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  • The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
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  • Marcia Falk
  • 2014
  • Published by: Brandeis University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Other Works by the Author, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Opening the Heart
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction: The Days Between
  2. pp. xix-xxvi
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  1. Part One. Rosh Hashanah
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. Approaching the Gates: Festive Meal for Rosh Hashanah Eve
  1. Lighting the Candles for Rosh Hashanah
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  1. Blessing of Renewal
  2. pp. 6-7
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  1. Blessing the Children
  2. pp. 8-9
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  1. Fruit of the Vine
  2. pp. 10-11
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  1. Fruit of the Tree: Apples and Honey
  2. pp. 12-13
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  1. Fruits of the Earth
  2. pp. 14-15
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  1. Washing the Hands
  2. pp. 16-17
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  1. Blessing before the Meal
  2. pp. 18-19
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  1. Blessing after the Meal
  2. pp. 20-22
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  1. Opening the Heart
  1. Opening the Heart
  2. pp. 24-25
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  1. Introduction to Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day
  2. pp. 26-27
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  1. Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day
  2. pp. 28-35
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  1. Introduction to Shofarot, Zikhronot, Malkhuyot: Calls, Recalling, Callings
  2. pp. 36-37
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  1. Shofarot: Calls
  2. pp. 38-39
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  1. Zikhronot: Recalling
  2. pp. 40-41
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  1. Malkhuyot: Callings
  2. pp. 42-45
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  1. May It Be So
  2. pp. 46-50
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  1. We Cast into the Depths of the Sea (Tashlikh Ritual)
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 52-53
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  1. Casting Away
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  1. Facing the Sea
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  1. The Blade of Grass Sings to the River
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  1. The Tree Sings to the River
  2. pp. 60-61
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  1. From Today Is Forever
  2. pp. 62-64
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  1. Two | Window, Bird, Sky: Daily Psalms and Directions of the Heart
  1. Introduction
  2. p. 66
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  1. Meditation: Window, Bird, Sky
  2. p. 67
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  1. The Gift
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  1. Seeing with the Heart
  2. p. 69
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  1. Birthday of the World
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  1. Giving Birth
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  1. Awakening
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  1. Presence
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  1. Like Buds
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  1. Gratitude
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  1. Wind
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  1. Sadness
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  1. Morning Minyan
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  1. Time
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  1. When You Look in the Mirror
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  1. Death
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  1. Open Wings
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  1. Open Questions
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  1. What Do You Hear?
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  1. Silence
  2. p. 85
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  1. What Do You Have?
  2. p. 86
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  1. Nothing
  2. pp. 87-88
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  1. Part Three. Yom Kippur
  2. pp. 89-90
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  1. Gathering In: Yom Kippur Eve
  1. Washing the Hands
  2. pp. 92-93
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  1. Blessing before the Meal
  2. pp. 94-95
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  1. Blessing after the Meal
  2. pp. 96-97
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  1. Lighting the Candles, Beginning the Fast
  2. pp. 98-99
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  1. Blessing of Renewal
  2. pp. 100-101
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  1. Blessing the Children
  2. pp. 102-104
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  1. Turning the Heart
  1. Tallit: Prayer Shawl
  2. pp. 106-107
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  1. Introduction to Kol Nidrey: All Vows
  2. pp. 108-109
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  1. Kol Nidrey: All Vows
  2. pp. 110-111
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  1. Turning the Heart
  2. pp. 112-113
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  1. Confession
  2. pp. 114-115
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  1. Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day
  2. pp. 116-118
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  1. Remembering the Lives (Yizkor Service)
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 120-121
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  1. I Recall
  2. pp. 122-123
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  1. Passageways of Grieving
  2. pp. 124-127
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  1. Before and After
  2. pp. 128-129
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  1. Grief’s House
  2. pp. 130-131
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  1. Birds in a Dying Birch
  2. pp. 132-133
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  1. Enduring
  2. pp. 134-135
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  1. Another View
  2. pp. 136-137
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  1. Earth
  2. pp. 138-139
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  1. You Do Not Belong to You
  2. pp. 140-141
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  1. Beneath Shekhinah’s Wings
  2. pp. 142-143
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  1. Kaddish: Beauty of the World
  2. pp. 144-146
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  1. N’ilah: Closing of the Gates
  1. Closing Hour
  2. pp. 148-149
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  1. The Great Call
  2. pp. 150-152
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  1. From End to Beginning
  1. Breaking the Fast
  2. pp. 154-155
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  1. Coda: Open Gate
  2. pp. 156-158
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  1. Four | Entering the Gates
  1. Service for the High Holidays
  2. pp. 160-161
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  1. Tallit: Prayer Shawl
  2. pp. 162-163
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  1. Birthday of the World
  2. p. 164
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  1. Giving Birth
  2. p. 165
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  1. Opening the Heart
  2. pp. 166-167
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  1. Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom:We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day
  2. pp. 168-175
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  1. Shofarot: Calls
  2. pp. 176-177
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  1. Zikhronot: Recalling
  2. pp. 178-179
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  1. Malkhuyot: Callings
  2. pp. 180-183
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  1. What Do You Have?
  2. p. 184
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  1. Nothing
  2. p. 185
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  1. Turning the Heart
  2. pp. 186-187
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  1. Confession
  2. pp. 188-189
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  1. I Recall
  2. pp. 190-191
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  1. Passageways of Grieving
  2. pp. 192-195
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  1. Beneath Shekhinah’s Wings
  2. pp. 196-197
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  1. May It Be So
  2. pp. 198-201
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  1. Kaddish: Beauty of the World
  2. pp. 202-204
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  1. Five | Re-visioning Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom
  1. Structure, Content, and Theology: An Overview
  2. pp. 207-209
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  1. The View from Within
  2. pp. 210-220
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 221-222
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  1. About the Series
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