This is real and you are completely unprepared : the Days of Awe as a journey of transformation /

Lew, Alan, 1943-

This is real and you are completely unprepared : the Days of Awe as a journey of transformation / Alan Lew. - First Back Bay paperback edition, July 2018. - xiv, 274 pages ; 22 cm

"Originally published in August 2003."

The Soul Stretches Out to Contain Itself: A Map of the Journey Everywhere He Went, He Was Heading for Home: Teshuvah I Turned, the Walls Came Down, and There I Was: Tisha B'av The Horn Blew and I Began to Wake Up: Elul This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: Selichot The Horn Blows, the Gates Swing Open, and We Feel the Winds of Heaven: Rosh Hashanah What the Soul Does While the Gates Are Still Open: The Ten Days of Teshuvah The Soul Hears Its Name Being Called: Kol Nidre Death and Yom Kippur Atone The Gates Clang Shut: Neilah Epilogue: The Stars Are Shining on My Head: Sukkot 1 3 -- 2 19 -- 3 35 -- 4 64 -- 5 93 -- 6 113 -- 7 151 -- 8 176 -- 9 212 -- 10 256 -- 263.

A guide to the Days of Awe, a period in which members of the Jewish faith participate in a series of prayers and rituals that reenact the soul's experiences of a lifetime and open themselves to God.

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High Holidays.
Spiritual life--Judaism.
Judaism--Rites and ceremonies.

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