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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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We are all together walking home, on the road of teshuva

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A full ritual to help you practice atonement and cleansing going into Yom Kippur

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Intentions, blessings, and poems to read upon immersing in the mikveh before Rosh Hashanah

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A poem about what the blast of the shofar does to bring us out of past and present

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The El Maley Rakhamim prayer reconstructed to honor the lives lost to racial violence

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Shofar kavannot in response to travel ban

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An original, dramatic Avodah service for Yom Kippur

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A new version of the traditional confession prayer

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A Yom Kippur hymn loosely based on Kol Nidre

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