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    High Holy Days @Home

    Many of our members and friends celebrate the High Holy Days from home. You may be joining our community observances online, in the sacred space we create together, from your personal space where your everyday lives 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.

    Just as we'll make space in our days for services, singing and fasting over the coming 10 Days of Awe, we can make space in our homes for reflection, questioning, contemplation and awe. There's an obvious parallel here to the situation faced by the rabbis after the destruction of the Temple – and we can borrow their solution of creating small holy spaces wherever we find ourselves, at home and in exile.

    The resources we've gathered here all relate to the idea of High Holy Days at home. There are resources for creating a literal space in your home where you can be (with your computer) while you're tapped into our sacred space online. 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. 

    Hineini for Remote Davening, Cantor Vera and Rabbi Rachel

     

    PREPARING FOR YOM KIPPUR

    • Create a Sacred Space in your home for online services by Lila Hanft
    • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives by Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman
    • Avinu Malkeinu for This Time by Sabrina Sojourner
    • Self-Guided Yom Kippuir/Teshuvah Ritual (Haggadot.com)
     
     

    TASHLICH

    • Transformative at-home Tashlich from Congregation Tchiyah in Detroit
    • Do It Yourself Tashlich -- a list of several ideas for the pandemic years and beyond
    • Tashlich Atlas – cast a short text (virtually) into Lake Erie or any body of water
    • STREAM– listen to this 10-minute self-guided audio tashlich meditation from Deanna Neil; use it as a spoken guide for your own physical ritual, or a quiet mental exercise in how to Let Things Go
    • Tashlich – A Guided Video Meditation -- Join Rabbi Molly Kane and Singer/Songwriter Michelle Citrin as they guide you through the ritual of Tashlich
    • Alternative Tashlich: Awareness of injustice and inequality by Emily Bass
     
     

    MUSIC! COLLABORATIVE HIGH HOLY DAYS PLAYLISTS

    • Youtube: On Kol HaLev's YouTube channel!
      • Rosh Hashanah 2020/5782 playlist 
    • Spotify: Collaborate by adding your own picks!
      • Kol HaLev's High Holy Days Traditional, Classics & Updates playlist
      • Kol HaLev Secular Tunes on High Holy Days Themes playlist   
     

    RESOURCES THAT SPAN THE YAMIM NORAIM (DAYS OF AWE)

    • Seeker Season: A HHD Guidebook For The Curious & Courageous (Haggadot.com)
    • Guide to the High Holy Days from Interfaithfamily.com
    • A Prayer for the New Year (5781) by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (Opensiddur.org)
    • Prayer for Country - Read by Ruth Bader Ginsburg z"l Originally Recorded on October 3rd, 2013 At Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland
     

    PRAYER BOOKS, SERVICE BOOKLETS AND SUPPLEMENTS

    • Free digital version of Mahzor Leyamim Nora’im: Prayerbook for the Days of Awe
      Choose the entire mahzor, or just the sections you want for the services you'll attend (or for your own study and prayer).
    • Don't want to use the mahzor?  About 24 hours before each service, you'll be able to download shorter service booklets and supplements here. Each service booklet contains all you'll need for that service. (For those of you using your own hardbound machzor or the digital version, service leaders will be providing page numbers as each service progresses.)
     

    RABBI STEVE'S HIGH HOLY DAYS SERMONS

    2020 and 2021

    2022: Coming soon!

     

     

     

     

     


     

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