The reading continues.

Chabad.org city calendar; September 2026.

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Annual renewal of divine illumination.

Rosh Hashanah Musaf; context in the linked teaching.

Selected verses: 1, 4, 8, 13-14.

Da'at and the life of the heart.

The central themes of Rosh Hashanah Musaf.

Shofar as awakening.

Traditional meal context and symbolic foods.

Full traditional text in Hebrew and English.

Finding points of goodness in others and oneself.

From confinement into spaciousness.

Resembling divine compassion through conduct.

Traditional context; follow your machzor for the text.

Complete psalm rendered in the Yom Kippur section.

Especially 2:2 and 2:9: return and interpersonal repair.

Context for the communal confessions.

Selected verses 12, 14, 19 in Jewish numbering.

The prophetic call to justice and care.

The repentance of Nineveh and God's final question.

Remembrance and tzedakah.

Rabbi Yisroel Cotlar. Chabad teaching on yechidah and Ne'ilah. FOR FURTHER EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Chabad.org. Torah, maftir, and haftarah for both days.

Chabad.org. Morning and afternoon Torah summaries.

Full chapter via the reading navigation; commentary on prayer for another.

The binding of Isaac; full chapter.

Rabbi Nissan Dovid Dubov, Chabad.org; Abraham and Isaac.

The service of atonement; full chapter.

The traditional Yom Kippur afternoon reading; full chapter.

Rabbi Yael Levy, A Way In; published October 16, 2019.

Rabbi Yael Levy, A Way In; September 28, 2017.

Dennis Prager, Jewish Journal; August 28, 2013.

Dennis Prager, Creators Syndicate; September 19, 2023.

Official curriculum overview; Rabbi Doniel Katz / The Elevation Project. The contemporary writers are included for the particular ideas cited. Their perspectives are distinct, and inclusion does not imply their endorsement of this reader or agreement among them. The surrounding reflections and questions are original to this collection.

A family contribution

Jewish High Holidays: A Spiritual Journey, 5787 / 2026. Prepared by Joshua Church's mother; supplied by the family. Season-wide arc, soul-accounting questions, repair, dwelling, and beginning again adapted with gratitude.

Family-supplied contribution; no public link.

San Diego city center; traditional Diaspora cycle. Sukkot dates, times, intermediate-day aliyot, and closing-festival readings.

Nearness, return, and abundant forgiveness.

The call that gives Shabbat Shuvah its name.

Responsibility, a new heart, and the invitation to live.

Repentance, interpersonal wrongs, and reconciliation.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; machzor introduction excerpt, website publication October 10, 2016.

Efraim Palvanov, Mayim Achronim, October 10, 2024. Includes his proposed mystical reading of the sailors.

The festival calendar, the harvest's edges, and Sukkot.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, September 16, 2013. Faith, vulnerability, and the joy of Sukkot.

Chabad.org; the Four Species and the body, citing Vayikra Rabbah 30:14.

Efraim Palvanov, Mayim Achronim, September 28, 2023. Selected mystical and ethical themes.

Dennis Prager, PragerU, November 20, 2017. Video and transcript; gratitude and character.

Dennis Prager, PragerU, January 20, 2014. Video and transcript; our conduct's effect on others.

Kohelet's seasons of human experience.

Complete psalm; shelter and accompaniment.

Chabad.org; practices, water, and the season's judgment.

Chabad.org; the additional assembly, rain prayer, Yizkor, and celebration.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, October 9, 2004; audio recorded September 2018. With gratitude to Joshua Church's mother for the guide that helped extend this collection through the whole festival season. Its practices and questions have been adapted into the reader's open-ended format.