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    The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
    The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
    The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
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    The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season

    By Marcia Falk

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    The Jewish High Holidays—the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled numbers. Yet much of what they find there can be unwelcoming in its patriarchal imagery, leaving many worshipers unsatisfied. For those seeking to connect more deeply with their Judaism, and for all readers in search of a contemplative approach to the themes of the fall season, poet and scholar Marcia Falk re-creates the holidays’ key prayers and rituals from an inclusive perspective. Among the offerings in The Days Between are Hebrew and English blessings for festive meals, prayers for synagogue services, and poems and meditations for quiet reflection. Emphasizing introspection as well as relationship to others, Falk evokes her vision of the High Holidays as “ten days of striving to keep the heart open to change.” Accessible and welcoming to modern readers, The Days Between is steeped in traditional sources and grounded in liturgical and biblical scholarship. It will serve as a meaningful alternative or supplement to the traditional liturgy for individuals, families, synagogues, and communities small and large—that is, for all who seek fresh meaning in the High Holidays.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrandeis University Press
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781611686067
    The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
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    Marcia Falk

    Marcia Falk is a poet, translator, and Judaic scholar. She is the author of The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival; The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible; and two books of her own poetry, It Is July in Virginia and My Son Likes Weather.

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      The Days Between - Marcia Falk

      ALSO BY MARCIA FALK

      The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival

      a re-creation of Hebrew and English liturgy from a nonhierarchical, gender-inclusive perspective, with notes and commentary

      The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible

      translations from the Hebrew

      The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda

      translations from the Hebrew, with notes and introduction

      With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman

      translations from the Yiddish, with notes and introduction

      The Song of Songs: A New Translation and Interpretation

      translation, notes, and commentary

      My Son Likes Weather

      poems

      This Year in Jerusalem

      poems

      It Is July in Virginia

      poems

      Brandeis University Press

      An imprint of University Press of New England

      www.upne.com

      © 2014 Marcia Lee Falk

      All rights reserved

      For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com

      Cover art: Gilead Apples, Marcia Falk, watercolor pencil.

      May the year be sweet as apples dipped in honey and full as the ripe pomegranate with blessings.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Falk, Marcia, author.

      The days between: blessings, poems, and directions of the heart for the Jewish High Holiday season / Marcia Falk.

      pages cm. — (HBI series on Jewish women)

      ISBN 978-1-61168-605-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61168-606-7 (ebook)

      1. High Holidays—Prayers and devotions. 2. High Holidays—Liturgy—Texts. 3. Judaism—Liturgy—Texts. 4. Judaism—Prayers and devotions. I. Title.

      BM665.F36 2014

      296.7’2—dc23      2014002471

      In memory of Frieda Goldberg Falk 

      dedicated teacher, lover of Judaism,

      feminist foremother

      פריידע בת רחל ושמואל יהודה

      זיכרונה לברכה

      In memory of Abraham Abbey Falk

      man of compassion,

      lover of justice

      אברהם אבא בן שלום דוד והינדע

      זיכרונו לברכה

      And for their grandson,

      Abraham Gilead Falk-Rood

      אברהם גילעד

      Opening the Heart

      At the year’s turn,

      in the days between,

      we step away

      from what we know

      into the spaces

      we cannot yet name.

      Slowly the edges

      begin to yield,

      the hard places

      soften,

      the gate to forgiveness

      opens.

      תוכן העניינים

      *הקדמה: ימים שבין לבין

      בין ראשית לראשית

      בין ראש השנה ליום הכיפורים

      בין עבר לעתיד, בין לידה למוות

      בין הכריכות

      ראש השנה

      לפני השער:

      סעודת ליל ראש השנה

      הדלקת נרות לראש השנה

      ברכת הזמן (שהחיינו)

      ברכת הבת, ברכת הבן

      ברכת פרי הגפן (קידוש)

