Rosh Hashanah 5787 falls on Shabbat, so the shofar is not sounded on the first day. Genesis 21, Rosh Hashanah 10b-29b, Sotah 10a, the Zohar of Emor, the Arizal, the Alter Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov and Rebbe Nachman on the cry underneath the instrument, with seven structural parallels to the week in the world.
Standing at the Gate: Nitzavim-Vayelech and the Last Shabbat of 5786 On the last day of his life Moses assembles every rank of the nation, binds the unborn into the covenant, tells them the answer is not in heaven, and hands the staff to Joshua in public. Deuteronomy...
First Fruits and the Weight of Covenant Parashat Ki Tavo — gratitude, mutual responsibility, and the blessings and curses that wait at the border of the Land Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8 · Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1–22 (Sixth Haftarah of Consolation)...