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Days of awe; being a treasury of traditions, legends and learned commentaries concerning Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur and the days between, culled from three hundred volumes, ancient and new.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970.
- Standardized Title:
- Yamim noraʼim. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Judaism.
- Jewish legends.
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, [1948]
- Contents:
- Book One : Rosh Ha-Shanah : The Motive of Rosh ha-Shanah
- Elul: a month of preparation
- The Sabbath before Rosh ha-Shanah
- Selihot : penitential prayers
- The Eve of Rosh ha-Shanah : "Remember in Covenant"
- The Evening and its service
- The Morning and its service
- The Blast of the ram's-horn
- The Additional prayer : kingships, remembrances, ram's- horns
- The Afternoon : the casting
- The Second Day of Rosh ha-Shanah.
- Book Two : The Days Between Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur : Seek ye the Lord
- The Laws and customs of the ten days of Teshuvah
- The Fast of Gedaliah
- The Sabbath of return
- The Thirteen qualities
- The Eve of Yom Kippur
- The Afternoon prayer for the eve of Yom Kippur
- Final preparations for Yom Kippur.
- Book Three : Yom Kippur : The Significance of the day
- Restrictions
- Before Kol Nidre
- Kol Nidre and the night of Yom Kippur
- The Gates of compassion
- The Morning service and the memorial prayer
- The Additional prayer : the service of the high preist
- The Afternoon prayer
- Neilah : the closing of the gates
- 'Hear O Israel' and the final blast
- The Close of Yom Kippur.
- Notes:
- "An abridged version of ... Yamin noraʼim ... condensed by the editor, Nahum N. Glatzer ... The major portion ... was originally translated by Rabbi Maurice T. Galpert, and the translation was revised, completed, and prepared for publication by Jacob Sloan under the supervision of the editor."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297).
- Local Notes:
- Acc.# 936
- Other Format:
- Online version: Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970. Days of awe.
- OCLC:
- 1145492
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