High Holy Days 5785
Untying our Tangles
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.
9:30 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, Lia Goldman-Miller, Dan Foster, Alice Pennes, Lauren Broersma-Grossman, Bucky Brynjegard-Bialik, and Eliz McCoy and other members of the Nitzanim faculty.
Families are invited to afterward to join the congregation for our Shofar Service.
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, the awe-inspiring blasts of the shofar, and a gentle look at the traditional Rosh Hashanah Torah reading of the Binding of Isaac, inviting thought about all the tangles that brought these figures into a shared crisis, and what was needed for them to unbind themselves.
1:00 PM Picnic Lunch
When we finish the morning service, stick around to picnic with us. You bring your own brown-bag lunch. We will supplement with challah and beverages and apples and honey! Outdoors in the Ner Shalom Courtyard.
2:00 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.
3:00 pm: Rosh Hashanah Learning: The Binder, The Bound, and the Altar
Come back from Tashlikh and sit with Reb Irwin and Doron Hovav in the shade to sink into a beautiful piyyut by 12th Century Moroccan Rabbi Yehudah ibn Abbas. This poem, Et Sha’arei Ratzaon, retells the story of the binding of Isaac, adding spiritual dimensions to it verse by verse. It is one more chance for us to sweeten the new year together with shared study and poetic delight.