Rosh HaShanah
New Book: "The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope & Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims"
Israeli-Palestinian Collision | Abrahamic Celebrations: Jewish, Christian, & Muslim Connections | B'RESHIT/ GENESIS | Interreligious Relations | Peace of Abraham, Hagar, & Sarah: Sacred Seasons, Fall 2006-07 | Rosh HaShanah | War, Peace, & the Jewish Community | Yom KippurDear Friends,
In 2004, as religious animosities worsened around the globe, I joined with Sister Joan Chittister, a world-renowned Benedictine nun, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisti (Neil Douglas-Klotz), a Muslim Sufi who has written a remarkable series of books on Aramaic, Gnostic, and Sufi spirituality --
-- to write a book called THE TENT OF ABRAHAM: STORIES OF HOPE AND PEACE FOR JEWS, CHRISTIANS, & MUSLIMS.
We sent the manuscript to Karen Armstrong. She was so excited by the book that she wrote a Preface for it.
It was (June 2006) published by Beacon Press and won an enthusiastic "Starred Review" from the Library Journal. That review and others are below.
Song of Isaac and Ishmael
Rosh HaShanah | Rosh HaShanah 2003Rabbi Leila Gal Berner, 9/17/2003
Updated to link an audio file on 9-30-05
ISAAC AND ISHMAEL
copyright 1989 Rabbi Leila Gal Berner
(First two verses can be sung in Hebrew/Arabic or English)
Shalom aleichem, aleichem shalom, shalom
Shalom aleichem, aleichem shalom.
“Hayom Harat Olam” – Pregnant with Eternity
Earth | Rosh HaShanahBy Rabbi David Seidenberg, Fellow on Eco-Judaism for The Shalom Center and webmaster of neohasid.org
Dear Rebbeim -- This d’var Torah is written to be “modular” – you can use individual sections, and you can even change the order of the sections. It is equally meant to be used as a whole sermon. Please explore what use would be the best for you.
Shalom & shanah tovah, David
1) We hear the shofar and call out, ‘Hayom Harat Olam’!
“Today is the birthday of the world; Today the world is born”
So says the liturgy according to most readings. And this birthday is not just one of celebration: “Today the world stands in judgment.” These two motifs alone should give us pause today to consider what we are doing to the planet, to how we can restore the balance of the atmosphere, the balance of the waters and the air, of the forests and plains, the ocean and the continents.
THE PEACE OF ABRAHAM, HAGAR, & SARAH: Sharing Sacred Seasons, Fall 2007
What You Can Do | Abrahamic Celebrations: Jewish, Christian, & Muslim Connections | Interreligious Relations | Peace of Abraham, Hagar, & Sarah: Sacred Seasons, Fall 2006-07 | Rosh HaShanah | Sukkot | Yom KippurTHE PEACE OF ABRAHAM, HAGAR, & SARAH:
SHARING SACRED SEASONS, 2007
Shalom, salaam, peace! --
In the fall of 2007, several sacred seasons of the Abrahamic faiths will come together. At a moment of history when religious conflict and violence have reemerged bearing lethal dangers for each other and our planet, God has given our spiritual and religious traditions an unusual gift of sacred time.
Let us celebrate this rare confluence of THE PEACE OF ABRAHAM, HAGAR, & SARAH by praying and learning with each other and by acting together to –-
SEEK PEACE, PURSUE JUSTICE,
FEED THE POOR, HEAL THE EARTH,
THE SPIRAL DANCE OF GOD
Rosh HaShanahRabbi Arthur Waskow, 9/2/2003
The festivals we are entering are both unique to the Jewish people and universal in their meaning. For the peoples of the Northern Hemisphere, it is the time of harvest in the solar year, time to reflect upon our efforts: Have all our hopes and deeds brought fruitfulness, or emptiness? And since they have probably brought forth both, how do we celebrate what good we have wrought and turn from our mis-doings into renewed joy and dedication?
This need to pause to reflect uopon our selves, our deeds, our souls, is one we share with all humanity: Ramadan, Lent, and other times throughout the year that are set aside for quiet meditation.
Breathing the Festivals
Rosh HaShanahLatifa Kropf, 9/2/2003
In Seasons of Our Joy, I suggested that the festivals of Tishrei are a spiral of spiritual growth — at Rosh Hashanah (the new moon), birth; at Yom Kippur (egg-shaped moon), meeting a Partner; at Sukkot (full moon), harve
Hu Yaanenu /Hi Taanenu
Rosh HaShanahRabbi Arthur Waskow, 9/2/2003
May You Answer Us!
This more inclusive version of one of the traditional High Holy Day prayers can be sung to one of the traditional melodies. Shanah tovah!
Hu Yaanenu /Hi Taanenu
An Inclusive Version
You Who answere
New Year, New Name?
Rosh HaShanahRabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on teachings of Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Sheila Weinberg, and, 9/2/2003
We recite for the High Holy Days — "Tshuvah, tfilah, & tzedakah will avert the evil of the decree." (Self-transformation, prayer,
Redeeming Tashlikh, the Earth, & Our Misdeeds
Rosh HaShanahRabbi Arthur Waskow, 9/2/2003
Since this year the first day of Rosh Hashanah is Shabbat, most of our communities will on the afternoon of the second day do Tashlikh — going to running water, tossing into it symbols of cast-off "misdeeds," reci
Ellul - Psalm 27
Rosh HaShanahRabbi Benjamin J. Segal
Ellul: Psalm 27
Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal
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