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Recommended Reading and Listening for this High Holiday Season

Through the contemplative month of Elul, to the closing of the gates in the N'ilah service at the end of Yom Kippur, to the very last shofar call…
Check out these resources to enrich and deepen your High Holiday experience:

If you have more to share, please email me at shira@shirlala.com. I'd love to add it to this page.

Jewels of Elul
Conceived and produced by Craign Taubman and CraignCo
Our theme this year is Inspirations on the Art of Forgiving.
Twenty Nine inspired contributors will share personal stories about how
they have wrestled with the themes of reconciling, moving forward and
returning.

Preparing Your Heart for the High Holidays
Kerry M. Olitzky, Rachel T. Sabath, David J. Wolpe; Jewish Publication Society: July 1996.
This spiritual guided journal will help you prepare your heart and soul for the Jewish New Year. Beginning with the first day of Elul and concluding with Yom Kippur, the authors guide you through a process of introspection and "heshbon ha-nefesh," taking moral inventory. The authors suggest ways for the reader to overcome some of the familiar obstacles to faith. This is followed by forty steps to repentance, each consisting of a page of reflections facing a blank page where the reader can set down his or her own responses. The authors' commentaries are drawn from Psalm 27, the traditinal psalm for this period, as well as the other writings on repentance. Each blank page begins with a "kavvanah," a verse to trigger thoughtful responses in the reader.

Deepening the High Holiday Experience
An interview with Rabbi Karyn Kedar in Jewish Woman Magazine Fall issue 2005
One of Jewish Woman's 10 Women to Watch in 2004, Rabbi Kedar is widely recognized as an inspiring leader who guides people in their spiritual and personal growth.  In this interview she offers insights into the spiritual preparation and practice of the High Holidays.