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High Holidays

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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.

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“Hide them / beneath the cover of Your wings, forever, / And let their souls be bound up with ours…”
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​Rabbi Maurice Harris, Associate Director for Thriving Communities and Israel Affairs Specialist, shares a powerful message for this moment.
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“Especially on Yom Kippur — we are singing for our lives in community.”
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“May we enrich our lives, our relationships, and our days for higher good, for Tikkun Olam, and healing…”
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“So now You’re headed out-of-town, like some will-o’-the-wisp / to locate some new folks, perhaps, and begin In the beginning, all over again…”
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Rabbi Daria Jacobs-Velde shares a timely teaching for the High Holidays.
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“Together we will recite / the only prayer this New Year; / the prayer home.”
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“What else can we do/Expect hold to the promise / That we will be met / Beyond the gates, / In the field, / By love?”
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“Return is always possible.”
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“…help us have mercy on ourselves; and renew our lives so that we may build on the work we have begun.”
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