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