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Download the Online Addendum: Modern Translations of Avinu Malkeinu





Naming God

Avinu Malkeinu—Our Father, Our King

Edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD

6 x 9, 336 pp, Hardcover, 978-1-58023-817-5

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An illuminating in-depth exploration of the complexities—and perhaps audacity—of naming the unnameable.

One of the oldest and most beloved prayers—known even to Jews who rarely attend synagogue—is Avinu Malkeinu (“Our Father, Our King”), a liturgical staple for the entire High Holy Day period. “Our Father, Our King” has resonance also for Christians, whose Lord’s Prayer begins “Our Father.”
Despite its popularity, Avinu Malkeinu causes great debate because of the difficulties in thinking of God as father and king. Americans no longer relate positively to images of royalty; victims of parental abuse note the problem of assuming a benevolent father; and feminists have long objected to masculine language for God.

Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and thinkers from all Jewish denominations and from around the world—wrestle with this linguistic and spiritual conundrum, asking, “How do we name God altogether, without recourse to imagery that defies belief?”

Praise for Lawrence A. Hoffman’s Work

“Hoffman uncovers the depth of holiness and life affirmation.… In a seamless web, he weaves together past and present, ancient sacred scripture and contemporary spiritual reflection.”

Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, president, the Jewish Life Network; author, The Jewish Way

“When the glorious history of American synagogues in the twenty-first century is written, there is no doubt that Hoffman will be acknowledged as one of the primary architects of its transformation, revitalization and health.”

Rabbi Daniel Freelander, vice president, Union for Reform Judaism

“Offers great wisdom about the way religious rituals can help people make sense of their lives.”

Rev. Ruth Duck, associate professor, Worship Art, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

“Rabbi Hoffman’s book will enrich your soul.”

Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles; author, Why Be Jewish?

“Hoffman’s precision … [is] evident…. Worth reading … meticulous.”

Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

“If the quality of [this] … work is continued in future ones, Hoffman has another award-winning series on his hands…. Excellent.”

Reporter (Binghamton, NY)

“Lawrence Hoffman shows us how, by understanding the dynamic between a person and God and among people gathered for prayer, the length of our communal reach can exceed the sum of our individual efforts. In doing so, he helps us discover our collective heart.”

Rabbi Jack Moline, Agudas Achim Congregation, Alexandria, VA

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL, holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean’s Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is vice president of American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is a member of the philosophy department, supervises the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program, and mentors Camp Ramah in California. He is also dean of Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam, Germany, ordaining rabbis for the European Union. A regular columnist for the Huffington Post, he is author of many articles and books, including God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology and Passing Life’s Tests: Spiritual Reflections on the Trial of Abraham, the Binding of Isaac (both Jewish Lights). He contributed to All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Tony Bayfield, CBE, DD (Cantuar), is professor of Jewish theology and thought at Leo Baeck College in London. He is also president of the Movement for Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Dr. Annette M. Boeckler is senior lecturer for liturgy at Leo Baeck College in London and manager of its library. She studied theology, Jewish studies, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Germany and Switzerland and chazzanut both privately (with Cantor Marcel Lang, z”l, and Cantor Jeremy Burko) and at the Levisson Instituut in Amsterdam. She contributed to All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and to My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef; All These Vows—Kol Nidre; and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Jewish Study Bible, which won the National Jewish Book Award; coauthor of The Bible and the Believer; and author of How to Read the Jewish Bible, among other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air by Terry Gross.

Dr. Erica Brown is a writer and an educator. She is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow, and the recipient of the Covenant Award. She is author of Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities, a National Jewish Book Award finalist; Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism; and Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things (all Jewish Lights); and coauthor of The Case for Jewish Peoplehood: Can We Be One? (Jewish Lights), Return, In the Narrow Places, Leadership in the Wilderness, and Happier Endings. She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights). Her articles have appeared on the Newsweek/Washington Post website “On Faith.”

Gordon Dale, MA, is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, and holds an MA in ethnomusicology from Tufts University. He is a Mellon Doctoral Student Fellow at the Committee for the Study of Religion and currently focuses his studies on music and modernity in contemporary Haredi Jewish life. He teaches at Brooklyn College and the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.

Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson is the senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. Prior to his appointment in 2013, he served for eleven years as the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester and for five years as assistant and associate rabbi at New York City’s Central Synagogue.

Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, CM, DHL, DD, has been rabbi of Solel Congregation of Mississauga, Ontario, since its inception in 1973. He is author of The Mystical Study of Ruth; former editor of the CCAR Journal; and a contributor to We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Paul Freedman is senior rabbi of Radlett Reform Synagogue, one of the largest and fastest-growing synagogues in the United Kingdom. He was final editor of Haggadateinu, the first British Reform Movement Haggadah and is coeditor of the next machzor. He is married to Vanessa, and they are proud parents of Katie and Joshua.

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand received her rabbinic ordination in 1993 at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She has served as chief executive of the British Movement for Reform Judaism and prior to that was vice president of the Wexner Heritage Foundation in New York. Currently she is director of JHub, an operating program of the London-based Pears Foundation. She contributed to All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Laura Geller, senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was one of the first women to be selected to lead a major metropolitan synagogue. She was twice named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America and was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans. She is the author of many articles in books and journals and was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. She is a fellow of the Corporation of Brown University, from where she graduated in 1971. Ordained by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1976, she was the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. She contributed to All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL, serves as coordinator of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) editorial committee on the forthcoming CCAR machzor. He has a doctorate in Hebrew letters from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and is the senior rabbi at Temple Sholom of Chicago. He is author of Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most (Jewish Lights). He contributed to We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, is the president of Liberal Judaism, UK, the rabbinic advisor to the European Union for Progressive Judaism, and coeditor of Machzor Ruach Chadashah. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Dr. Joel M. Hoffman lectures around the globe on popular and scholarly topics spanning history, Hebrew, prayer, and Jewish continuity. He has served on the faculties of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is author of And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning and In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language, and has written for the international Jerusalem Post. He contributed to all ten volumes of the My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; to My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; and to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. He has written and edited many books, including the My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and the Prayers of Awe series; and he is coeditor of My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century.

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, DHL, is cofounder and executive director of Mechon Hadar (www.mechonhadar.org). He holds a doctorate in liturgy and is the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities. He is a contributor to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights). Newsweek named him one of fifty top rabbis in America.

Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar teaches matters of the spirit to groups throughout the United States. She is senior rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in the Chicago area and the inspiring author of The Bridge to Forgiveness: Stories and Prayers for Finding God and Restoring Wholeness; Our Dance with God: Finding Prayer, Perspective and Meaning in the Stories of Our Lives; and God Whispers: Stories of the Soul, Lessons of the Heart (all Jewish Lights). She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, and May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, PhD, is professor of classical Judaica at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Mystical Meaning of Lekha Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat and of the audio books The Moral Meaning of the Bible and The Hidden Poetry of the Jewish Prayerbook. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; and to the My People’s Prayer Book volumes P’sukei D’zimrah (Morning Psalms) and Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue) (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Asher Lopatin is the president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, an Orthodox rabbinical school that teaches an inclusive, open, and inquisitive Torah. He is the former rabbi of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation, a modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago, and is a founding rabbi of the multidenominational Chicago Jewish Day School. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (both Jewish Lights).

Catherine Madsen is the author of The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech; In Medias Res: Liturgy for the Estranged; and a novel, A Portable Egypt. She is librettist for Robert Stern’s oratorio “Shofar” (on the CD Awakenings, Navona Records NV5878) and bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center. She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD, is emeritus professor of Bible at Leo Baeck College in London, where he was principal (president) from 1985 to 2005. He is coeditor of three volumes of Forms of Prayer (the prayer books of the British Movement for Reform Judaism) and editor of the eighth edition of Daily, Sabbath and Occasional Prayers. He is editor of the journal European Judaism. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD, is a professor of liturgy and midrash at the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe. Rabbi Marx earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and her rabbinic ordination at HUC–JIR in Jerusalem and Cincinnati. She is the author of When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn and A Femnist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, and coeditor of three books. She is involved in various research groups and is active in promoting progressive Judaism in Israel. Rabbi Marx contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights). She writes for academic journals and the Israeli press and is engaged in creating new liturgies and midrashim.

