Rosh
Hashanah basics
"May it be your will": Blessings for special Rosh Hashanah
foods
Reasons for sounding the shofar: From a tenth-century philosopher
Saadiah Ga'on
Crime,
punishment, and fire alarms: Rosh Hashanah parables
Alexander Alan Steinbach
The
ram's horn, the horn and the unicorn: The shofar in Jewish
art
Ida Huberman
God the accused: Twentieth-century reflections on Rosh Hashanah
Elie Wiesel
"Cast
your sins into the depths of the sea": The symbolic ceremony
of Tashlikh
Julius Greenstone
Yom
Kippur basics
Community
confession: Renewing the national compact
Herman Wouk
Every
day is a Day of Atonement: from Reb Azrielke's discourse in The
Dybbuk
S. An-Ski
Let's
discuss that chicken
Yom Kippur atonement (kapparot) ceremony
Kol
Nidrei: Musical traditions from east to west: Historical background
and five musical examples
Kol
Nidrei ("All our Vows"): A modern poem based on
the ancient prayer
Zeev Falk
The
boy's song: A famous tale of the Ba'al Shem on Yom Kippur
Retold by Meyer Levin
Hasidic
tales and teachings concerning the Days of Awe
Philip Goodman
Sukkot
basics
Etrog:
Fruit of the goodly tree: Much ado about nothing or a powerful
symbol?
Erich and Rael Isaac
The
tzaddik's etrog
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Simhat
Torah basics
The
story of the melody
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
