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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... Sonner or later you gotta touch base
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 | 2. Elul
Reconnect
You're coming in for landing. Home base is sending out a clear, powerful signal. It's Elul, the last month of the Jewish year... | |
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 | 3. Rosh Hashanah
Re-entry
It's the day that the Grand Programmer of All Things sits back to consider whether this universe is really worth playing and then reboots the system... | |
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 | 4. The Ten Days
Return
"Repentance" implies that you were bad and now have to become good. Teshuvah means simply to return—to rediscover your true self and return to there... | |
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 | 5. Yom Kippur
Repair
Your spaceship has been landed and towed into the hangar for repair. But how do you fix a soul?
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 | 6. The Sukkah
Rehearse
An all-encompassing, embryonic, virtual world where whatever you do is a mitzvah... | |
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 | 7. The Four Kinds
Reunite
So now, get networked—with your Arba Minim ("Four Kinds") device | |
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 | 8. Shemini Atzeret
Rejoice & Refuel
G‑d is like a king who hosts a seven-day party. When everyone is about to leave, he holds back his closest friend and says, "Stay another day and we'll party with whatever is left." | |
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 | 10. Epilogue
Blastoff!
The High Holiday month is one long, grand high. But your mission begins now, as you blast off into the everyday, workaday world...
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