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Rosh Ha-shana Journal - 5770

Rosh Ha-shana Messages from the Roshei Yeshiva

HaRav Yehuda Amital - "You Love is Better that Wine": The Meaning of the Decree against Blowing Shofar on Shabbat

HaRav Yair Kahn- "Rosh Ha-shana - The Jewish Celebration of a Cosmic Event

Rav David Brofsky- Fear and Joy: The Experience of Rosh Ha-shana

Previous Journal Articles

The Season of Repentance
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Righteousness is Yours, O Lord, While Shame is Ours"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Individual Repentance and National Repair
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Purify our Hearts to Serve You in Truth"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Lessons of Selichot
HaRav Yehuda Amital		How Can We Speak and How Can We Justify Ourselves?
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Needy and Destitute, We Knock at Your Door"
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Changing Paths - Not Just Deeds
Rav Avi Baumol		Faith in the "Land of Life"
Rav Yonatan Grossman		Israel's Return and God's Return
Rav Alex Israel		Teshuva: Two Dimensions of Return
Rav Zvi Shimon		"It is Very Near to You" - The Path of Return

The Meaning of Rosh Ha-shana
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"So That Their Memory be Invoked Before Me"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Hope and Despair in the Akeida
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		The Day of Remembrance
HaRav Mosheh Lichtenstein		"For I am a Father to Israel, and Efrayim is My Firstborn"
HaRav Mosheh Lichtenstein		Chana's Distress and Remembrance: The Haftara of the First Day of Rosh Hashana
HaRav Baruch Gigi		Chana's Prayer and Rosh HaShana
HaRav Yaakov Medan		The Themes of Malkhuyot, Zikhronot, and Shofarot
Rav Amnon Bazak		From a Day of Joy to a Day of Judgment
Rav Mordechai Breuer		Four Beginnings to the Year
Rav Asher Meir		Rosh Ha-shana: Fast or Feast
Rav Asher Meir		The Winter of our Discontent
Rav Asher Meir		Tashlich - The Complement of Shofar
Rav Yehuda Shaviv		Rosh Ha-shana and the Sanctification of the Months

The Meaning of the Shofar
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Simple Sound of Truth
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Sound of a Silent Shofar - the Problem of Rosh Ha-shana which Falls on Shabbat
Rav Alex Israel		Shofar-Facing Uncertainty
Rav Menachem Leibtag		Rosh Ha-shana: Yom Truah - Zichron Truah
Rav Moshe Taragin		Animal or Art: The Symbolism of Shofar
Rav Moshe Taragin		The Impact of Shofar upon Prayer
Rav Daniel Wolf		Shofar as a Form of Prayer

Halakha
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Eating Before Tekiyot
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Adding "Ha-melekh Ha-kadosh" and "Ha-melekh Ha-mishpat"
Rav Yair Kahn		The Relationship Between Shofar and Prayer
Rav Yair Kahn		Changes in Prayer During the Ten Days of Repentance
Rav Shlomo Levi		Prozbul
Rav Avraham Marcus		Rosh Ha-shana on Shabbat
Rav Doniel Schreiber		Defining the Mitzva of Shofar: To Blow or to Hear?
Rav Doniel Schreiber		Defining the Mitzva of Shofar: How Many Sounds Must We Hear?
Rav Moshe Taragin		A Shofar with a "Blemish"
Rav Moshe Taragin		A Shofar with a Hole
Rav Moshe Taragin		Why is a Cracked Shofar Disqualified?
Rav Moshe Taragin		Decorating the Shofar
Rav Moshe Taragin		The Halakhic Definition of the Mitzva of Shofar
Rav Moshe Taragin		The Structure of Tekiyot on Rosh Ha-shana