Don’t miss this year’s S’lichot service as Rabbi Olivier will not only set the theme of our High Holy Days, but also invite us to take our first step in a three-step journey beyond fears.

S’lichot services will, as always, be free and open to everyone and will also be live-streamed for all on our website, our App, Roku and Apple TV, as well as on our Facebook and YouTube channels.

Enter into the energies of the New Year by stepping into a holy space of transition away from the hurried busy-ness of the world.

Our Rosh HaShanah service is our gateway into the transformative energies of the High Holy Days. We gather in community to step more fully into sacred time, our retreating into the recess of the reflective silence of the soul.

How should we start a New Year? What kind of energies do we want to immerse ourselves into on the first morning of a renewed spiritual cycle? Our sages equate Rosh HaShanah with the first day of Creation in Genesis. What individual life-Creation or personal re-Creation could such a day invite us into as the blasts of the Shofar wake us up to writing ourselves in the Book of Life?

10:30 AM – Morning Service

1 PM – Community Potluck

3 PM – Tashlich (meet at the Sanctuary to walk to Green Lake)

Psalm 118 pleads: “Open for me the gates of righteousness that I may enter and give thanks to the Eternal.” Through our Kol Nidrei service we, too, plead that the gates of our heart be open that we might do the work of forgiveness and healing the Day of At-One-Ment makes available to all of us. That we may be renewed. That we may be whole again.

Yom Kippur will start with a morning service that will include Torah chanting, our favorite High Holy Days songs and prayers, and sharing the Priestly Blessing with one another. Early afternoon will transition to the study of the Book of Jonah, our Yizkor and Neilah services will meet us early evening, and all will be interspersed by three meditation sessions, one of which will be dedicated to healing.

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1. If you wish to watch the stream on your smart tv, the App is available on Roku or we are streaming live on YouTube. If you’d like to use a  large monitor, please use your laptop and an HDMI cable to connect the two. You can click on the arrows in the bottom right-hand corner in order to maximize the screen to full-screen.
2. We will not be streaming the Rosh HaShanah or Yom Kippur services via our YouTube channel in order to respect our registration process and keep participation available exclusively to those who have registered. If you would like to register now for those services, use the buttons above or below to take you to our registration page.
3. You can also read more about how to create a sacred space at home for services by re-reading Rabbi Olivier’s email from before Rosh HaShanah here:
   https://mailchi.mp/betalef/get-the-most-out-of-vitrual-high-holy-days-1328923