Ceremony and Celebration; Introduction to the Holidays

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The Mystery The Anniversary of Creation The Kingship of God The Coronation Exile and Return The Great Renewal Individual Responsibility A Day of Judgement Past, Present and Future What Rosh HaShana Says to Us

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

The Dual Festival The Strangest Book of the Bible What Is a Sukka?The Four Kinds Shemini Atzeret Simhat Torah Sukkot for Our Time

Pesah and the Jewish Task Prefigurations of the Exodus Reasons for the Commands Ozymandias Exodus Politics The Future of the Past The Omer; Three Studies The Song of Songs; Faith as Love Renewing the Covenant; On the Haftara of the Second Day The Division of the Reed Sea; On the Torah Reading for the Seventh Day Empathizing with Your Enemies; On Some Laws and Customs of Pesah

The Enigma of Shavuot What Happened at Sinai?Ruth; The Book of Loyalty and Love Shavuot Today

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Author: Jonathan Sacks

Bringing together Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s acclaimed introductions to the Koren Sacks Mahzorim, Ceremony & Celebration reveals the interplay of biblical laws, rabbinic edicts, liturgical themes, communal rituals and profound religious meaning of each of the five central Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot.

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