Yom Kippur Readings

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This comprehensive anthology connects your heart and soul to the ancient and medieval prayers of Yom Kippur through contemporary and ancient commentaries on the day's central themes: Kol Nidre, Sin, Forgiveness, Good, Love and Learning, Roots and Themes from the Torah, Repentance, Prayer and Acts of Righteousness, Faith and Beliefs, Rizkor, Yom Kippur Customs, Jonah and Human Responsibility, And much more.

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

xix

First Reflections

(14)

And You Shall Afflict Your Souls....

(1)

A Techine for Yom Kippur

(1)

Is This the Fast I Have Chosen?---It Wasn't My Turn

(1)

What Is Life Without Teshuvah?

(1)

Returning to Ourselves

(2)

God's Book of Life

(1)

The Cab Ride

(2)

Preface to the Amidah

(1)

Introduction to the Amidah---God's Presence Vibrates on Our Lips

(1)

Moving toward the Light of God

(1)

Spiritual Flutterings

(3)

Kol Nidre---Our Vows and Promises

(12)

Kol Nidre: Nothing Affects the Human Being More Than Music

(1)

Kavanah for Kol Nidre

(1)

Can a Sinner Dare to Pray?

(1)

Quoting God

(1)

The Jew Must Stand for Something

(1)

Our Vows Are Not Vows

(1)

Blessing the Children Yom Kippur Eve

(1)

Prayer of the Hidden Jews

(1)

Kol Nidre: Drawn into Heaven's Womb

(1)

Kol Nidrei: Why Three Times?

(1)

Whose Vows---Ours or God's?

(1)

Who Are the Avaryanim? Permission to Pray with the Iberians (?)

(1)

Forgiveness on Kol Nidrei

(3)

Sin

(36)

The Capture and Release of the Yetzer Ha-Ra

(2)

Is Reciting Al Het Reason to Rejoice?

(1)

Don't Be Judgmental

(1)

Bold, Humble, Daring

(1)

Dibbur Peh ... Leshon Ha-ra---Even If True, Gossip Is Still a Sin

(3)

Gossip: A Chronic Infectious Disease

(1)

Al Het: The Need for Community

(1)

Ashamnu ... Bagadnu ...---Neither Repentance Nor Confession

(1)

The Power of Words

(1)

Can You Cross the River?

(1)

Recognize Our Own Flaws

(1)

Yetzer Ha-Ra---For the Sin of the Evil Impulse

(1)

Lashon Ha-Ra---Traditional Sources

(1)

Lashon Ha-Ra---Be Careful of Unnecessary Words!

(1)

On Justice, for All Children

(1)

Lashon Ha-Ra: Judaism Is, Above All, a Love of Language

(1)

Ve-Khof Et Yitzrenu Le-Hishtabed Lakh---Direct Our Impulses [Yetzer]...

(1)

We Humans Are Cracked Vessels: Ashamnu, Bagadnu, Gazalnu---We Have Sinned, We Have Dealt Treacherously

(1)

Sweetening the Evil

(1)

Ashamnu---A to Z

(1)

The Consequences of Sin and the Meaning of Evil

(1)

Let Them Fix Their Errors

(1)

Al Chet

(1)

The Body/Mind Connection

(1)

What We Have Lost

(1)

Sins of the Tongue--- ... B'Dibbur Peh, ...B'Siah Siftotenu, ... B'Leshon Ha-Ra

(1)

Gossip

(1)

No Time for Sin

(1)

Ve-al Dibbur Peh ... Sins of the Tongue

(1)

An Interview with God

(1)

Watch Out for the ``Little'' Sins

(1)

Al Het for Our Age of Violence

(1)

God's Questions

(1)

Al Het---Is It Possible to Change?

(1)

Ashamnu---We Have Sinned

(1)

Al Het ... B'timhon Levav---For the Sin ... of Confusion of Values

(1)

Sins Are Parts of Us Yet to Complete

(1)

How Do We Abolish Sin?

(1)

... B'Dibbur Peh---Leprosy of Irresponsible Speech

(1)

Al Het ... B'timhon Levav---By Confusion of Values, by Spoiling Our Planet

(1)

... B'timhon Levav---By Confusion of Values

(1)

Alternative Al Het

(1)

Al Het---Yom Kippur, a Loving Laundromat

(2)

Forgiveness

(22)

What Forgiveness Is

(1)

Forgiving as an Essential Human Attribute---To Make Peace with Ourselves, and with Others, to Move Forward with Hope

(1)

Sweetening the Evil in Yourself

(2)

Forgive Yourself

(1)

Let's Forgive Each Other---Unlocking the Gates of Forgiveness: A Personal Prayer

(1)

Vidui---An Annotated Report

(1)

Pardon Our Iniquity and Our Sin (Exodus 34:9)---Can We Pardon Without Apology?

