Rabbi Plotkin is honored to have his article appear in the Spring 2009 edition of the CCAR Journal.
Giving Meaning to our Days: Reimagining Un'taneh Tokef
The Article is Rabbi Plotkin's first published article and explores how Reform rabbis have handled discussing the liturgy of the Un'taneh Tokef prayer, the High Holy Day liturgical poem that suggests that every individual's fate is sealed by God on Yom Kippur. It is commonly known by the line, "Who shall live and who shall die..."