Tishrei 5781 | September 2020
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The High Holidays can be overwhelming, dozens of hours spent preparing and praying. A partnership between Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and the International Rabbinic Fellowship offers a guide to the machzor, featuring:
- Forgiveness-oriented poetry from Maya Bernstein
- Rabba Claudia Marbach on learning to empathize rather than victimize
- Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe on small changes with big impacts on relationships
- Rabbanit Gloria Nusbacher on the multifaceted understanding of God’s kingship
- Rabba Sara Hurwitz on freeing ourselves through Kol Nidrei rather than feeling eternally and internally trapped
- Rabbanit Leah Sarna on filling the attributes of God with meaning and forgiveness, and on the value in both prayer and sacrifice
- Talia Weisberg on balancing God’s Divine healing abilities with taking action to ensure personal health
- Rabbanit Michal Kohane on God’s dual role as Ruler and Parent, instilling dread and bashful love
- Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez on the shift from fearing others to fearing God
- Rabba Rachel Kohl-Finegold on breaking down barriers and erasing religious labels