2023/5784 High Holy Days Worship Schedule

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2023/5784 High Holy Days Worship Schedule

We look forward to gathering with our community in the Gitlin Sanctuary for High Holy Days services. e-Tickets are required for all family members and guests. Please present your e-ticket email on your phone or print it out to present to our greeters when you enter the synagogue.

Selichot - Saturday, September 9

Dinner & Program, 7pm
- Program led by Rabbi Lefkowitz - "Ashamnu: Why Us? A Closer Look at the Vidui" (Details & RSVP by 9/5) in-person only
Worship Service, 8pm

Erev Rosh Hashanah - Friday, September 15

Worship Service, 8pm (Dessert reception to follow.) Watch Rabbi Bonder's Sermon

Rosh Hashanah - Saturday, September 16

Early Worship Service, 9am (open to all ages) Watch Rabbi Marx's Sermon
Youth Service, 9am (K-4th grade, must pre-register, in-person only)
Late Worship Service, 12:30pm (open to adults & children in 5th grade & up),
Tashlich, 11:30am, 2:30pm & 4pm (outside by the pond)
Family Worship Service, 3pm (open to all ages)
Tot Worship Service, 3pm. (open to all ages, in-person only)

Rosh Hashanah Day 2 - Sunday, September 17

Worship Service, 10am Watch Rabbi Lefkowitz's Sermon

Kol Nidre - Sunday, September 24

Worship Service, 8pm

Yom Kippur - Monday, September 25

Early Worship Service, 9am (open to all ages)
Youth Service, 9am (open to children K-4th grade, must pre-register, in-person only)
Late Worship Service, 12pm (open to adults & children in 5th grade & up)
Study Sessions in-person only (Library)
- 11:30am | The Day is Short and the Work is Great: Navigating the Struggles of Daily Life, taught by Aaron Nielsenshultz
  - Modern life is full of advice about living with intention and meaning, and focusing on joy and gratitude. Let’s be frank, though; sometimes life can be hard. What are we to make of these difficult moments? Is life truly, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “…nasty, brutish, and short”? Let’s look together at how the Hebrew language helps us understand the hard times and how text can help illuminate the way through the darkness.
- 1pm | How Seriously Should We Take God, taught by Rabbi Elliot Strom
  - The Ten Days of Repentance (aseret yamei ha-t’shuvah) between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are considered crucial for our fate for the new year. In our liturgy, we are constantly reminded that God, during these days, has a giant volume laid out before God. In it, God will have to inscribe us – and then “seal” us – in this book for blessing or curse, for life or death. This, surely, is a very daunting image. Where does this concept come from? How literally should we take it? And is our fate truly in our own hands during this awesome time?
- 2:45pm | Rereading The Sunflower: What If I Can't Forgive You, taught by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman
  - Yom Kippur is based on a theology of a forgiving God. It also challenges us to forgive one another. But what if someone has hurt you so badly, you can’t forgive them? Join us for this special study session based on the 1998 classic collection of essays on forgiveness, its possibilities and limits.
Family Worship Service, 2:45pm (open to all ages)
Tot Worship Service, 2:45pm (open to all ages, in-person only)
Afternoon, Yizkor & Neilah, 4pm
Break to Fast, 6:15pm (approx.)