On the Handles of the Lock

This collection of sermons continues “A Remembrance of the First Day” – sermons for the Days of Awe, published in 2001.

These times bring us face to face with the fundamental questions: life and death, judgment and compassion, sin, punishment and repentance. These are the themes that recur in both collections of sermons.

In the Yom Kippur sermons, the questions of social injustice and its repair, of I–Thou relationships and the like, take a central place. This, after all, is the very essence of the day – appeasing one’s fellow and renewing the covenant.