40 Days of Return: Psalms for the Days of Awe
Forty psalms for the forty days from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur. This is the Tanakh's season of return: Moshe climbed Sinai for a final forty days and came down on Yom Kippur with the second tablets, the sign that God forgives (Exodus 34), and Leviticus 23 sets these days apart as appointed times. The plan opens with Psalm 27, recited daily through Elul, walks the classic selichot psalms of teshuva, sounds the shofar psalms of Rosh Hashana, and climbs through the Aseret Yemei Teshuva to the closing gates of Yom Kippur.
40 Tage
- Tag 1: The Psalm of the Season
- Tag 2: Show Me Your Paths
- Tag 3: The Joy of Being Forgiven
- Tag 4: Create in Me a Pure Heart
- Tag 5: Out of the Depths
- Tag 6: For You Are Forgiving and Good
- Tag 7: As Far as East from West
- Tag 8: Do Not Rebuke Me in Anger
- Tag 9: Weeping at Night, Joy at Dawn
- Tag 10: Taste and See
- Tag 11: He Heard My Cry
- Tag 12: The King Who Sees Every Heart
- Tag 13: You Crown the Year with Goodness
- Tag 14: Teach Us to Number Our Days
- Tag 15: What Is Man?
- Tag 16: Shelter of the Most High
- Tag 17: Serve with Joy
- Tag 18: He Hears My Voice
- Tag 19: Open the Gates of Righteousness
- Tag 20: I Lift My Eyes to the Mountains
- Tag 21: You Search Me and Know Me
- Tag 22: Do Not Enter into Judgment
- Tag 23: Prayer of the Afflicted
- Tag 24: Near to All Who Call
- Tag 25: He Heals the Broken-Hearted
- Tag 26: Who May Ascend His Mountain?
- Tag 27: Cleanse Me of Hidden Faults
- Tag 28: The Shepherd
- Tag 29: As a Deer Longs for Water
- Tag 30: For God Alone My Soul Waits
- Tag 31: God Ascends with the Teruah
- Tag 32: Sound the Shofar at the New Moon
- Tag 33: Longing for His Courts
- Tag 34: The Thrones of Judgment
- Tag 35: When Hashem Returns the Returnees
- Tag 36: The Beginning of Wisdom
- Tag 37: Today, If You Hear His Voice
- Tag 38: Man Is Like a Breath
- Tag 39: A Quieted Soul
- Tag 40: The Last Shofar Blast