High Holidays

The High Holidays, which comprise Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are the holiest dates on the Jewish calendar. A time to take stock of our live, seek forgiveness, and start fresh, this season invites us to reflect on what matters most to us and to return to our deepest selves.

Latest Rituals

Belleville

“On Kol Nidre / I went to daven in / Stadttempel, / The sole survivor, / Of the pogroms of death.”

antisemitism, God, kol nidre, prayer

TASHLIKH: Reluctant to Leave

“There’s so much to ponder / More soul-cloth to launder / Lessons the waters will teach…”

rosh hashanah, tashlikh

Here in the Diaspora

“Surely, our fate’s been sealed by now / and we’ve seen–for good and ill–“

Al Heyt, diaspora, fasting, prayer, yom kippur

Psalm 23.1: Let Us Seek Renewal These Days of Awe

“Through unknown length of days, we renew our trust in You.”

Days of Awe, psalms, soul, Yamim Noraim

Yom Kippur

“Let none be taken by war, by flood, by famine, by fire…”

Book of Life, yom kippur

Vidui

“each time I deny I own it— I own it”

teshuvah, vidui, yom kippur

Learning Guide and Reflective Practice for the Days of Awe

This new packet explores liturgical, temporal, and internal themes of the High Holidays.

High Holidays, rosh hashanah, yom kippur

Kol Nidre

“Now, in this moment, / the veil shimmers into translucence / and the fiction of our separation / hesitates and wavers.”

kol nidre, yom kippur

The King is in the Field

“I walk further into the field, and in the distance, I glimpse You, / Standing on the horizon, your arms open to greet me…”

birds, Divine, Elul, garden, nature, prayer

Deeper

“We beseeched the beings of wind and earth and air and G-d…”