Marcia Falk is the author of three books of poems and highly acclaimed translations of biblical and modern poetry, including The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible. The Days Between is the sequel to her groundbreaking liturgical work, The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival.

• INTRODUCTION: THE DAYS BETWEEN • Between Beginning and Beginning • Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur • Between Past and Future, between Birth and Death • Between the Covers of This Book • ONE: ROSH HASHANAH • APPROACHING THE GATES: FESTIVE MEAL FOR ROSH HASHANAH EVE • Lighting the Candles for Rosh Hashanah • Blessing of Renewal (Sheheheyanu) • Blessing the Children • Fruit of the Vine (Kiddush) • Fruit of the Tree: Apples and Honey • Fruits of the Earth • Washing the Hands • Blessing before the Meal • Blessing after the Meal • OPENING THE HEART • Opening the Heart • Introduction to Un’taneh Tokef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day • Un’taneh Tokef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day • Introduction to Shofarot, Zikhronot, Malkhuyot: Calls, Recalling, Callings • Shofarot: Calls • Zikhronot: Recalling • Malkhuyot: Callings • May It Be So • WE CAST INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA (TASHLIKH RITUAL) • Introduction • Casting Away • Poems of the River and the Sea • Facing the Sea, by Zelda • The Blade of Grass Sings to the River, by Leah Goldberg • The Tree Sings to the River, by Leah Goldberg • From Today Is Forever, by Malka Heifetz Tussman • TWO: WINDOW, BIRD, SKY • DAILY PSALMS AND DIRECTIONS OF THE HEART • FOR THE TEN DAYS OF RETURNING • Introduction • Meditation: Window, Bird, Sky • Day One | First Day of Rosh Hashanah • The Gift • Seeing with the Heart • Day Two | Second Day of Rosh Hashanah • Birthday of the World • Giving Birth • Day Three • Awakening • Presence • Day Four • Like Buds • Gratitude • Day Five • Wind • Sadness • Day Six • Morning Minyan • Time • Day Seven • When You Look in the Mirror • Death • Day Eight • Open Wings • Open Questions • Day Nine • What Do You Hear • Silence • Day Ten | Yom Kippur • What Do You Have? • Nothing • THREE: YOM KIPPUR • GATHERING IN: YOM KIPPUR EVE • The Meal before the Fast • Washing the Hands • Blessing before the Meal • Blessing after the Meal • Blessing of Renewal (Sheheheyanu) • Blessing the Children • TURNING THE HEART • Tallit: Prayer Shawl • Introduction to Kol Nidrey: All Vows • Kol Nidrey: All Vows • Turning the Heart • Confession • Un’taneh Tokef K’dushat Hayom: We Declare the Utter Sanctity of This Day • REMEMBERING THE LIVES (YIZKOR SERVICE) • Introduction • I Recall • Poems of Grief and Consolation • Passageways of Grieving • Before and After • Grief ’s House • Birds in a Dying Birch • Enduring • Another View • Earth • You Do Not Belong to You • Beneath Shekhinah’s Wings • Kaddish: Beauty of the World • N’ILAH: CLOSING OF THE GATES • Closing Hour • The Great Call • FROM END TO BEGINNING • Breaking the Fast • Coda: Open Gate • FOUR: ENTERING THE GATES • Service for the High Holidays • FIVE: RE-VISIONING Un’taneh Tokef K’dushat Hayom • Structure, Content, and Theology: An Overview • The View from Within • Acknowledgments

“The Days Between . . . will be your inseparable guide to an insightful life, one more engaged and present in mind and heart.”