Beyond Avinu Malkeinu: Creating Your Own Name for God for the High Holidays
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HaShem, Elohim, Adonai, Melech, Rock, Source, Shelter. How do we call out to God? Is God a king? A concept? Male, female, ungendered? A metaphor? Should we use traditional names for God or create our own when we pray?
After an intriguing debate about this on a Facebook thread, liturgists Trisha Arlin and Alden Solovy decided to explore this fascinating subject together. Alden will lead a text-based conversation on names, titles, and descriptions of God in Torah and High Holiday liturgy, some of which you may recognize and some of which you may not. Using the Avinu Malkeinu prayer, Trisha will then lead us into identifying which of these names, whether traditional, contemporary, or of your own devising, you want to use while you engage in the important holy conversation of prayer during the High Holidays.
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