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