High Holy Days 2023/5784
We look forward to celebrating this beautiful season of renewal with all of you! As always, we are pleased to offer a diversity of experiences, from traditional Reconstructionist worship services to those with a modern, intimate flare.
How are services being offered this year?
We are pleased to be able to welcome everyone in-person again this year. And we have online options too!
Any Jew in search of a community for the High Holy Days is invited to join us in-person, on Zoom, or via livestreams, at no cost.
Whether you're a year-round Kol HaLev member, you've shared a previous holiday season or virtual Shabbat with us, you're an occasional guest, or you're brand new and want to learn more about the Kol HaLev experience, you're most welcome to join us, free of charge.
Registration is required, however, so that we can ensure our spaces, both physical and virtual, are properly provisioned and we can accommodate everyone's needs for connection and safety.
In order to keep the entire community safe, we will all be following some important updated health protocols when together, for which we ask your cooperation.
Everything you need to know to register is downloadable from this website.
Members will receive a registration packet by the mail AND email the last week of August; others who have attended our High Holy Days in the recent past will also be receiving registration information by email, if we have your email address.)
Make a Holiday Donation!
The High Holy Days is a traditional time for members to honor the memory of loved ones, and to show appreciation for the people and community that make life richer. If you are so moved, please consider making a contribution to support Kol HaLev and help us continue to offer these special opportunities for connection and meaning. We also offer the opportunity to donate in service of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world).
High Holy Days At-A-Glance (download as a pdf)
Resources to enrich your holiday observance (and beyond!)
Looking for readings, meditations, music or rituals to deepen your High Holy Days experience? Check out our wonderful trove of self-guided resources for renewal and reflection. You can also:
- Explore the Reconstructionist High Holy Days mahzor (prayer book) online! You can find a free digital version of Mahzor Leyamim Nora’im: Prayerbook for the Days of Awe on the Reconstructing Judaism website. Choose the entire mahzor, or just the sections you want for the services you'll attend (or for your own study and prayer). There are many other wonderful High Holy Days supplemental readings and resources available on that webpage as well!
- Learn about our Yom Kippur Social Justice Speaker and this year's High Holy Days Tikkun Olam Project
- Watch some of Rabbi Steve's past High Holy Days sermons
