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Rosh Hashanah

Torah Reading

The Book of Job and its Paradoxical Relationship with the Akedah
Judy Klitsner

Turning to God when a Fertility Ritual Fails
Dr. Kristine Garroway

The Akeda and Rosh Hashanah 
Invoking the Original Oath God was Forced to Make 
Prof. Rabbi David R. Blumenthal

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Context
Recovering a Lost Ending of the
Akedah

Dr. Tzemah Yoreh

Channa’s Unconventional Prayer 
Dr. Tova Hartman

For Whom Does Rachel Weep?
Prof. Marvin A. Sweeney

Divine Justice 

The Chronicles of Divine Justice
Hartley Koschitzky

Punishing Children for the Sins of their Parents
Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber

Rosh Hashanah

The Paradigm of the Barren Woman: How God ‘Remembers’ on Rosh Hashanah
Dr. Rachel Adelman

Rosh Hashanah: Celebrating the Creation of the Individual or the Community? 
by Rabbi Dr. David Frankel

Buy Truth and Never Sell It
A Personal Reflection from Rabbi Norman Solomon on TABS, High Holidays 5775

History

Babylonian Rosh Hashanah 
Battle, Creation, Enthronement, and Justice
Dr. Uri Gabbay

Rosh Hashanah Between Tanach and Mishna: Missing Links
TheTorah.com – TABS Editors

A Shofar-less “Rosh Hashanah”:
A Karaite’s Experience of Yom Teru’ah
Shawn Joe Lichaa

Mussaf

The Psalm of the Shofar 
Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible
Prof. Alan Cooper

God’s Coronation on Rosh Hashanah: What Kind of King? The Theme of the Mussaf on Rosh Hashanah
Prof. Marc Z. Brettler

U’Netaneh Tokef: A Linguistic Analysis of the Phrase Ma’avirin et Ro’a HaGezeirah
Dr. Rabbi Jeff Hoffman

The God of All or the God of the Jews?
The Theological Tension of 
Aleinu

Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman

“Let Me Flee to My Helper”: A Rosh Hashanah Love Poem
Dr. Rabbi Laura Lieber

Mishnah

The Essence of the Hebrew Calendar
Prof. Aaron Demsky

From TheGemara.com
Composing Rosh Hashanah as a Day of Judgement
Dr. Rabbi Avraham Walfish




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