WRL 511 Synagogue of the High Holy Days
This course is designed to help students understand the structure of the liturgy for the Days of Awe, the micro and macro patterns and variations on those patterns through which the liturgy expresses its profound themes; to explore in depth the liturgical creativity of a central yet controversial piyyut; to help students notice and understand the ways in which our Reform liturgy has subtly or radically departed from the Orthodox liturgy and the theological implications of those departures; to explore variations in other liberal and in various Sephardi machzorim; all to help students to apply their learning, sensitivity and creativity to the design of coherent, purposefully shaped liturgical experiences for their congregations.