Preparing for the New Machzor and the High Holidays
FROM THE EDITOR
At the Gates
ARTICLES
Preparing for the New Machzor and the High Holy Days: An Integrated Approach
Elaine Zecher
SECTION ONE: FROM THE EDITORS OF THE NEW MACHZOR
The New Reform Machzor Is a Solution, but What Is the Problem?
Edwin C. Goldberg
What Happens When We Use Poetry in Our Prayer Books—and Why?
Sheldon Marder
The End of Liturgical Reform as We Know It: Creative Retrieval as a New Paradigm
Leon A. Morris
SECTION TWO: FROM PROFESSORS OF LITURGY AT HUC-JIR
“Lu Yehi”: High Holy Day Liturgy and Experience in Israel
Dalia Marx
Machzor: The Poetry of Truly Awe-Inspiring Days
Richard S. Sarason
A Tale of Three Machzorim
Richard N. Levy
Doing It Right or Doing It Well?
Lawrence A. Hoffman
SECTION THREE: FROM OUR COLLEAGUES
When I Hear the Shofar I Taste Chocolate: Seeking the Synesthetic on the High Holy Days
Evan Kent
Love, Liturgy, Leadership
Elyse D. Frishman
The Yamim Nora’im: Concentric Circles of Liturgy and Relation
Lawrence A. Englander
The Calves of Our Lips: The Inescapable Connections between Prayer and Sacrifice
Leon A. Morris
“Baavur Sheani Noder Tzedakah Baado”
Margaret Moers Wenig
Visions for a New/Old Reform Yizkor Service
Donald B. Rossoff
We, the Avaryanim, Chant Kol Nidrei
Donald P. Cashman
The Un’taneh Tokef Prayer—Sealing Our Faith, Not Our Fate
Y. Lindsey bat Joseph
Viewing Un’taneh Tokef through a New Lens
Amy Scheinerman
Mystical Journeys and Magical Letters: The Y’rushalmi’s Cosmology in the Machzor
Judith Z. Abrams
The Machzor before the Machzor: Interpreting the High Holy Days during the Second Temple Period
Aaron D. Panken
Yom Kippur in Moab: Reflections on the Setting of the Parashah
Elsie R. Stern
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
Maimonides’ T’shuvah to Ovadyah the Proselyte
Philip Matoff Posner
RESPONSES TO THE FALL 2012 SYMPOSIUM
Kenneth D. Roseman
Jeff Marx
POETRY
Stretching toward S’lichot
Ruth Lerner
Rosh HaShanah in the Pines, 2011/5772
Hara E. Person
What If
Donald B. Rossoff
Kol Nidrei
Jenni Person
Yom Kippur, The Essence Does Not Change
Yehoshua November
The Ankle of the High Priest
Joseph R. Black
The Wilderness of Tishrei
Barbara AB Symons
