This Year, Especially, I Can’t Understand Abraham’s Choice
I deeply love the trope (cantillation melody) of the Torah reading for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. It is slow and hauntingly beautiful and forces me to listen to every word of the text being read. On the first day of Rosh Hashana that text is the Akedah, the story of Abraham’s aborted sacrifice of […]