The Jewish High Holidays—the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled numbers. Yet much of what they find there can be unwelcoming in its patriarchal imagery, leaving many worshipers unsatisfied. For those seeking to connect more deeply with their Judaism, and for all readers in search of a contemplative approach to the themes of the fall season, poet and scholar Marcia Falk re-creates the holidays' key prayers and rituals from an inclusive perspective. Among the offerings in The Days Between are Hebrew and English blessings for festive meals, prayers for synagogue services, and poems and meditations for quiet reflection. Emphasizing introspection as well as relationship to others, Falk evokes her vision of the High Holidays as "ten days of striving to keep the heart open to change." Accessible and welcoming to modern readers, The Days Between is steeped in traditional sources and grounded in liturgical and biblical scholarship. It will serve as a meaningful alternative or supplement to the traditional liturgy for individuals, families, synagogues, and communities small and large—that is, for all who seek fresh meaning in the High Holidays.
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מתוך היום זה תמיד, מאת מלכּה חפֿץ טוזמאַן (שיר ידיש)
*חלק שני
חלון, ציפור, רקיע
שיר של יום וכוונת הלב לעשרת ימי תשובה
הקדמה*
הירהור: חלון, ציפור, רקיע
היום הראשון לראש השנה
מתנה,
ראיית הלב,
היום השני לראש השנה
יום הולדת העולם,
לידה,
היום השלישי לעשרת ימי תשובה
התעוררות,
נוכחות,
היום הרביעי לעשרת ימי תשובה
כמו ניצנים,
הכרת תודה,
היום החמישי לעשרת ימי תשובה
רוח,
עצב,
היום השישי לעשרת ימי תשובה
מנין שחרית,
הזמן,
היום השביעי לעשרת ימי תשובה
בהביטך במראה,
מוות,
היום השמיני לעשרת ימי תשובה
כנפים פרושות,
שאלות פתוחות,
היום התשיעי לעשרת ימי תשובה
מה אתה שומע?,
קול דממה דקה,
יום הכיפורים
מה יש לך?,
אַין,
חלק שלישי
יום הכיפורים
התכנסות: ליל הכיפורים
סעודה מפסקת
נטילת ידיים,
ברכת הלחם,
ברכת המזון,
הדלקת נרות ותחילת הצום
ברכת הזמן (שהחיינו)
ברכת הבת, ברכת הבן
תשובת הלב
התעטפות בטלית
הקדמה: כל נדרי*
כל נדרי
תשובת הלב
וידוי
ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום
הזכרת נשמות
הקדמה*
אזכור
שירי אבל ונחמה
כוונות לשעת אבל,
לפני ואחרי,
בית אבל,
צפורים על צפצפה גוססת,
לשאת,
מבט אחר,
אדמה,
אינך שייך לך,
תחת כנפי השכינה
קדיש: יפעת תבל
בעת נעילת שער
שעת נעילה
תקיעה גדולה
מאחרית לראשית
סיום הצום, ברכת הלחם
חתימה: שער פתוח
חלק רביעי
כניסה בשערים
תפילה לימים הנוראים
חלק חמישי
על ”ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום“*
מבנה, תוכן ותאולוגיה
המבט מבפנים
שלמי תודה*
*באנגלית
Introduction
The Days Between
BETWEEN BEGINNING AND BEGINNING
We measure time in lines—forward and back. We count the years of our lives from zero to the end. We count the days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur: ten.
But we also measure time in cycles—birthdays and memorial days, monthly and yearly holidays, the weekly return of the Sabbath. Spring and fall, and spring again. And we count cycles not from beginning to end but from beginning to beginning. Season begets season, month begets month, day begets day, without pause. No sooner has a year begun than we start counting the days until the next New Year.
The two kinds of time, linear and cyclical, are always with us, and never more so than during the High Holiday season, when darkness and light intermingle. A year has passed, and we are aware of being a year closer to our death. And yet, we are given a chance to start fresh.
The turning of the year—t’shuvat hashanah, as the New Year is sometimes referred to in the Bible*—reminds us that all ends are beginnings and all beginnings can be turnings. As the year turns and we become aware that the days are growing shorter—or, in the Southern Hemisphere, as we see them begin to lengthen—we turn, deliberately and with deliberation, to confront the great challenges of our lives. Who will live and who will die? asks Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom (We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day), a central liturgical passage of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. When and how will we come to our end? To these questions, we may add: What kind of life will we live in the time we have? Where in our life will we find purpose and meaning?
BETWEEN ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR
We often think of the High Holidays—in Hebrew, Hayamim Hanora’im, the Days of Awe—as referring to Rosh Hashanah (the New Year holiday) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). But it is more accurate, and truer to the spirit of the season, to view the High Holidays as a span of time, a continuous progression that begins at the onset of Rosh Hashanah and concludes at the close of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. Another name for this span is Asér...
