Welcome to week four of Temple Aliyah's Elul Celebration: Prelude to the High Holidays. We are now four days away from Rosh Hashanah, and households are abuzz with preparations. We hope you will use this information to find sweetness and meaning for your new normal. To all of our family, friends, neighbors, and the community-at-large, we hope that Rosh Hashanah 5781 is joyful and filled with happiness. Wishing you peace at Rosh Hashanah and always.
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THIS WEEK AT TEMPLE ALIYAH |
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Come To "Reflect, Recognize, and Resist Racial Privilege: A Discussion on Race During a Time of Repentance"
Tonight 8:00 pm!
Join Melissa Patrick, a black Jewish woman, for a candid conversation with Temple President Arlene Bryer, a Caucasian Jewish woman, about racial and ethnic identities and Judaism. This discussion is purposefully scheduled to take place during our High Holidays, to reflect on ourselves as Jews in a racially unjust world. Click here to view the flyer and learn more about the event. Click here to read a helpful article on the intersection of Judaism, privilege and racism before the discussion.
Join us via Zoom here using the regular Temple Aliyah Zoom password.
Sign Up For In-Person, Socially Distanced Tashlich – Space Limited and Registration Required!
Hard Deadline Tomorrow Wednesday, September 16
To participate in this socially distanced service at Walker Pond on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, click here. To maintain the safety of all, there are three scheduled services, each with a limited capacity, at 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm, and 5:00 pm. Feel free to perform your own Tashlich with the Tashlich service included in your High Holiday Survival Kit and available here.
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(e)Motion: A Creative-Movement Workshop
for the New Year
Thursday, September 17 7:00-7:45PM
During this time of year, we greet one another with a “Shanah Tovah.” Yet, how do we embody that within ourselves? Join us for an (e)Motion workshop led by Movement & More founder, Halle Katz. Fun fact: An (e)Motion workshop is not just for dancers...it is a 45-minute, virtual, interactive experience crafted for all ages and bodies to fuel creativity. This particular class will feature guided movement and mindfulness activities centered around rejuvenation. All you need is a little space to move and a pen in hand. Come play and see what it's all about! [Meeting ID: 822 7106 5189]
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JEWELS OF ELUL
(Inspirational Words from Our Professionals)
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A High Holiday Message from Cantor Jamie Gloth.
(video time 3:33)
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A Message from David Eisenberg:
Israel Bonds Appeal
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Mark your calendar NOW!
A Papercutting Workshop with Jeanette Kuvin Oren in Memory Of Jillian Segal, z”l.
Tuesday, September 22, 7:45 pm.
Be a part of the inauguration of the Jillian Segal Memorial Fund at Temple Aliyah, which will support creative programming at Temple Aliyah. In this one-hour free zoom class you will tour Jeanette Kuvin Oren's Judaic Art studio, and create a papercut work of art. Appropriate for any age person who is comfortable with a sharp knife (not young children). Only 5 basic supplies needed.
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Journal Challenge, Point of Reflection. On these Yamim Nora'im, Days of Awe, we reflect on the past in order to rewrite our future. During times of uncertainty it is often difficult to think about our future selves. Take a moment to think about a time in the coming year to which you are looking forward. How do you plan to be fully present in that/those precious moment/s? Perhaps turn this thought into a journal entry....
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Apples & Honey
by Joan Holub
Read by Shira Cooperman
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Setting Our
Rosh Hashanah Table
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Just as you accessorize for a special occasion, so should you dress your table. A Kiddush cup from a great-grandfather, silverware from your parents, and candlestick holders from your bat mitzvah, these are the touchstones that can make a holiday meal complete. Then add flowers, wine, and family members (perhaps on zoom) and you are set. |
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Let's Cook for Rosh Hashanah
Check out our Temple professionals' recipes; a yummy dessert from our new Temple maintenance engineer, Steve Boyd, and a tantalizing dish from the grandma of Kayla Reisman, the Temple's Director of Congregational Learning and Engagement.
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“On Yom Kippur”:
Yehuda Amichai’s Poetic Meditation
by Harvey Shapiro
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Let the Music Speak!
(A High Holiday Playlist for Easy Listening)
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Untaneh Tokef by Yair Rosenblum and sung by Zamir Chorale of Boston
Veye’etayu - Kehillat Hadar
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The Maccabeats - Bashana Haba'a - Rosh Hashanah
(video time 2:41)
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Schedule of Services
For the schedule for all services and programming, as well as links, look midweek for the Temple Aliyah Guide to High Holiday Services and Programming on our secure webpage, which can be found here.
For the security of all of us, we ask that you share this link only with those whom you trust.
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Zoom Gallery
A Zoom Gallery is a way that we can all see one another. To join, go onto Zoom during the service with a link and time we will provide you in the Guide. The screens of those in the Zoom Gallery will be scrolled on Livestream. You will be seen but not heard. For the times of all Zoom Gallery opportunities, go to our webpage here.
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Bring Family and Friends to High Holiday Services.
You can have a Zoom party! (See here on how to create a Zoom Party). Although there is no charge for tickets this year, we appreciate donations from non-members to help defray the costs of producing virtual services. For guest information click here.
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Forgot to Pick Up A Mahzor?
To make arrangements to borrow a Mahzor from the synagogue, contact Melissa Rudman at [email protected]. We will not be screen sharing the text so we highly recommend you make sure to have a Mahzor. A Mahzor can also be downloaded for a nominal charge here.
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Breakout Discussion Rooms Rosh Hashanah Day 2
After the Rabbi delivers his sermon on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, he will ask you to go onto Zoom with a link that will be available in the Guide. You will automatically and randomly be transferred to a discussion group with a professionally trained leader. You will be able to watch the remainder of the service from Zoom. The Rabbi will deliver his sermon on the first day without breakout rooms.
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In Case You Missed It - Take a Moment to Read:
by Rabbi Carl M. Perkins
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Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Meditation.
For those seeking a different way of connecting spiritually on the High Holidays, we will be offering a meditation service on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. We will gather at 8:15-9:00 am on the morning of the second day of Rosh Hashanah (Sunday, September 20th) and participants may then rejoin the Zoom session for the Torah service. We welcome anyone with an interest in meditation service to join us. Please contact Naomi Litrownik at [email protected] for Zoom details.
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Did You Catch Rabbi Perkins'
Compelling Video on Masorti?
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Order Your Lulav and Etrog for Sukkot!
Orders due by Thursday, September 24.
Please send a check in the amount of $45, made payable to Temple Aliyah, to Marie in the synagogue office. Write "lulav and etrog" on the envelope.
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People frequently throw bread into bodies of water to represent the casting away of their sins
Known as tashlich, this custom is typically performed on the first day of Rosh Hashanah (or on the second day if the first is Shabbat) to represent the casting off of a person's sins as they head into the new year. In some communities, this is done with the contents of a person's pockets instead.
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Rosh Hashanah liturgy has inspired at least two rock songs
Avinu Malkeinu, the prayer that means “Our Father, Our King,” inspired Mogwai, a Scottish post-rock-trio, to write a 20-minute epic song “My Father, My King.” The song, which borrows the prayer’s traditional melody, is alternately soft and beautiful and loud and raging. More famously, Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire” draws on the Unetanah Tokef, which many consider the most important prayer in the High Holiday liturgy.
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Candle Lighting Information: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 6:30 PM; Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 7:29 PM; Sunday, September 20, 2020 Havdalah at 7:27 PM
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Send questions or comments about this newsletter or the High Holidays to: [email protected]
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Find previous editions of the Elul Celebrations Newsletter on
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