(1)

Forgiveness in Hebrew Scriptures

(2)

Forgiving Debts

(1)

Sources on Forgiveness

(3)

Adonai, Adonai---The Thirteen Attributes of God's Mercy: Why Is the Ineffable Name Repeated?

(1)

All in the Family

(1)

Forgive and Forget!

(1)

Getting Rid of the Mud

(1)

Day of Reconciliations

(4)

Hear, O Israel: God, Love and Learning

(20)

Can Love Be Commanded?

(1)

When Words Enter the Heart

(1)

Who Will Recite the Shema with Our Grandchildren?

(2)

Shema Yisrael

(2)

Radiance and Light---Pirkei Avot 2:13

(1)

Shema: God's Oneness

(1)

Sh'ma

(1)

Shema: One Universe

(1)

Shema---The Lord Is One: Hear, O Israel, Adonai Is Our God, Adonai Alone

(1)

Shema---And You Shall Love Adonai Your God. . . .

(1)

Ve-Shenantam Le-Venekha---The Tradition of Study

(1)

Teach Them Diligently to Your Children---Jacob and Esau

(1)

Ve-sheenantam Le-vanekha---Educate, Educate, Educate

(1)

Shema---Teach Them Well to Your Children

(1)

On the Doorposts of Your House---Two Approaches to Life

(1)

The Quality of Our Love

(1)

You Shall Teach Them Diligently to Your Children---Weaving the Loom of Future Years

(1)

Shema

(1)

How Fortunate Are You, Rabbi Akiva

100

(1)

Bless God Even for Evil

100

(1)

Widening Our Circle of Compassion

101

(1)

The Calming, Nourishing Effect of Shema Yisrael

101

(1)

Shema: God and God's World

102

(1)

I Will Love the Lord My God

103

(1)

Sh'ma: ... Ve-shenantam le-vanekha---A Jew Must Learn!

103

(1)

Sh'ma---Teach Them Diligently to Your Children

104

(1)

Avinu Malkenu

105

(6)

Live, Read, Grow, and Be a Mensch!

107

(1)

Avinu Malkenu, Kotvaynu Be-Sefer Z'khuyot---Don't Just Ask---Tell God: Send Me!

107

(1)

Avinu Malkenu---A Tenacious Link

107

(1)

Avinu Malkenu

108

(3)

Roots and Themes from the Torah

111

(34)

Repentance as Halakhah

113

(1)

Teshuvah and the Sacred Year

114

(1)

Inclusion in the Covenant

115

(1)

Fasting: Who Can and Who Has To?

116

(1)

Yom Kippur and the ``Scapegoat''---Seeking Meaning for the Strange Ritual of the Scapegoat

116

(4)

Azazel and Magic

120

(2)

The Goat's Journey to the Desert

122

(1)

Why Do We Fast?

122

(1)

Judaism and Atonement

123

(1)

Atonement in the Desert

124

(1)

Celebrating Yom Kippur in the Past

124

(1)

Kohen Gadol Could Not Enter Holy of Holies Wearing Gold

125

(1)

Where God Can't Enter

126

(1)

A Sabbath of Sabbaths

126

(1)

Parshat Nitzavim: Choose Life

127

(1)

Deciding for God or for Azazel

128

(1)

The Basis of Sin: Self-Deception

129

(1)

Celebrating and Revealing the Invisible---Yom Kippur Torah Reading

129

(3)

Torah Reading---Yom Kippur

132

(1)

Aaron's God---and Ours

133

(2)

Peace between People

135

(1)

When God Is High Above, Awe Comes; When God Is Close, Love Comes---Peace to the Far, Peace to the Close (Isaiah 57:19)

135

(1)

Is Not This the Fast I Have Chosen ... to Feed the Hungry, Clothe the Naked....

136

(1)

What Does God Ask of Women?

137

(1)

The High Priest: An Eager Servant Awaiting Rebirth

138

(1)

Just When.... An Introduction in Poetry, to the Haftarah of Yom Kippur Morning

139

(2)

Shalom Shalom La-rahok Ve-la-karov

141

(2)

The Ritual of the Goats

143

(2)

T'shuvah, T'fillah, T'zedakkah (Repentance, Prayer and Acts of Righteousness)

145

(26)

Maimonides' Eight Degrees of Charity

147

(1)

I Am Canceling My Word and Fulfilling Yours---The Thirteen Divine Attributes

147

(1)

U-Teshuvah . . .

