High Holy Days 2023: Masking and Unmasking

9:15 am: Family Service and Learning

This offering is free, but you must register by clicking here.

We invite families with children to join Nitzanim to welcome the new year with song, prayer, and play, led by Reb Mia, Rabbi Irwin, and other members of the Nitzanim faculty.

Families are invited to afterward to join the congregation for “Storahtelling” – a theatrical, participatory presentation of the Torah portion – and then for our Shofar Service.

9:15 am: Morning Meditation

In-Person Only. Registration required. Those registered for the in-person morning service may also join Leiah on site.

Join us as Leiah Bowden leads us into a state of physical and spiritual wakefulness to welcome the New Year and the sacred everyday.

10:15 am: Morning Service and Shofar Blasts

Registration Required. In person and in the High Holy Day Zoom Room.

With the guidance of Reb Irwin and our spiritual leadership and musical teams, we continue leaning into the sacredness of this day and the new year. This morning service includes High Holy Day prayers, a lively Torah reading about Hagar and her names, and hearing the awe-inspiring blasts of the shofar.

1:00 PM Picnic Lunch

Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy it in community in the Ner Shalom Courtyard. Also expect wine, coffee, challah, apples, and honey?

3:00 pm: Tashlikh in Cotati

Free and open to all. In person only

Meet us at Ner Shalom and we will stroll together to a spot on Cotati Creek to perform our ancient tashlikh ritual of letting go of what no longer serves us.