| Malchuyot,
zichronot, shofrot
In Jewish liturgy Rosh Hashanah is described as "the day of
judgment" (Yom ha-Din) and "the day of remembrance"
(Yom ha-Zikkaron). Some midrashic descriptions depict God as sitting
upon a throne, while books containing the deeds of all humanity
are opened for review, and each person passing in front of Him for
evaluation of his or her deeds.
The Talmud provides the guidelines for the day's prayers and the
rationale for the three central ideas behind the day:
"The Holy One said, 'on Rosh Hashanah recite before Me [verses
of] Sovereignty, Rememberance, and Shofar blasts (malchuyot, zichronot,
shofrot): Sovereignty so that you should make Me your King; Remembrance
so that your remembrance should rise up before Me. And through what?
Through the Shofar.' (Rosh Hashanah 16a, 34b)"[4]
This is reflected in the prayers composed by the classical rabbinic
sages for Rosh Hashanah found in all machzorim where the theme of
the prayers is the strongest theme is the "coronation"
of God as King of the universe in preparation for the acceptance
of judgments that will follow on that day, symbolized as "written"
into a Divine book of judgments, that then hang in the balance for
ten days waiting for all to repent, then they will be "sealed"
on Yom Kippur. The assumption is that everyone was sealed for life
and therefore the next festival is Sukkot (Tabernacles) that is
referred to as "the time of our joy" (z'man simchateinu).
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