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1. What Are The High Holidays?

Coming in for Landing

Think of your year as a kind of space odyssey: You take off, fly around—and occasionally get lost. There could be lots of excitement, but then there's the collateral damage—at times, even grand mess-ups.

So now it's time to come back home. There you'll get your gear back in tune, reset your sightings, refuel and then take off again—with renewed strength to do things even better this time.

Where is home? Home is your inner self, that invincible, pristine core, never scathed, ever intact. Torah is your way to get back in touch with that place—and to keep the connection solid.

What are the High Holidays?

Where is home? Home is your inner self...The High Holidays are a period of special days at the onset of the new Jewish year, at the cusp between summer and autumn.

What's so high about the High Holidays?

You are.

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah—these are days for you to get more spiritual, more connected, more fulfilled and in tune with your divine inner self.

Some days are set aside for reflection and soul-searching, others for joy and celebration. They are filled with meaningful customs and beautiful rituals—especially meaningful and beautiful when you understand what's going on.

Which is why we put together this short guide.


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Posted: Sep 15, 2009
AMAZING!!!
Rabbi Freeman - you rocked this High Holiday piece/series! It is so user friendly, accessable, and down-to-earth - and at the same time packed w/ depth. You really gathered all the essentials, all the highest teachings and brought them so sweetly and tangibly down to earth. I love this piece, I love this site!! Thank you so much. This is an awesome guide to the high holidays.
Yashar koach! Enjoy - fellow readers....
shana tova!
Posted By Sarah Z, Israel



 


Tishrei in Ten
1. What Are The High Holidays?
2. Elul
3. Rosh Hashanah
4. The Ten Days
5. Yom Kippur
6. The Sukkah
7. The Four Kinds
8. Shemini Atzeret
9. Simchat Torah
10. Epilogue