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Entering the High Holy Days provides historical background and an interpretation of the ideas, practices, and the liturgy of Judaism’s High Holy Days, giving them contemporary relevance. This classic guide to the most important days of the Jewish year was a recipient of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award. The High Holy Days—Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—are for many Jews the highlight of the...

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—the Days of Awe, or Yamim Noraʾim—are the most sacred days of the Jewish year, the time when more Jews attend synagogue services than at any other. (In fact, there is a close connection, at least in the Diaspora, between Jewish identification and High Holy Day observance; for years, school absenteeism on Yom Kippur has been one of the ways of measuring Jewish population figures.) These High Holy Days are a unique creation of
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