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Enter These Gates

Name: Enter These Gates
Author: Alden Solovy
ISBN: 9780881236514

Meditations for the Days of Awe

by Alden Solovy

212 Pages5.50 × 8.50 × 0.60 in

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ISBN: 9780881236514
Published: 1st Sep 2024

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Foreword
Rabbi Naamah Kelman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Blessing the New Year
Pervasive Peace
Wildly Unimaginable Blessings
Meditation on the Eve of a New Year
Sweet Cake
A New Year Begins
In This Turning: A New Year’s Day Meditation

Creation
Creation Sings
A Moment of Blessing
Time Is the Gift
In Plain Sight
Kneel and Rise
Hidden and Blessed

The Books of Life
The Book of the Wicked
The Book of the Righteous
The Book of the Between
The Book of Forgiving
The Book of Living
The Archives of Heaven

Seeking Holiness
Of Psalm 27
Hunger for God
Draw Me Close
On the Journey to You
Who Knocks?
When I Pray
Enter These Days

Vows and Commitments
These Vows
All Mitzvot: A Kol Nidrei Meditation
Prayer for My Congregation
I Walked with God
Hints of God
The Path to God

Shofar Blasts/Shofarot
Let Your Heart Stir
The Sound of Holiness
The Path of Righteousness
Clear a Road
Without a Sound
An Hour of Compassion

Sovereignty/Malchuyot
God’s Plan: An Introspection
Distances
Eternity
Foundation and Sky
Let Prayers Rise
To Be Remembered by God
Crown

Sin and Regret
An Easy Sin
Fear
Doubt
Anger
Shame
Allow Your Heart to Break
Sin Offering

Confession/Vidui
Meditation Before Vidui
Not Ready
Guilt That Isn’t Mine
Am I Ready?
Failures of Joy
Forgiveness Inside

Repentance/T ’shuvah
Repentance Inside
Regarding Old Wounds
Who, Still Broken
My Repentance
Join Me
Cry No More
The Silence That Speaks
Small and Large

Forgiveness/S’lichah
Remembering My Humanity
To Be Free
When the Light Doesn’t Shine
Forgiving God
Opposites and Antidotes
The High Priest
Why Forgive
Forgiving the Unforgivable

The Ancient Journey Village
Artifact
Winepress
These Ancient Stones
Seeking God
Ancient Dawn
History

Frailty
Walking Toward Sunset
Look for Me
Unfinished Business
To Relieve Fear
God Arrives
On the Day of My Death
My Rock

Justice
Is this the Fast?
Why Do You Slumber?
What to Cherish
Humble Before God
Strive
Where Is Mercy?

Memory/Yizkor
On Lighting a Memorial Candle
For the Bereaved
Mourner’s Lament
For Bereaved Children
Shoah Memorial Prayer
O Auschwitz, O Birkenau
Eileh Ezk’rah After October 7

At the Gates/N’ilah
The Entry to Our Hearts
Keep the Gates Open
Unlock the Gates
At the Gates
Meditation Before N’ilah
Your Gate

Permissions
Index of Liturgical Uses
Index of Hebrew References
About the Author

It is said that no one can put into words "the fragrance of a rose," but Alden Solovy comes very close. His poetry bridges the worlds of sacred and everyday; to read him is to get closer to the Divine. As a worship leader, these poems are essential in my preparation. Their mix of honesty and hope is redemptive.
---Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, coeditor of Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe

As in all of Alden Solovy's poetry, Enter These Gates sings to us and opens our hearts. The melody of his words moves us to find new meaning in a piece of liturgy or a Biblical text. He understands our questions, fears, and hopes, and gives voice to them all.
---Merri Lovinger Arian, Professor of Practice, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion

Once again, Alden Solovy demonstrates why he is one of the great pay'tanim (liturgical poets) of our time. With depth and warmth, he opens a window onto the Jewish soul. His words are desperately needed during these challenging times; they will lift us all to God.
---Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, author of Tikkun Ha'Am / Repairing Our People: Israel and the Crisis of Liberal Judaism

Alden Solovy's prayer poems give each and every one of us a language for seeking after and hoping for a direct and intimate experience of God. His pieces powerfully resonate with the traditional prayers, but make space for us as individuals.
---From the foreword by Rabbi Naamah Kelman, Dean, HUC-JIR in Jerusalem, 2008-23

To encounter Alden Solovy's work is to experience Judaism itself as if for the first time. ... In his latest book, Enter These Gates: Meditations for the Days of Awe, Solovy layers into his poetry something sacred and intentional, wholly original and deeply personal. ... Solovy has blessed us with a beautiful and poignant companion to our own personal journey through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
---Rabbi Brett Krichiver, The Jewish Post & Opinion

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