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.