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Pour Out Your Hearts

Oct 3, 2024 By Joel Seltzer | Commentary | Rosh Hashanah

Hannah provides a powerful paradigm of prayer for us on these Days of Awe. Are we concerned with how we may appear when we are in prayer?

Hope Through Tears

Oct 4, 2024 By Joel Seltzer | Commentary | Rosh Hashanah

The haftarah for the second day of Rosh Hashanah echoes both the violence and the promise of the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, as Israel is described as 鈥渢he people escaped from the sword鈥� (Jer. 31:2), while God promises, 鈥淭here is hope for your future鈥攜our children shall return to their country鈥� (31:17).

The Esslingen Mahzor

By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Rosh Hashanah | Yom Kippur

In the winter of 1290 in Esslingen, a small market town in southwest Germany, a talented Jewish scribe named Kalonimos ben Yehudah completed his one surviving credited work, The Esslingen Mahzor (MS New York 9344), the earliest-dated Hebrew book made in Germany. It is a large-format prayer book created for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.

Sha鈥榓r Bat Rabim

Sep 16, 2024 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Rosh Hashanah | Yom Kippur

Sha鈥榓r Bat Rabim is an extraordinary manuscript/printed-book hybrid that vividly illustrates the concept of the 鈥渓ives of books.鈥� This volume, originally printed in Venice, serves as a prayer book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur according to the Ashkenazic rite.

The Toledo-Constantinople Bible

By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Rosh Hashanah | Yom Kippur

Like all Masoretic texts, the Toledo-Constantinople Bible (MS New York L6) includes precise Hebrew and Aramaic text, vocalization, and accents of the 24 books of the Hebrew canon. The colophon[1] of this Bible reveals a statement of profound resilience.

Petition or Protest

Aug 30, 2024 By Adam Zagoria-Moffet | Commentary | Re'eh | Rosh Hashanah | Yom Kippur

Our Sages saw Hannah as trying to trap God into offering blessing, and they interpreted the same from another unlikely context, one that also occurs during this month鈥檚 Torah readings. We read about the apparently bizarre mitzvah ofshilu鈥檃h haken, the sending away of the mother bird.Deut. 22:6鈥�7is the sole description of this shockingly precise mitzvah: 鈥淚f you happen upon a bird鈥檚 nest while on the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, whether with chicks in it or still-unhatched eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the eggs or chicks, you shall not take the mother with the young. Instead, chase away the mother bird and take the young鈥攊n order that you be well and your days long.鈥�

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Hagar鈥檚 Tears and Ours: Choosing Connection over Despair

Nov 3, 2023 By Rabbi Ayelet Cohen | Commentary | Vayera | Rosh Hashanah

Genesis offers us narratives of our biblical ancestors struggling with many of the deepest challenges that we may face in our lives, whether in our familial or interpersonal relationships or as we face the uncertainty, fear, and loss of living in a broken world. Throughout the Genesis cycle we encounter families who accept the fallacy that there is not enough blessing to go around, and thus make terrible mistakes. Parents choose favorite children, siblings are pitted against each other as rivals. This year we return to these stories shattered by the horrific violence of the October 7th massacres, as we see a new and terrifying chapter unfold in the primal conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. We know that there is enough suffering and trauma and outrage to go around. We wonder if there is enough compassion or enough hope to carry us through this time.