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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“When I feel most broken / pulled apart / when every door unhinged / is opened / but feels closed”

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When our hearts ache, may we ascend like the letters of the Torah

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Praise that comes after pain

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How water shapes and impacts our repentance process

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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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