148

(1)

Fund-Raising Story

148

(1)

Kedoshim Tih'yu---Be Holy!

149

(1)

Atonement and Repentance

149

(1)

Like a Fading Flower, a Passing Shadow, a Fugitive Cloud and a Vanishing Dream

150

(1)

U-teshuvah---How to Cleanse Ourselves

151

(1)

U-Tefilah ... Can Prayer Heal?

152

(1)

How Prayer Leads to Morality

152

(1)

Teshuvah: A New Factor in the Divine Relationship

153

(1)

Homecoming and Teshuvah

154

(1)

U'netaneh Tokef

155

(1)

Teshuvah Is Not Repentance, Tefillah Is Not Prayer, and Tzedakah Is Not Charity

156

(2)

Teshuvah, Tefilah and Zedakah---Judaism Is a Religion of Action More Than Thought

158

(1)

... U-tzedakah---Make Your Home a Wellspring of Charity

158

(1)

Tzedakah: How Important a Value for Us?

159

(1)

Tzedakah Lines in Our Personal Budgets

159

(1)

Zedakah: Money, Money, Money

160

(1)

Penitence

160

(1)

The Chance to Repent

161

(1)

Remaking Yourself

162

(1)

... U-tzedakah---There Is a Healing Power in Doing Good

162

(1)

U'Tzedakah---God Makes Opportunities for Redemption

162

(1)

Acts of Lovingkindness

163

(1)

U'Tzedakah

163

(1)

Ve-tiftah et Sefer Ha-Zikhronot---You Record and Seal, Count and Measure....

164

(1)

Repentance, Prayer and Tzedakah

165

(3)

Memory and Teshuvah

168

(1)

Man and Beast Will Be Saved by God

169

(1)

Repenting for Those Who Cannot

169

(2)

Faith and Beliefs

171

(12)

Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Emulating God's Attributes

173

(1)

Where Is God?

173

(2)

The Glory of Life

175

(1)

Ve-khol Ma-aminim---We All Hope ... We Trust

175

(1)

Saving God's Life

176

(1)

Ve-khol Ma-aminim---All Believe

177

(1)

Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Defining Faith, the Jewish Way

177

(1)

Ve-khol Ma-aminim---Trying to Believe

178

(1)

On Eagles' Wings

179

(4)

Yizkor---In Memoriam

183

(20)

Yom Kippur and Memory

185

(1)

Time Out---Life Is Temporary

186

(2)

Death Does Not Exist

188

(1)

Together We Can Stand Anything

188

(1)

Driving Sorrow Out of Your Life

189

(1)

A Special Prayer for Those Not Saying Yizkor for Parents

189

(1)

The Plan of the Master Weaver

190

(1)

Still Warm from an Old Jacket

191

(1)

So Too Does the Soul Evolve....

192

(1)

Yizkor

192

(1)

From Beyond the Grave Our Loved Ones Reach Out and Touch Us

193

(1)

A Yizkor Guided Imagery Exercise

194

(1)

Good Grief

195

(2)

Lesson from the Titanic---Love Flows Continuously

197

(1)

Judaism's Advice for a Meaningful Life

198

(2)

The Rest Is Up to Me....

200

(1)

A Short Visit---For a Divine Purpose

200

(1)

The Common Lot of All of Us

200

(1)

Yizkor

201

(2)

Martyrology

203

(24)

Punished for Being Jewish

205

(1)

A Martyr's Prayer for the New Year

205

(1)

A Kaddish for the Children

206

(3)

There Is One Synagogue Left in Kiev

209

(1)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Opening Ceremonies

210

(1)

Remembering, Not Forgetting

210

(1)

We Will Outlive You, Globochnik!

211

(1)

Martyrology---The 614th Commandment

211

(1)

A Jew Cannot Be Without God

212

(1)

An Elegy for the Six Million

212

(2)

Remember Us unto Life

214

(1)

A Memoir of the Yom Kippur War

214

(3)

My People Are Being Consumed

217

(1)

Golden Silence

218

(1)

What Did We Lose?

218

(2)

Looking into Our Own Hearts

220

(1)

Zakhor---Never Forget

220

(1)

Why We Stay in Israel

221

(1)

Martyrology---9/11 and Lamentations

222

(2)

Before the Kaddish: At the Funeral of Those Who Were Killed in the Land of Israel

224

(1)

Musaf---V'ye-e-tayhu

225

(2)

The Service of the High Priest: In the Temple Times and Today

227

(14)

Avodah: Service

229

(1)

Avodah: The Story of the High Priest

229

(1)

The Root of All Holiness

230

(1)

Being Better---Serving Better

230

(1)

The Meaning of Avodah

231

(1)

Avodah---For Whom Do the Priests Pray?

