Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height! – a hymn for Rosh haShanah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height!” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “New Year (Roshe Hashannah)” as Hymn 60 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 61-62. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Aqedat Yitsḥaq

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Meditation on the Aqedah, by Shim’on Menachem

I had an opening, with the help and support of some holy chevrei, to take on Binding of Isaac and accompanying meditations that occupy a conspicuous space during the morning blessings. This is what came out. . . .

Categories: Aqedat Yitsḥaq

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq, Avraham Avinu, death and resurrection of the beloved son, English vernacular prayer, self-sacrifice, יצחק Yitsḥaq

Contributor(s): Shim'on Menachem

On the Reconciliation of Yitsḥaq: a meditation on the Offering of the Two Goats on Yom Kippur, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center)

Especially for those of us who use the Torah passages on the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael and the Binding of Isaac for Rosh Hashanah, together with Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman, I want to recommend that you read from the Sefer Torah the passage in Genesis 25:7-11 on the reconciliation of the two brothers as they come together to bury their dangerous father Avraham/Ibrahim/Abraham. . . .

Categories: Yom Kippur, Aqedat Yitsḥaq

Tags: Azazel, Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael, Israelis and Palestinians, peace

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow, Phyllis Berman and the Shalom Center

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