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N’ilah, “the closing of the gates” is, in many ways, the most anticipated worship service in the entire Jewish calendar. Coming at the end of the 24-hour fast that characterizes Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), it symbolizes the days of old when the gates of the ancient Temple closed at last, and with them, the last chance for prayers of atonement and reconciliation with God and with others. Nowadays, the synagogue service that replaced the Temple cult marks the occasion with heightened fervor: the only time all year when the gates of the ark that houses the Torah scroll remain open throughout the service; telltale melodies accompany the occasion; a final blast of the shofar (the ram’s horn) symbolizes the end of the fast and the new beginning that follows; special prayers celebrate the human capacity to create a life that matters beyond our own mortality -- and the presence of God who “reaches out a hand” to invite us into the new Jewish year that N’ilah’s final shofar blast inaugurates.All of this is the topic for volume eight in “Prayers of Awe,” the series devoted to exploring the depth of the Jewish High Holy Days. As with prior volumes, this one too comes with introductory essays on the history, theology, and deeper meaning behind the prayer experience. It then assembles some 40 short and accessible essays designed to unlock the mystery and depth of the occasion. Authors come from all walks of life – clergy and laypeople, scholars and artists, men and women across the generations – and from seven countries (Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Israel, the UK and USA).What music appreciation is to classical music, this series on prayer is to Jewish worship. This volume, in particular, explores Judaism’s timeless message of divine purpose and the ongoing search for meaning in a world of human frailty but also promise.
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When it comes to God, it is not belief that matters but experience. Where, in human life, does Judaism promise the possibility of experiencing God?The Thirteen Attributes (Adonai, Adonai, el rachum v'chanun), a small but critical prayer with which Yom Kippur begins and ends, highlights the Jewish insistence that the God of Jewish tradition is experienced through love. Of all prayers, this one especially tackles head-on the way we encounter God and how that encounter informs the purpose behind human life itself.Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and thinkers from all Jewish denominations and from around the world—explain how finite human beings can know an infinite God. They explore the history and significance of the attributes that the Hebrew Bible ascribes to God—and how Jewish tradition refines and recasts them as the best way also to understand human nature and our search for meaning.Prayers of Awe: A multi-volume series designed to explore the High Holy Day liturgy and enrich the praying experience for everyone—whether experienced worshipers or guests who encounter Jewish prayer for the very first timeContributors:Rabbi Jonathan BlakeDr. Annette M. BoecklerDr. Marc Zvi BrettlerRabbi Angela Warnick BuchdahlRabbi Joshua M. DavidsonRabbi Lawrence A. Englander, CM, DHL, DD Rabbi David Ellenson, PhDRabbi Shoshana Boyd GelfandRabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHLRabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhDRabbi Aaron GoldsteinDr. Joel M. HoffmanRabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhDRabbi Walter Homolka, PhD, DHL Rabbi Delphine HorvilleurRabbi Elie Kaunfer, DHLDr. Sharon KorenRabbi Asher LopatinCatherine MadsenRabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhDRabbi Dalia Marx, PhDRuth W. MessingerRabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD Rabbi Jay Henry MosesRabbi Julia NeubergerRabbi Sonja Keren Pilz, PhDRabbi Nicole RobertsRabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, DMinRabbi Dennis C. Sasso, DMinRabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, DMin Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhDRabbi Andrea L. Weiss, PhDRabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DDRabbi Daniel G. ZemelDr. Wendy Zierler