Celebrate

These special prayers are recited during the month preceding Rosh Hashanah.

This Jewish month marks the period of soul-searching leading up to the High Holidays.

The life and death imagery of Rosh Hashanah is meant to spur people to improve their behavior.

The Jewish New Year is simultaneously a time of great celebration and subtle trepidation.

Were Mordecai and Esther assimilated Jews?

The High Holiday prayer book emphasize the themes of the Days of Awe — introspection and repentance

A prayer book for the High Holidays.

The Torah is taken out during prayer services on Shabbat, Mondays and Thursdays.

The proper observance of Yom Kippur, including repentance and introspection, should bring us nearer to God all year long.

The rabbis of antiquity deduced that all labors necessary for constructing a sanctuary and its appurtenances should serve as the blueprint for Shabbat prohibitions.

Heschel draws out the implications of the idea that we rest in memory/imitation of God's primeval rest at the end of Creation.

The three categories of Jewish holidays, celebrations and commemorations.