Collection of High Holidays Essays by Rabbi Eli

 

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1. 'The development of Kol Nidrei through the Oxford Machzor manuscripts' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2018).
 
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2. 'Rabbi Yom Tov of York: England's Yom Kippur liturgical poet and martyr'

 

Click here to read the essay (2017)
 
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3. 'The Piyyut - "For We Are Your Nation" (ki anu amecha) through Oxford's Machzor manuscripts' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2022)
 
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4. 'Maimonides on the Shofar' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2023).
 
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5. 'As the hart panteth after the water brooks (Psalms 42:1): reflections on an Oxford college coat of arms' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2021).
 
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6. 'Dominus Illuminatio Mea - The Lord is my Light: A High Holiday Essay' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2016).

 

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7. 'Let there be light: The personal to the universal'

 

Click here to read the essay (2026).

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8. 'Judaism: Man in search for G‑d or G‑d in search of man?' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2014).

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9. 'Should Jews forgive and forget?' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2012)
 

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10. 'Rabbi David Oppenheimer and the debate about synagogue melodies on the High Holidays in the 18th century' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2012)

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11. 'The Oxford Machzor Vitry Manuscript' 

 

Click here to read the essay (2011)

 

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12. 'Rosh Hashanah in the commentary of R. Elijah Menachem Chalfan's Renaissance commentary on the Torah'

 

Click here to read the essay (2025)