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 Kippur

Dear 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 2003

Rabbi 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.

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 Kippur

THE 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 HaShanah

Rabbi 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 HaShanah

Latifa 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 HaShanah

Rabbi 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 HaShanah

Rabbi 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 HaShanah

Rabbi 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 HaShanah

Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal

Ellul: Psalm 27
Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal

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Elul is the month of preparat

Facing the Music: A High Holyday Meditation

Rosh HaShanah

Rabbi Shefa Gold

Facing the Music: A High Holyday Meditation

By Shefa Gold

This is the time to know our own song, to allow the echoes of our thoughts, words and actions of this past year to ripple through us, awakening

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