📄 High Holiday Reader 5785: Not A Mahzor • No season gathers the Jewish people together like the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, the High Holiday season. Jews of all stripes find themselves sitting in congregations, at meals, and spending time together during this particular time of the year. 

This year (2024/5785), is unique and challenging in its own ways. We are honored to publish a High Holiday Reader to help you prepare, reflect, and make this season meaningful.

❱❱ Click here to download the file.

🌐 From Exploring Judaism

📄 High Holidays Prayer Supplement 5785 • Our friends at the Shechter Institutes, Masorti Movement in Israel, Rabbinical Assembly in Israel, and Schechter Rabbinical Seminary prepared a special supplement with prayers and thoughts for the High Holidays, Sukkot and Simchat Torah 5785 in the shadow of the October War.

❱❱ Click here to download the file.

🌐 From Shechter Institutes

📄 High Holiday Liturgy: Making Meaning from the Metaphors for God • "The traditional liturgy of the High Holidays does not always feel easy to connect to or relevant. The language may not resonate with our understanding of how the world works, and approaching the God-heavy text can be daunting if we’re not even sure we believe in God.  

Even for those who do consider themselves to be believers, the idea of a male deity who sits on a throne determining our fate for the next year may not accord with our views of The Divine".

❱❱ Keep reading

🌐 From Exploring Judaism

📄 Netzach and Hod (Rosh Hashanah) • "(Adapted from Rabbi Friedson’s 5784 Rosh Hashanah sermon.) In 1989, an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened Armenia, killing over thirty thousand people in less than four minutes.

Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to the local elementary school to find his son. When he arrived, he saw that the building had been leveled. Looking at the mass of stones and rubble, he remembered a promise he had made to his child: 'No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you.' Tears filled his eyes. Looking at the pile of debris that had once been a school, it seemed hopeless".

❱❱ Keep reading

🌐 From Exploring Judaism

GERMAN

📄 Die vier Daten und drei Namen von Rosch Haschana • "Rosch Haschana, der Anfang des jüdischen Jahres, ist einerseits ein Jahresanfang, so wie es viele gibt, und andererseits etwas ganz besonderes. Jede Kultur hat einen Kalender – man könnte fast sagen, ohne Kalender, ohne eine Zeitorientierung kann es keine Kultur geben."

Klicken Sie hier, um den Artikel von Rabbinerin Gesa Ederberg von der Synagoge Oranienburger Straße in Berlin zu lesen.

🌐 From Synagoge Oranienburger Straße (Berlin, Germany)

SWEDISH

📄 Besök Judiska Församlingen i Stockholms specialsidor om Rosh Hashanah och Yom Kippur för att hitta information om chagim och en kort Rosh Hashanah-guide på svenska för familjer.

🌐 From Judiska församlingen i Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)