      ברכת פרי העץ: תפוח בדבש

      ברכת פרי האדמה

      נטילת ידיים

      ברכת הלחם

      ברכת המזון

      פתיחת הלב

      פתיחת הלב

      *הקדמה: ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום

      ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום

      *הקדמה: שופרות, זיכרונות, מלכויות

      שופרות

      זיכרונות

      מלכויות

      תהא

      נשליך במצולות ים

      הקדמה*

      נשליך

      שירי נחל וים

      מול הים, מאת זלדה

      גבעול הדשא שר לנחל, מאת לאה גולדברג

      העץ שר לנחל, מאת לאה גולדברג

      מתוך היום זה תמיד, מאת מלכּה חפֿץ טוזמאַן (שיר ידיש)

      חלון, ציפור, רקיע

      שיר של יום וכוונת הלב

      לעשרת ימי תשובה

      הקדמה*

      הירהור: חלון, ציפור, רקיע

      היום הראשון לראש השנה

      מתנה,

      ראיית הלב,

      היום השני לראש השנה

      יום הולדת העולם,

      לידה,

      היום השלישי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      התעוררות,

      נוכחות,

      היום הרביעי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      כמו ניצנים,

      הכרת תודה,

      היום החמישי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      רוח,

      עצב,

      היום השישי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      מנין שחרית,

      הזמן,

      היום השביעי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      בהביטך במראה,

      מוות,

      היום השמיני לעשרת ימי תשובה

      כנפים פרושות,

      שאלות פתוחות,

      היום התשיעי לעשרת ימי תשובה

      מה אתה שומע?,

      קול דממה דקה,

      יום הכיפורים

      מה יש לך?,

      אַין,

      יום הכיפורים

      התכנסות:

      ליל הכיפורים

      סעודה מפסקת

      נטילת ידיים,

      ברכת הלחם,

      ברכת המזון,

      הדלקת נרות ותחילת הצום

      ברכת הזמן (שהחיינו)

      ברכת הבת, ברכת הבן

      תשובת הלב

      התעטפות בטלית

      הקדמה: כל נדרי*

      כל נדרי

      תשובת הלב

      וידוי

      ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום

      הזכרת נשמות

      הקדמה*

      אזכור

      שירי אבל ונחמה

      כוונות לשעת אבל,

      לפני ואחרי,

      בית אבל,

      צפורים על צפצפה גוססת,

      לשאת,

      מבט אחר,

      אדמה,

      אינך שייך לך,

      תחת כנפי השכינה

      קדיש: יפעת תבל

      בעת נעילת שער

      שעת נעילה

      תקיעה גדולה

      מאחרית לראשית

      סיום הצום, ברכת הלחם

      חתימה: שער פתוח

      כניסה בשערים

      תפילה לימים הנוראים

      על ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום*

      מבנה, תוכן ותאולוגיה

      המבט מבפנים

      שלמי תודה*

      *באנגלית

      Contents

      Introduction: The Days Between*

      Between Beginning and Beginning

      Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

      Between Past and Future, between Birth and Death

      Between the Covers of This Book

      Rosh Hashanah

      Approaching the Gates: Festive Meal for Rosh Hashanah Eve

      Lighting the Candles for Rosh Hashanah

      Blessing of Renewal (Sheheḥeyánu)

      Blessing the Children

      Fruit of the Vine (Kiddush)

      Fruit of the Tree: Apples and Honey

      Fruits of the Earth

      Washing the Hands

      Blessing before the Meal

      Blessing after the Meal

      Opening the Heart

      Opening the Heart

      Introduction to Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day*

      Un’taneh Tókef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day

      Introduction to Shofarot, Zikhronot, Malkhuyot: Calls, Recalling, Callings*

      Shofarot: Calls

      Zikhronot: Recalling

      Malkhuyot: Callings

      May It Be So

      We Cast into the Depths of the Sea (Tashlikh Ritual)

      Introduction*

      Casting Away

      Poems of the River and the Sea

      Facing the Sea, by Zelda,

      The Blade of Grass Sings to the River, by Leah Goldberg,

      The Tree Sings to the River, by Leah Goldberg,

      From Today Is Forever, by Malka Heifetz Tussman,

      Window, Bird, Sky*

      Daily Psalms and Directions of the Heart for the Ten Days of Returning

      Introduction*

      Meditation: Window, Bird, Sky

      Day One | First Day of Rosh Hashanah

      The Gift,

      Seeing with the Heart,

      Day Two | Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

      Birthday of the World,

      Giving Birth,

      Day Three

      Awakening,

      Presence,

      Day

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