Rosh Hashanah: Prayer and Study: Recent Episodes
Tamar Frankiel
Your experience of the upcoming High Holidays can be far richer and more enjoyable! This series of short podcasts throughout the month of Elul (August 22 - September 20) will help you make Rosh Hashanah a true spiritual journey, using any version of the New Year prayers. I'll be posting a podcast before noon each day of the week except for Shabbat.
Rosh Hashanah is the portal to many days of renewal and re-enlivening, the holidays of the month of Tishrei.
As we end our prayer with the Priestly Blessing, we discover a prayer for dreams. What does it mean?
The Kedushah prayer of Rosh Hashanah expresses hope for a unified society. What did the poets and sages think was necessary for that to come into being?
How the prayer Unetaneh Tokef sets the stage for our spiritual work on Rosh Hashanah and the ten Days of Awe.
The fourth world of the Mystics and the first three blessings of the Amidah ("Standing") prayer.
For people unfamiliar with the structure of prayers, this will help navigate the holiday prayer's changes so you can recognize where you are and what to expect.
The significance of the three paragraphs of the Shema as the biblical core of renewing the covenant.
Discussion of the context of the biblical passage in which the first paragraph of the Shema occurs.
Reflections on the second blessing before the recital of Shema, "Great Love" (or "Eternal Love" in some versions).
This podcast discusses the second section of the Jewish morning prayer service, "Verses of Song."
Insights into the personal blessings said as part of the first section of the Jewish morning prayer service.
The significance of blessings in Jewish life, to bring out potential for goodness in the world.