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 jours
- Jour 1: The Psalm of the Season
- Jour 2: Show Me Your Paths
- Jour 3: The Joy of Being Forgiven
- Jour 4: Create in Me a Pure Heart
- Jour 5: Out of the Depths
- Jour 6: For You Are Forgiving and Good
- Jour 7: As Far as East from West
- Jour 8: Do Not Rebuke Me in Anger
- Jour 9: Weeping at Night, Joy at Dawn
- Jour 10: Taste and See
- Jour 11: He Heard My Cry
- Jour 12: The King Who Sees Every Heart
- Jour 13: You Crown the Year with Goodness
- Jour 14: Teach Us to Number Our Days
- Jour 15: What Is Man?
- Jour 16: Shelter of the Most High
- Jour 17: Serve with Joy
- Jour 18: He Hears My Voice
- Jour 19: Open the Gates of Righteousness
- Jour 20: I Lift My Eyes to the Mountains
- Jour 21: You Search Me and Know Me
- Jour 22: Do Not Enter into Judgment
- Jour 23: Prayer of the Afflicted
- Jour 24: Near to All Who Call
- Jour 25: He Heals the Broken-Hearted
- Jour 26: Who May Ascend His Mountain?
- Jour 27: Cleanse Me of Hidden Faults
- Jour 28: The Shepherd
- Jour 29: As a Deer Longs for Water
- Jour 30: For God Alone My Soul Waits
- Jour 31: God Ascends with the Teruah
- Jour 32: Sound the Shofar at the New Moon
- Jour 33: Longing for His Courts
- Jour 34: The Thrones of Judgment
- Jour 35: When Hashem Returns the Returnees
- Jour 36: The Beginning of Wisdom
- Jour 37: Today, If You Hear His Voice
- Jour 38: Man Is Like a Breath
- Jour 39: A Quieted Soul
- Jour 40: The Last Shofar Blast