included in the subscription.
It introduces the Kedusha of Musaf for these days. In many communities, it is chanted while the Torah ark is open and the congregants are standing. [2] It is the "central poem of the High Holy Day [of the Day of Atonement]." [3] The ArtScroll machzor calls it "one of the most stirring compositions in the entire liturgy of the Days of Awe." [4]
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Rosh Hashanah occurs 163 days after the first day of Passover, and thus is usually (but not always) determined by the new moon closest to the autumnal equinox. In terms of the Gregorian calendar, the earliest date on which Rosh Hashanah can fall is 5 September, as happened in 1842, 1861, 1899, and 2013. The latest Gregorian date that Rosh ...
Selichot prayer leaf (c. 8th–9th century) discovered in the famous Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China in 1908 by Paul Pelliot.. Selichot (Hebrew: סְלִיחוֹת, romanized: səliḥoṯ, singular: סליחה, səliḥā) are Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days.
Sep. 16—Catastrophic storms. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Wars. Famine. Illness. Political upheaval and strife. The calamities of this world seem unending. Headlines within the last few weeks reflect ...
The machzor (Hebrew: מחזור, plural machzorim, pronounced and [maχzoˈʁim], respectively) is the prayer book which is used by Jews on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many Jews also make use of specialized machzorim on the three pilgrimage festivals of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot.