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5:30 PM Tot Holiday Service – Join Rabbi Jonathan Roos and Cantor Rebecca Robins to bring in Rosh HaShanah at home. Grab your candles, challah, apples, and honey, (and/ or your bag of goodies from Temple Sinai!) and get ready for a fun and festive welcome to the new year! This service is particularly geared for children through grade 1 and lasts 30 minutes.7:00 PM Virtual Prozdor on Zoom – Join with us in a Zoom meeting, where we can see each other’s faces, wish each other Shanah Tovah, and begin to welcome the holiday with our Temple Sinai community. Bring your candles and kiddush cup as we will chant these opening blessings together before heading into the service.Click to Join. Meeting ID: 982 3916 9970 | Passcode: 200157:20 PM Greetings & “Doors Open”7:30 PM Service Begins (in the Virtual Sanctuary) * – Our full clergy team begins our observance of Rosh Hashanah by leading this erev Rosh Hashanah service. You’ll hear music led by Cantor Laura Croen, Cantor Rebecca Robins and Cantorial Soloist Robyn Helzner, and teaching from Rabbi Diamondstein, Rabbi Goldstein, and Rabbi Roos. This service also includes a new year’s message from our Temple Sinai president, Deborah Lewis.* This service will be using the Gates of Repentance Prayer Book. For the transliteration guide and the order of service to be used with the transliteration guide, please visit the virtual library (link to come).
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9:30 AM Family Service – Join Rabbi Hannah Goldstein and Cantor Rebecca Robins in an active and interactive Rosh HaShanah family service. Be ready to sing, dance, and celebrate with us. This service is particularly designed for elementary school aged children, and lasts 40 minutes. A copy of the liturgy for this service can be found in the virtual library (link to come).
10:00 AM Virtual Sanctuary: “V’Hinei Tov” – Service for a Good New Year (Led by Cantor Laura Croen, Rabbi Jonathan Roos & members) – Creatively engaging with the themes of Rosh HaShanah, this service takes advantage of the opportunities presented by our technology to include leadership by our Temple Sinai clergy as well as members of our congregation. We will use creative liturgy, meditation and the central prayers and melodies of Rosh HaShanah to help participants look to the year ahead with renewed energy in this challenging time. *
10:00 AM Virtual Bet Am Service led by Cantorial Soloist Robyn Helzner, Rabbi Noah Diamondstein, & Rabbi Hannah Goldstein – Join us for a journey through the Rosh HaShanah liturgy. Using the traditional liturgy as a guide for the themes of the day, this service will also include modern reflections, poetry and a mix of classic and contemporary melodies, chanted by Robyn Helzner and accompanied by guitar. *
3:00 PM Family Program: Birthday of the World Party – Join Diane Zimmerman, Liza Fishman, and the TSRS team to celebrate the world’s birthday! Bring a gift for the world, and a special birthday treat if you can. Learn more here and then join us on Zoom. This celebration is designed for elementary school aged children and younger, and lasts 30 minutes.
4:30 PM Teen/Youth Group Tashlich – Come join Temple Sinai teens, Emily, and CR for Tashlich. We’ll reflect on our year together, and spend some time in sacred community. This experience is designed for teens in grades 8-12. Preregistration is encouraged. Learn more and register.
Anytime Tashlich – Use Temple Sinai’s Tashlich service and guide to participate in the ritual of Tashlich, casting off our sins, on your own schedule. This is an opportunity for personal reflection or a chance to participate in this ritual with family and (socially distanced) friends.
* This service will be using the Gates of Repentance Prayer Book. For the transliteration guide and the order of service to be used with the transliteration guide, please visit the virtual library (link to come).
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7:30 PM Kehillat Yom Tov (This service will be streamed on Zoom. Join here.) – Led by Cantorial Soloist Robyn Helzner with participation by congregant volunteers, the service includes traditional elements, modern interpretations, and reflections on Yom Kippur themes in light of current events. This service will be conducted live, in a virtual Zoom meeting format and will include a recording of Rabbi Roos’s sermon. *
7:30 PM Virtual Sanctuary: Kol Nidrei – Usher in Yom Kippur with the haunting melody of Kol Nidrei both sung and played on the cello. Led by much of our clergy team, join us in the virtual sanctuary for this contemplative liturgy. This service will include a sermon by Rabbi Roos. *
* This service will be using the Gates of Repentance Prayer Book
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9:00 AM Tot Holiday Service – Yom Kippur is a day of putting our hearts back together and getting ready for a better year ahead. Join Cantor Robins, Rabbi Roos, Rabbi Goldstein, Perri, and Ali for a morning of story, song, and putting our hearts back together. This service is particularly designed for children age 6 and younger, and lasts 30 minutes.
9:30 AM Family Service – Join Rabbi Noah Diamondstein and Cantor Rebecca Robins in an active and interactive morning of reflection and community on Yom Kippur. Through creative liturgy, traditional prayers, story, and song – join us on a journey of tshuvah. A copy of the liturgy for this service can be found in the virtual library. This service is particularly designed for elementary school aged children, and lasts 45 minutes.
10:00 AM Virtual Sanctuary: Turn and Return: A Service of Teshuva (Led by Cantor Croen, Rabbi Roos & members) – This Yom Kippur morning service uses Maimonides’s four steps of teshuva (turning) alongside the Yom Kippur liturgy to contemplate how we truly make change. At this time of introspection and challenge, this service will help you contemplate where you are in your life, what needs to change, and how you might begin to get there. *
10:00 AM Virtual Bet Am Service (Led by Cantorial Soloist Robyn Helzner, Rabbi Noah Diamondstein, & Rabbi Hannah Goldstein) – Join us for a journey through the Yom Kippur liturgy. Using the traditional liturgy as a guide for the themes of the day, this service will also include modern reflections, poetry and a mix of classic and contemporary melodies, chanted by Robyn Helzner and accompanied by guitar. *
12:15 PM Teen/Youth Discussion: Teshuva from a Distance – Teens in grades 8-12, join CR and Emily and figure out: Just how do we do tshuva when we are only digitally connected? Work with ancient practice and the experience of today to create and engage with a process of repentance for today’s teens. Join via Zoom.
12:15 PM Discussion Groups and Learning. Learn more.
1:30 PM Healing Service – In this moment where our entire world is in need of healing, turn inward to your own healing and the healing of those around you. Sing with us, breathe with us, meditate with us, and hold this moment as a moment for healing; of body, of spirit, or whatever other healing you desire. The liturgy for this service is available in the virtual library. This service lasts about 50 minutes.
3:00 PM Mincha (Afternoon) Service (With Guest Speaker Rabbi Jonah Pesner) – The Torah reading at our Yom Kippur Mincha service calls us to be holy and to pursue justice. Using the Torah reading as our guide, this service will be an opportunity to recommit ourselves to justice in the new year, and reflect upon how we have fallen short. Justice giant, Jonah Dov Pesner, the director of the Religious Action Center and a member of Temple Sinai, will speak about the biblical Jonah, the haftarah traditionally read on Yom Kippur afternoon. This service uses the Afternoon High Holy Day Machzor created by Temple Sinai, as well as the text of the book of Jonah, both available in the virtual library.
4:45 PM Yizkor (Memorial) Service – We come together for Yizkor to remember our loved ones who have died. With Psalms and poetry, we set aside this time for both personal and communal mourning. This service uses the Afternoon High Holy Day Maczhor created by Temple Sinai, available in the virtual library.
5:35 PM Neilah (Concluding) Service – We conclude Yom Kippur with Neilah, as we use every last moment of the day for prayer. Our clergy team shares their hopes for the new year, we will hear the traditional melodies of the season one last time, and we join together for Havdalah. Our service concludes with one final Tekiah Gedolah…one last blast of the shofar. This service uses the Afternoon High Holy Day Machor created by Temple Sinai, available in the virtual library.
7:00 PM Virtual Break Fast (Hosted on Zoom, link to come) – In place of the crowded break fasts of years past, see familiar faces during an informal Zoom gathering to mark the conclusion of the holy days. No lines for food, and no concerns about getting out of the parking lot! BYOB (Bring Your Own Bagel!)
* This service will be using the Gates of Repentance Prayer Book
Prayer Books
We will be using the Gates of Repentance for all services except for the Children/Family, Yom Kippur Healing, and Yom Kippur Afternoon services.
Don’t have a copy? Here are some ways to get it: