The Chief Rabbi’s eagerly-awaited new Rosh Hashanah machzor should be reaching the shops within a week or two.

It is published by Koren, who have already produced a version of his (green) Singer’s siddur for the international market.

It should be followed by a new Yom Kippur machzor next year and the complete festival set by the time he leaves office in 2013.

But I also hear that the Chief Rabbi is working on a new edition of the Chumash, which will supersede the Hertz Chumash of more than 70 years ago. Like the Hertz, it will come out first in individual books.