Chazzan Danny Maseng has served as cantor and music director of Temple Israel of Hollywood in California and is patron artist of the Abraham Geiger School of Cantorial Arts in Berlin, Germany. The critically acclaimed off-Broadway one-man show Wasting Time with Harry Davidowitz and the innovative theatrical concert Soul on Fire have earned Danny accolades. A book about the luminaries of Israeli songwriting is in the works, and a novel titled Apollonia has just been completed. Danny is an internationally known composer of contemporary liturgical and synagogue music, performs extensively on stage, television, and film, and has been the guest of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

Ruth Messinger is the president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD, is the dean of Leo Baeck College in London, where he has taught since 1984. He is coeditor with Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, of the Liberal Judaism Machzor Ruach Chadashah and the anthologies High and Holy Days: A Book of Jewish Wisdom and A Jewish Book of Comfort. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Jack Riemer, well-known author and speaker, has conducted many workshops and seminars to help people learn about the inspiring tradition of ethical wills and to prepare their own. As head of the National Rabbinic Network, a support system for rabbis across denominational lines, he gives sermon seminars to rabbis throughout the United States. He is editor of The World of the High Holy Days and Wrestling with the Angel, and coeditor of Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them: A Guide to Sharing Your Values from Generation to Generation (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (both Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, DMin, is a noted author whose work has appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, and the Forward. He is editor of The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions and Text Messages: A Torah Commentary for Teens; and author of Being God’s Partner: How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work, the bestseller Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah, and Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships (all Jewish Lights), among other books. He contributed to We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (both Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso, DMin, has been senior rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis, Indiana, since 1977. He lectures worldwide on Caribbean and Central American Sephardic Jewry and teaches about Reconstructionism and on interfaith relations. Rabbi Sasso is a founder and past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. He serves on the board of directors for the United Way of Central Indiana, the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, and the Lake Family Institute for Faith and Giving of the IUPUI Center on Philanthropy. He is affiliate professor of Jewish studies at Christian Theological Seminary (Disciples of Christ). He contributed to All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, DMin, is rabbi emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis, where she has served for thirty-six years, and director of the Religion, Spirituality, and Arts Initiative at Butler University in partnership with Christian Theological Seminary. She is the author of award-winning children’s books, including God’s Paintbrush, In God’s Name, and Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other, winner of the National Jewish Book Award (both Jewish Lights); Creation’s First Light, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; and Anne Frank and the Remembering Tree. She is also author of Midrash: Reading the Bible with Question Marks and coauthor of Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters. She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin, was ordained at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and has a doctor of ministry degree from the Pacific School of Religion. He is the author of Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice and A Partner in Holiness: Deepening Mindfulness, Practicing Compassion and Enriching Our Lives through the Wisdom of R. Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev’s Kedushat Levi. He is also codirector of programs at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality as well as an instructor in meditation at the JCC in Manhattan and other venues. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi David Stern is senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, and May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD, the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. He was editor in chief of the seven-volume Kol Haneshamah prayer book series. His book A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living won the National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. He is also author of Spiritual Community: The Power to Restore Hope, Commitment and Joy (Jewish Lights) and several other books. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD, teaches liturgy and homiletics at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and is rabbi emerita of Beth Am, The People’s Temple. She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel is the senior rabbi of Temple Micah in Washington, DC. He contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

Dr. Wendy Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. She is editor with Rabbi Carole Balin, PhD, and translator of To Tread on New Ground: The Selected Writings of Hava Shapiro and Behikansi atah (Shapiro’s collected writings, in the original/Hebrew). She is also author of And Rachel Stole the Idols and the feminist Haggadah commentary featured in My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries (Jewish Lights), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She contributed to Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef, All These Vows—Kol Nidre, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (all Jewish Lights).

 



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