Jewish liturgy
She comes from the Song of Songs. But what is she doing there?
Mozart and the Mahzor.
What happens when an Ashkenazi rabbi leads a Sephardi synagogue during the Days of Awe? A profound encounter with new moods in Jewish life.
Joseph Roth’s flight without end.
Writing Hebrew poetry after Auschwitz, with help from the Jewish liturgy.
The rabbis saw no contradiction, only completion.
Naḥmanides and the Catalonian liturgy.
A rich and eclectic commentary combined with a Zionist outlook.
On the martyrs of Pittsburgh.
At prayer, with the heads of animals.
Vows and human frailty.
Nishmat starts with the wide-open sky and the wings of eagles; it ends deep inside the recesses of the body, in our vital organs.
A restoration of tradition.
The theological tension within an ancient prayer.