Friday, September 18: Erev Rosh Hashanah
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service |
7:30 pm | Ma’Ariv |
Thank you for joining Kehillah for High Holy Days this year! We look forward to having you. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all services and programs will be offered virtually. We have a full schedule of programs for the weekends of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which you can view below.
We are offering all members to join services via Zoom. We will have 4 options for members: the main service, the lobby for casual socializing, children’s services, and a variety of accompanying parallel programs. The links to all Zoom meetings are below and the password for all meetings is on your High Holy Days brochure.
We are offering all others to join our main services via public livestream. The links to all livestreams are also listed below.
You can also read our High Holy Days brochure, access our Machzorim, and view other resources including information about the Yom Kippur Food Drive on this page.
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service |
7:30 pm | Ma’Ariv |
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service | Time | Parallel Programs | Time | Lobby | Time | Children’s Services |
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9:00-9:30 am | Pzukei d’zimra | 9:00-9:45 am | Body & Soul | 9:00-9:30 am | Lobby | 9:30-10:00 am | Tot Service |
9:30- 10:30 am | Shacharit | 9:45-10:30 am | Renewal & Remembrance | 9:30- 10:30 am | Lobby | 10:00-10:30 am | 1st-4th grade Service |
10:30-10:45 am | Rabbi’s D’var | ||||||
10:45-12:30 | Torah Service and concluding prayers | ||||||
11:45 am-12:30 pm | Torah Study | 12:15-1:00 pm | Lobby | 11:45-12:30 | 5-7th grade Service |
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service |
9:30 – 10:30 am | Special brief, interactive service |
10:45 – 12:15 pm | Torah Service Shofar blowing |
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service |
6:30 pm | Ma’Ariv |
The password for all Zoom services is on your High Holy Days Brochure!
Time | Main Service | Time | Parallel Programs | Time | Lobby | Time | Children’s Services |
https://us02web.zoom.us | https://us02web.zoom.us | https://us02web.zoom.us | https://us02web.zoom.us | ||||
9:00-9:30 am | Pzukei d’zimra | 9:00-9:45 am | Vulnerability and Self-Compassion | 9:00-9:30 am | Lobby | 9:30-10:00 am | Tot Service |
9:30- 10:30 am | Shacharit | 9:45-10:30 am | Contaminating and Purifying | 9:30- 10:30 am | Lobby | 10:00-10:30 am | 1st-4th grade Service |
10:30-11:45 am | Torah Service | ||||||
11:45-12:00 pm | Rabbi’s D’var | ||||||
12:00-1:00 pm | Yizkor & Concluding Prayers | 12:15-1:00 pm | Lobby | 11:45-12:30 pm | 5-7th grade Service | ||
4:30-6:00 pm | Martyrology/Mincha & the Book of Jonah | 4:30-5:15 pm | The Temple as Fallen Monument | 4:30-6:00 pm | Lobby | ||
6:30-7:30 pm | Neilah, Final Shofar Blast & Havdallah |
The Main Services for all of our High Holy Days observances will be available for public (non-member) viewing via Youtube Live. Below is the full schedule of all Main Services via livestream for non-members.
Join us for meditation and gentle yoga to help settle our minds and open
us to gratitude and blessing.
Using our liturgy and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost,
Marge Piercy and others, we’ll explore what it means to seek renewal and
regeneration on these sacred days.
Together we’ll reflect on two key moments in the narrative of Genesis 21 — God
“taking note” of Sarah, and Abraham and Sarah’s casting out of Hagar. What do
these pivotal events teach us about the world of our ancestors, and about us?
In this time of self-reflection, we are aware of our vulnerability and the need to not just forgive each other but ourselves as well. Join us as we let go of the stress held in our bodies, and then turn inward for self-compassion.
What can Yom Kippur teach us about demonizing and decontaminating others? How is COVID-19 related to controversies over people who have migrated here? What does Yom Kippur tell us about dehumanization and decontamination?
Witnessing the fall of the Temple the ancient rabbis rewrote history and demanded our penance, personally and collectively. What does the Avodah liturgy (the re-enactment of the High Priests’ Yom Kippur rituals of atonement) teach us about truth, reconciliation, and reparations?
You are welcome to download or print the following Machzorim in preparation for services.
Sunday, September 20th at 4:00 pm
Come join this beautiful ritual of tossing breadcrumbs/fish food into moving water to symbolize releasing sins and purifying our souls for the New Year. For Kehillah members, we’ll have a few outdoor sites in Orange and Durham Counties for gathering, keeping our numbers to a maximum of 25 at each location. Masks and social distancing required. You’ll receive an e-mail to sign up in advance. For a self-guided ritual, click here.
The upcoming High Holidays will be unlike any most of us have known. We have woken up to our deep interconnection to all people and our own fragility. We have seen more clearly the deep injustice of systems and power structures in our country. We have heard voices pleading for life. Perhaps we are awake in a way we have not been before. How can we maintain and even deepen this awareness as we enter a new year?
The Shofar Project is a free program open to people of all backgrounds who want to make this a year of continued awakening, responsiveness, renewal, and transformation. It takes place during the Hebrew month of Elul, the month preceding the Jewish High Holy Days, a traditional period for intensive spiritual reflection, introspection, and moral accounting (August 21 – September 18, 2020).
*Please note that the time of our first parallel program on Rosh Hashanah Day 1 is listed wrong in the brochure. Body & Soul will be from 9:00 – 9:45 am.