Crash Course in High Holiday Prayers: Musaf for Rosh Hashanah

So we don't have Avinu Malkeinu, um, until the very last of the prayers.

Ne'ilah, we say it anyway.

On Shabbos.

On Yo- Yom Kippur is on Shabbos.

It's Sh- Shabbos, Shabbos usually is not over when you're saying Ne'ilah.

Okay.

Um, but, uh, yeah, so, yeah, so Avinu Malkeinu is not yet.

We don't say it on Shabbos.

Um, but if you look at it, it's like, it's more or less the same thing that you'd find on a Shabbos morning davening.

You have the morning blessings, you have Pesukei deZimra, which is the same as the Pesukei deZimra, the opening stuff that you have on Shabbos morning, which is Baruch Sheamar, and a couple, like some, uh, some, a couple extra things in between that you don't really say on the weekday.

And then Ashrei, um, a few more things like the, the, um, psalms and a couple other things.

Then Nishmat and Sh'moneh Esreh, and then Yishtabach.

Well, you know, Baruch Sheamar, Ashrei, and Yishtabach, that's what you have.

Then you have Baruch Hu, the blessings surrounding the Shema.

We don't do it.

I think most people probably don't, but there, there are congregations, you'll see in the machzor, that add in poems, piyutim over there, um, in the blessings of the Shema, but we generally don't.

Um, you have the Amidah, which is, um, what you would expect from a Yom Tov Amidah or Yom Tov Shemoneh Esreh.

Um, it just has to do with Rosh Hashanah.

And then in the chazzan's repetition, they have a few extra poems, a few extra piyutim, and that's when, like, the responsive stuff gets going, and you start getting lost, and there's a lot of page-flipping because they put in a whole bunch of stuff that lots of people don't say, and we, some people say, thank God, don't say.

Um, and, um, and then, yeah, then we end with Avinu Malkeinu, and the Torah, and Haftarah reading.

Uh, the first, the first day, the Torah reading the first day is the, um, the story of Hagar, the second story of Hagar and Sarah.

Um.

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Um, yeah, so the, so it's when, it's when, uh, Hagar finally gets booted out of the house with her son, Ishmael.

That's, that's the first story, which is interesting.

The second, the second day, with, s- what we read is the story of the Binding of Isaac, which is what comes next.

Um, it, and in both stories, Abraham loses or almost loses a son.

Um, and, um, the Haftarah, the Haftarah for the first day, the Haftarah for the second day, many people find a little bit less interesting.

The Haftarah for the first day is the story of Channah, of Hannah, who has difficulty having a chil- having children, and her husband has another wife, and she has a ton of children, and it makes her very upset.

And she has this very, um, emotional outpouring to God, um, by, um, asking for a child.

And then she, and then, and then she, um, she, she's in the, she's in the tabernacle, she's in the Mishkan praying, and she's mistaken by the high priest, by the Kohen Gadol, for someone, for a drunk, and he tries to kick her out.

[laughs] And she goes, "Uh, that's not what I'm, that's not what I'm doing." And, um, and then he kind of gives her a blessing that her, that her, uh, prayers will be answered.

And, uh, lo and behold, she, she has a child, and that's Samuel, the prophet Samuel, who's one of the greatest leaders of the Jewish people.

Um, do you want- Sorry to keep you here.

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Um, so right now we're looking at just the outline of what the Rosh Hashanah prayers look like.

You take one of each.

Okay.

Thank you.

There you go.

[clears throat] And oh, um, there's one underneath.

Okay.

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Do you want us to sit here?

Got it.

Praise God.

Praise God.

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[laughs] Okay.