High Holidays Resources
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Here are some recommended resources from The Posen Digital Library (PDL) collection to inspire your teaching, learning, and reflections during the High Holiday Season. You will need to register on the PDL to access these selections. Registration is easy and takes just a few minutes. This page will be updated periodically. Art, Paintings, Photographs
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Bible Selections
- “The Fall of the Southern Kingdom of Judah” includes the biblical story of Gedaliah (2 Kings 25); the Fast of Gedaliah is the day after Rosh Hashanah
- “Sacrifice,” for a description of the sacrificial system in the Bible and various laws around sacrifice from Leviticus chapters 1–5, and 7
- “The People’s Penitential Prayer from Nehemiah 9”
Essays
- Henri Chemoulli’s 1972 essay, “The Repatriated Ten Years Later”
- Rachel Adler’s 1971 essay, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1936 essay, “The Meaning of Repentance”
- Giuseppe Levi and Esdra Pontremoli’s 1853 “L’Educatore Israelita: A Newspaper of Readings for Jewish Families. Compiled by the Teachers Giuseppe Levi and Esdra Pontremoli”
Liturgy
- Rabbi David Shneyer’s 1992 modern interpretation of the liturgy, “Avinu Malkeynu”
- Richard Levy’s 1985 modern interpretation of the liturgy, “An Alternative Al Heyt”
- Elyokum Tsunzer’s 1875 modern interpretation of the liturgy, “Song of the Railway”
Poetry, Fiction, Plays
- Kurt Wolfskehl’s 1934 poem, “Yom HaKippurim”
- Eliezer Levin’s 1972 story “Bom Retiro, or The Childhood Neighborhood”
- Yael Feiler’s 1981 drama “Woman from the Earth”
Sermons and Speeches
- Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg’s 1937 sermon “Rosh Hashanah Sermon for the Jewish Father”
- Jonathan Eybeschütz’s 1744 “Sermon of Ethical Rebuke Preached . . . during the Penitential Period Preceding the New Year’s Day 5505 [1744], to the Congregation of Metz”
- Zerah Eidlitz’s 1766 parable on sermons, “Or la-yesharim”
- Shimon Apisdorf’s 1992 “Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit”
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