232

(1)

Avodah---Community Service

233

(1)

Avodah: Community Service---Serving Others, We Serve Ourselves

233

(1)

The Ritual of the Goats---We Are Left with Words....

233

(1)

Through Service to God [Avodah] I Add to the Good of the World

234

(1)

Reciting the Avodah in the Diaspora

235

(1)

Avodah: We Are Defined by Our Connections

236

(1)

Service

236

(1)

Belonging

237

(1)

Giving Generously of Ourselves

237

(1)

Rise with Strength Renewed

238

(1)

God and the Kohen Gadol

238

(1)

Avodah Service

239

(2)

Yom Kippur Customs

241

(26)

The Kittle

243

(1)

A Meditation on Fasting

244

(2)

Dress

246

(1)

(Alternative) Yom Kippur Chant

247

(1)

Why Fast?

247

(2)

We Are Clay in the Potter's Hands

249

(1)

Teshuvah: Forgiveness Walks

250

(1)

La-Brit Habet---Recall Your Covenant

251

(1)

Never Lose Hope: Uve-khen ... tikvah le-dor-shekha

251

(1)

Ve-Yaya-su Kulam Agudah Ehat---The Importance of Community

252

(1)

Get a Life

253

(1)

The Origins of Yom Kippur

253

(1)

Who Fasts?

254

(1)

May We Rise Along with Our Prayers

254

(1)

A New Ya-aleh

255

(1)

U'v'khen Ten Kavod Le-amekha---Give Dignity to Your People---Kavod: Honor Connected to Our Deepest Selves

256

(1)

Kavanah for the Amidah---Devekut: Clinging to God

257

(1)

Introduction to the Amidah

257

(1)

Ki Hineh KaHomer

258

(1)

Hayom---The Opportunity of the Present Moment

259

(2)

Hayom---Today

261

(1)

Aleinu---The Kabbalistic Origins of Tikkun Olam

261

(1)

Sim Shalom---A Prayer for Peace

262

(1)

Yaaleh---Let Us Rise in Torah Knowledge: Flying Words

262

(2)

Ve-yaa-su Khulam Agudah Ehat---Gathered Embers Generate Heat

264

(1)

V'tivneha M'herah Ut'gadel K'vodah---Rebuild and Glorify Your Land

264

(1)

Piyyutim: Liturgical Poetry

265

(2)

Jonah and Human Responsibility

267

(20)

Jonah: Running Away from Ourselves

269

(1)

The Book of Jonah: A Lesson on Happiness

269

(1)

Jonah and Self-Change

270

(1)

Jonah: A D'var Torah

271

(3)

Jonah Learns about Love

274

(1)

The Book of Jonah: A Summary

275

(3)

Why Are You Sleeping? Mah Lekha, Nirdam?---Jonah 1:6

278

(4)

Of What People Are You?---I Am a Hebrew (Jonah 1:8-9)

282

(1)

Choosing to Change

283

(1)

The Book of Jonah---Whose Story Are We Telling?

284

(3)

Closing the Gates

287

(16)

The Gates Are Open---God Accepts All

289

(1)

Pidyonenu Ad Arev---May Redemption Come to Us at Dusk

289

(1)

Walking through Different Kinds of Doors---Judge Us Not for What We Were, but for What We Can Be

290

(1)

Is It Too Late?

290

(1)

N'eilah---The Closing of the Gates

291

(1)

The Final Shofar Blast

292

(1)

Closing Gates, New Beginning

292

(2)

Shofar

294

(1)

The Gates Clang Shut---Neilah

295

(1)

N'eilah

296

(2)

A Meditation before Neilah

298

(3)

Displaced Persons

301

(2)

Next Year in Jerusalem

303

(10)

Jerusalem Rebuilt---This Year in Jerusalem!

305

(1)

Next Year in Jerusalem---Guide Our Steps

306

(1)

From the Shofar

306

(1)

Suspended between Heaven and Earth

307

(1)

La-shanah Ha-ba-ah (Ha-zot!) B'yerushalayim---Whatever We Have Lost, We Can Find in Jerusalem

307

(1)

La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'Yerushalayim---How Seriously Do We Mean It?

308

(1)

Moshe Dayan at the Kotel---This Year in Yerushalayim!

309

(1)

Next Year in Yerushalayim!---Finding a Way to Return

310

(1)

Next Year in Yerushalayim

310

(1)

La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'yerushalayim!---To Jerusalem

311

(1)

La-shanah Ha-ba-ah B'Yerushalayim

311

(2)

Sources

313

(12)

About the Contributors

325

(7)

Credits

332

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Yom Kippur Readings

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