{"product_id":"days-of-awe-isbn-9780805210484","title":"Days of Awe","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompiled by S.Y. Agnon, one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the twentieth century and winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, \u003ci\u003eDays of Awe \u003c\/i\u003eis the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayerbook. Here in one volume are readings from the meditations from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, to deepen the spiritual experience of the holiest days of the Jewish year. More than three hundred texts. selected from the vast storehouse of Jewish literature from ancient to modern times, are arranged to follow the order of the synagogue service for the High Holy Days. \"From the moment of its appearance,\" writes Judah Goldin in the Introduction, \"[this] volume seemed as though it had always been here, as though it had always been the companion of the holiday prayerbook.\"\u003c\/p\u003eFOREWORD BY Arthur Green • vii\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION BY Judah Goldin • xix\u003cbr\u003e PREFACE: The Argument of the Work • xliii\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BOOK ONE: ROSH HA-SHANAH \u003cbr\u003e I. The Motive of Rosh ha-Shanah • 11\u003cbr\u003e II. Elul: A Month of Preparation • 16\u003cbr\u003e III. The Sabbath before Rosh ha-Shanah • 26\u003cbr\u003e IV. Selihot: Penitential Prayers • 30\u003cbr\u003e V. The Eve of Rosh ha-Shanah: “Remember the Covenant: • 38\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Evening and Its Service • 48\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Morning and Its Service • 56\u003cbr\u003e VIII. The Blast of the Ram’s-Horn • 64\u003cbr\u003e IX. The Additional Prayer: Kingships, Remembrances, Ram’s-Horns • 81\u003cbr\u003e X. The Afternoon: The Casting • 92\u003cbr\u003e XI. The Second Day of Rosh ha-Shanah • 100\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BOOK TWO: THE DAYS BETWEEN ROSH HA-SHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR\u003cbr\u003e I. Seek Ye the Lord • 109\u003cbr\u003e II. The Laws and Customs of the Ten Days of Teshuvah • 122\u003cbr\u003e III. The Fast of Gedaliah • 130\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Sabbath of Return • 130\u003cbr\u003e V. The Thirteen Qualities • 141\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Eve of Yom Kippur • 147\u003cbr\u003eVII. The Afternoon Prayer for the Eve of Yom Kippur • 165\u003cbr\u003eVIII. The Final Preparations for Yom Kippur • 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK THREE: YOM KIPPUR\u003cbr\u003eI. The Significance of the Day • 183\u003cbr\u003eII. Restriction • 190\u003cbr\u003eIII. Before Kol Nidre • 203\u003cbr\u003eIV. Kol Nidre and the Night of Yom Kippur • 210\u003cbr\u003eV. The Gates of Compassion • 225\u003cbr\u003eVi. The Morning Service and the Memorial Prayer • 237\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Additional Prayer: The Service of the High Priest • 237\u003cbr\u003e VIII. The Afternoon Prayer • 261\u003cbr\u003e IX. Neilah: The Closing of the Gates • 265\u003cbr\u003e X. ‘Hear O Israel’ and the Final Blast • 267\u003cbr\u003e XI. The Close of Yom Kippur • 272\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHY • 281\u003cbr\u003e PUBLISHER’S NOTE • 296\"When you read \u003ci\u003eDays of Awe, \u003c\/i\u003eat home or in the synagogue, think of Agnon as an old Jew from a world now vanished who happens to sit down next to you. He begins to tell you a tale, a parable, or a custom . . . that will open your heart to the splendor and richness, alongside the terror and awe, with which Jews have crowned this season.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from the Foreword by Arthur Green\u003cb\u003eSHMUEL YOSEF AGNON\u003c\/b\u003e was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ukraine). He later immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, and died in Jerusalem, Israel. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e. In a wider context, he contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966.\u003cb\u003eThe Motive of Rosh ha-Shanah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Holy Convocation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation. Ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day of blowing the horn unto you. And ye shall prepare a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish; and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram, and one tenth part for every lamp of the seven lambs; and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; beside the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering therefor, and their drink offerings, according unto their ordinance, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire until the Lord. [Num. 29:1-6]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadek, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. And they set the altar upon its bases, for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries, and they offered burnt-offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt-offerings morning and evening. [Ezra 3:1-3]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the congregation, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from the early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive upon the book of the Law. And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they has made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people—for he was above the people—and when he opened it, all the people stood up. And Ezra blessed the Lord with their faces to the ground. Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaia, even the Levites, cause the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place. And they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people: ‘This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not, nor weep.’ For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law. Then he said until them: ‘Go your way, eat the far, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord; neither be ye grieved; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.’ So the Levites stilled all the people, saying: ‘Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.’ [Neh. 8:1-11]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE DAY OF JUDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast-day” (Ps. 81:4). Rabbi Phineas and Rabbi Hilkiah said in the name of Rabbi Simon: All the ministering angels assemble before the Holy One, blessed be he, and say, “Master of the universe, when is the New Year’s Day?” And he says to them, “Is it me you are asking? Let us both of us ask the Court below!” Because of the verse (\u003ci\u003eibid.\u003c\/i\u003e): “For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.” [Midrash Tehillim]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It has been taught: Rabbi Eliezer says, In the month of Tishri the world was created, in Tishri the patriarchs were born, in Tishri the patriarchs died. On Rosh ha-Shanah Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah were remembered on high and conceived, on Rosh ha-Shanah Joseph left prison, on Rosh ha-Shanah the bondage of our ancestors ceased in Egypt. In the month of Nisan they were redeemed, and in Tishri they will be redeemed in time to come. [Rosh ha-Shanah I0b-11a]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The world is judged at four season: at Passover, in regard to grain; on the Feast of Weeks, in regard to the fruit of the tree; on Rosh ha-Shanah, all the inhabitants of this world file before Him. As it is said, “He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, that considereth all their doings” (Ps. 33:15). On the Feast of Booths, the world is judged in regard to rain. [Mishnah Rosh ha-Shanah I.2]\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e All things are judged on Rosh ha-Shanah, and their fate is sealed on Yom Kippur, are the worlds of Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Judah, in the name of Rabbi Akiba, says: All things judged on Rosh ha-Shanah, but the fate of each and every one of them is sealed in its proper season; at Passover, the fate of the grain, at the Feast of Weeks, that of the fruit of the tree, and at the Feast of Booths, that of rain. 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