Resources for Reflection and Renewal 

    The High Holy Days, and the month of Elul leading up to them, is a time many of us engage in personal preparation for this season of awe, and go in search of readings, experiences, and practices that make us more receptive to the holiness of the season and the possibility of teshuvah, renewal. We've compiled this list of readings, meditations and rituals for those who want to enrich or deepen their High Holy Days experience.

    Many of the resources we've gathered here will be particularly helpful to those who celebrate the High Holy Days at home, joining services remotely thanks to Zoom or watching a livestream. Resources marked with a red asterisk are particularly appropropriate for those observing the holidays  at home,especially the ideas for creating a sacred space in your home. Others show you how to do at home what we usually do together: Tashlich, Rosh Hashanah seders, and activities designed to open us to the possiblity of change and growth. We hope you enjoy them. 

    RESOURCES THAT SPAN THE YAMIM NORAIM (DAYS OF AWE)

    MUSIC! HIGH HOLY DAYS PLAYLISTS

    ​MAKING SPACE FOR OBSERVING THE HIGH HOLY DAYS @HOME

    Many of our members and friends celebrate the High Holy Days from home, joining our community observances online. One way to feel more connected when attending services remotely is to create a sacred space at home, away from where your everyday life take place. Revelation and awe can find us anywhere, of course, but home, amid the dishes and the laundry, is not usually the place we expect to find them. Setting up a bit of sacred space at home can provide a refuge for reflection, questioning, contemplation and awe. Like the rabbis after the destruction of the Temple, we can create small holy spaces wherever we find ourselves, at home or in exile. 

    PRAYER BOOKS, SERVICE BOOKLETS AND SUPPLEMENTS

    ELUL & TESHUVAH

    ROSH HASHANAH

    TASHLICH

    YOM KIPPUR

    HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR HIGH HOLY DAYS 2022/5783