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Days of Awe ימים נוראים

1Judgment, Reward, and Punishmentא - הדין השכר והעונש
  1. 1.Days of Creation; Blessing and Judgment
  2. 2.Justice and Judgment
  3. 3.Times of Judgment
  4. 4.The Gradual Development of Blessing and Judgment
  5. 5.Judgment and the Next World
  6. 6.The Profundity and Complexity of Judgment
  7. 7.Considerations in Judgment
  8. 8.The Individual and the Collective in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora
  9. 9.The Judgment of the Jews
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2Selihot and Prayersב - סליחות ותפילות
  1. 1.Elul and Shofar Blowing
  2. 2.The Custom of Reciting Selihot
  3. 3.Selihot Nowadays
  4. 4.The Text of Selihot
  5. 5.The Days on Which Selihot Are Recited
  6. 6.The Timing of Selihot
  7. 7.Selected Laws of Selihot
  8. 8.The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
  9. 9.Penitential Fasting
  10. 10.Erev Rosh Hashana
  11. 11.The Hazan on the High Holy Days
  12. 12.Praying Out Loud and Standing Up
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3Rosh Hashanaג - ראש השנה
  1. 1.The Day of Remembrance and Judgment
  2. 2.A Day of Blowing
  3. 3.Rosh Hashana
  4. 4.Celebrating with Clothes and Food
  5. 5.Confidence and Joy
  6. 6.Crowning God King
  7. 7.Two Days of Rosh Hashana
  8. 8.Keeping Two Days Nowadays
  9. 9.Reciting She heheyanu
  10. 10.Malkhuyot, Zikhronot, and Shofarot
  11. 11.Prayer and Torah Reading
  12. 12.Symbolic Foods
  13. 13.The Timing
  14. 14.More Symbolic Practices
  15. 15.Tashlikh
  16. 16.Rosh Hashana on Shabbat
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4The Mitzva of Shofarד - מצוות השופר
  1. 1.The Mitzva to Hear the Teru'a
  2. 2.Thirty Blasts
  3. 3.Before and After Musaf
  4. 4.100 : Blasts
  5. 5.The Berakha, the Mitzva, and the Intent
  6. 6.The Mitzva's Timing and the Obligation of Women and Children
  7. 7.Shofar Blowing; Laws and Customs
  8. 8.Kiddush Before Musaf
  9. 9.Rosh Hashana on Shabbat During Temple Times
  10. 10.Rosh Hashana on Shabbat Post Destruction
  11. 11.Teru'a and Shevarim Defined
  12. 12.Teki'a Defined
  13. 13.Breathing
  14. 14.Mistakes and Interruptions
  15. 15.Shofar Defined
  16. 16.Miscellaneous Laws of Shofar
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5The Ten Days of Repentanceה - עשרת ימי תשובה
  1. 1.Repentance
  2. 2.Changes to the Amida
  3. 3.Torah Study and Acts of Kindness
  4. 4.Interpersonal Sins
  5. 5.Placating and Asking Forgiveness
  6. 6.Customs during the Ten Days of Repentance
  7. 7.Shabbat Shuva
  8. 8.Kapparot
  9. 9.Eating on Erev Yom Kippur
  10. 10.Customs on Erev Yom Kippur
  11. 11.Annulment of Vows
  12. 12.Nullifying Future Vows
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6Yom Kippurו - יום הכיפורים
  1. 1.The Gift of Atonement
  2. 2.Mitzvot of the Day
  3. 3.The Atonement of Yom Kippur
  4. 4.Communal Atonement in Light of the Covenant
  5. 5.Individual Atonement in Light of the Community
  6. 6.The Meaning of the Fast
  7. 7.Sins for Which Yom Kippur Does Not Atone
  8. 8.The Position of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi
  9. 9.The Position of the Sages
  10. 10.Types of Repentance and Atonement
  11. 11.The Jubilee, Repentance, and Freedom
  12. 12.Matchmaking
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7Laws of Yom Kippurז - הלכות יום הכיפורים
  1. 1.Honoring the Day
  2. 2.The Prohibition of Melakha and the Mitzva to Rest
  3. 3.The Mitzva to Confess
  4. 4.The Laws of Confession on Yom Kippur
  5. 5.The Times for Confession
  6. 6.Specifying Sins
  7. 7.Public Confession
  8. 8.The Timing of Yom Kippur
  9. 9.Accepting Yom Kippur; Candle Lighting
  10. 10.Accepting Yom Kippur; Kol Nidrei
  11. 11.Ma'ariv
  12. 12."Barukh Shem Kevod"
  13. 13.Torah Reading and Charity
  14. 14.Bowing during Musaf
  15. 15.The Meaning of Bowing
  16. 16.Birkat Kohanim During Ne'ila
  17. 17.Ne'ila
  18. 18.A Declaration of Faith and Shofar Blowing
  19. 19.The End of the Fast, Ma'ariv, and Kiddush Levana
  20. 20.Havdala
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8Laws of the Fastח - דיני התענית
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Ta'anit
  2. 2.A Patient whose Life is not in Danger
  3. 3.A Patient whose Life is in Danger
  4. 4.Who Determines the Risk?
  5. 5.What Types of Patient should Preferably Eat and Drink in Small Quantities?
  6. 6.The Psychological Dimension
  7. 7.The Laws of Eating for Children and Endangered Patients
  8. 8.Pregnant Women
  9. 9.Postpartum Women
  10. 10.Nursing Mothers
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9The Other Afflictionsט - שאר עינויים
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Ta'anit
  2. 2.Bathing
  3. 3.Bathing for a Mitzva
  4. 4.Perfumes and Ointments
  5. 5.Leather Shoes
  6. 6.Permissible Shoes
  7. 7.Marital Relations
  8. 8.Minors
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10The Yom Kippur Service in the Templeי - עבודת יום הכיפורים
  1. 1.The Holy of Holies and Yom Yippur
  2. 2.Supernal Unity and Lower Unity; The Providence of Unity and Justice
  3. 3.The High Priest
  4. 4.The High Priest on Yom Kippur
  5. 5.The Vestments of the High Priest on Yom Kippur
  6. 6.Immersions and the Washing of Hands and Feet
  7. 7.The Incense
  8. 8.The Incense Procedure on Yom Kippur
  9. 9.The Two Goats and the Bull
  10. 10.The Impurity of the Temple and Sacred Objects; Imperfect Faith
  11. 11.The Process of Atoning for the Sacred (Sprinkling the Blood of the Bull and the Goat)
  12. 12.The Two Goats
  13. 13.The Meaning of the Atonement of the Goat Sent to Azazel
  14. 14.The Order of the Service
  15. 15.The Confessions over the Bull, its Slaughtering, and the Incense
  16. 16.Slaughtering the Goat and the Completion of the Sprinkling
  17. 17.The Remaining Service of that Day
  18. 18.The Order of the Yom Kippur Service
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