Image: A tallit (prayer shawl) sits on an open prayer book. (MstudioG/Shutterstock)
A Machzor (or Mahzor) is a Jewish prayerbook for a major holiday. Usually when people talk about a Machzor, they are talking about the prayerbooks for the High Holy Days.
If you are unfamiliar with the Machzor, here’s an introduction: What is a Machzor?
MyJewishLearning.com has a wonderful article, Mahzor Contents: A Guide to the High Holy Days Prayers. I recommend it highly.
I just got an email from Sefaria.org about their new High Holy Day resource: Machzorim (High Holy Day Prayerbook texts.)
If you are unfamiliar with Sefaria, you can read about them here on the blog at Meet Sefaria! You may want to spend a little time playing with the interface – it’s worth the effort.
Also, if you are wondering about the extra day of Jewish holiday (“2nd day of Rosh Hashanah,” etc) Judaism101 has a good explanation of the tradition.
Some other articles on this blog:
A Guide to High Holy Day Greetings
Books to Prepare for the High Holy Days
Food Traditions for Rosh HaShanah
The Hardest Prayer in the Book (Unetaneh Tokef)
Have you found any High Holy Day resources online that you’d like to share? Please do so in the comments!
Thanks for all that you do and La Shana Tova. I am recently returned to synagogue along with my adult daughter. Although I can follow along/sight read the Hebrew, she has no background in Hebrew other than singing the blessings. I am looking for an on-line reform mahzor (for next year) that would allow me to transliterate (using google) Hebrew text where there is no transliteration in the Reform Mahzor. Do you know if anything like this exists? I’m not looking just for ‘free’ resources, I’m willing to buy what I need, I just can’t find it.