Rosh Hashanah Book Yom Kippur Book
Survival kit
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There you are on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur; perhaps you are at home, maybe you are taking a relaxing walk, and in the back of your mind you are wondering what makes these holidays so "high." Or perhaps it’s the middle of High Holy Day services, and frankly you’re confused, or bored. What you would like to do is stop the services, raise your hand and ask a few questions-but you can’t.

Enter, the Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit. When you take this award-winning book to synagogue it’s like having a knowledgeable guide sitting right next to you. Shimon Apisdorf, an internationally acclaimed author, masterfully blends wisdom, humor and down-to-earth spirituality in a book that is destined to become a classic-and has already become a close and trusted friend to thousands around the world. 
  • Forget what you heard in hebrew school
  • Put your synagogue memories on hold
  • It’s time for a completely different understanding of the high holy days
While science, technology, and the Web are changing our world more rapidly than we can keep up with, the timeless questions of existence, identity, and spirituality are sounding an ever more resonant chord. Since first appearing in print, the Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit has sold over 200,000 copies, won a Benjamin Franklin award, and become a close and trusted friend to people around the world. This book seamlessly blends various strands of Jewish thought and spiritual insight to reveal a uniquely Jewish perspective on many of life’s most pressing and poignant issues. It has been said about Shimon Apisdorf that, “He understands the heartbeat of our generation with incomparable clarity.”

The Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit enables you to -
  • Discover within the holidays opportunities for transformative personal growth
  • Appreciate the hidden meaning behind the sounds of the Shofar
  • Understand the prayers before saying them
  • Access exciting new pathways to unlocking your potential
  • Explore the world of spiritual insights that fill the holidays with profound meaning
  • Follow the services, feel comfortable with the prayers - and - never be bored again!
Contents
1. Introduction: So Much To Do, So Little Time........................................................................................ 13
Yes. There can be a deeper meaning to all this Jewish holiday stuff.
2. Prologue: What’s a Holiday? .................................................................................................................. 19
Celebrations or passageways to spiritual growth?
ROSH HASHANAH: The Forest
3. Survival Kit User’s Guide........................................................................................................................ 27
4. How to Survive Synagogue .................................................................................................................... 29
Transforming the prayer experience into something powerful, relevant and meaningful
5. Ask a Jew a Question .............................................................................................................................. 31
Simple tools for self-awareness and self-discovery
6. Seven Questions People Ask About Rosh Hashanah ......................................................................... 35
The questions you’ve always wanted to ask: Short answers, deep insights
7. Take a Walk, Break Up a Stone, Listen to the Music, Act Like a Tree and Grow  ............................ 41
Seven mini-essays that explore how Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur nurture our nascent
capabilities and unlock our profound potential
8. Highlights of the Rosh Hashanah Morning Service ........................................................................... 53
Where brief, inspiring insights transform the prayers
9. Morning Torah Readings  ....................................................................................................................... 63
The Big Bang Theory of Rosh Hashanah  
10. The Shofar Service ................................................................................................................................. 69
The inner meaning of the sounds of the shofar 
11. The Mussaf /Additional Service  ........................................................................................................... 77
Essence of the Day
Yom Kippur: The Trees
12. Prayer Is  .................................................................................................................................................. 83
Six Perspectives on prayer help unlock one of the richest treasures in Jewish life
13. Kol Nidre - the Spiritual Summit ............................................................................................................ 93
The Credibility Factor
14. Teshuva: Four Steps to Greatness ...................................................................................................... 99
Where we discover the body-soul dynamic and how to tap it’s power for overcoming past mistakes and
achieving our highest goals
15. Momentum Builder ............................................................................................................................... 107
A powerful system for unleashing the ultimate in personal growth
16. Highlights of the Yom Kippur Morning Service ............................................................................... 115
Where brief, inspiring insights transform the prayers
17. The Forest and the Trees .................................................................................................................... 125
18. Morning Torah Reading ....................................................................................................................... 131
19. Highlights of the Mussaf/Additional Service .................................................................................... 137
20. Afternoon Torah Reading .................................................................................................................... 149
The Fine Art of Self-Control
21. Neilah: The Closing Moments ............................................................................................................. 149
22. Epilogue: The Morning After ............................................................................................................... 155
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
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