Holidays & Seasons
The months and the festivals as they come round, written while they are on the calendar rather than in the abstract, and never claiming more for a date than the sources do.
Yom Kippur, and the name the Torah writes in the pluralA singular the written text never uses, two goats and a lot, a fast commanded without the word for fasting, and the accuser's 364, checked as honestly as it can be.14 August 2026Rosh Hashanah, and the name the Torah never gives itA day of teruah, a memorial of blasting, the one verse in the twenty-four books that says Rosh Hashanah, and the number 861 checked as honestly as it can be.13 August 2026Elul, and the year 5787Four verses whose initials spell the month, a year number worked plainly, and the horn the Torah never mentions.12 August 2026