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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A poem of release and acceptance

A prayer to be said when a parent feels tried by the job of parenting

A Yom Kippur prayer that mourns those lost in the Holocaust

A variety of candle lighting blessings, traditional and modern, for holidays

A possible comfort for one who shouldn’t fast due to health

Some find the Yom Kippur liturgy, with its litany of sins, onerous, particularly for women. This text serves as a counterpoint to the traditional Al Het (confession) affirming our goodness alongside our sins.

A prayer based on traditional texts but which addresses God in feminine and gender-neutral imagery

A prayer based on traditional texts which address God as Shekhinah

Adds biblical women to the list of biblical men in this traditional prayer

An inclusive version of this traditional Selikhot (penitential) prayer

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