Shalom all,
There is something simultaneously awe-inspiring and humbling to rise before the sifrei Torah (our Torah scrolls) on the holiest day of the year. For the past several years, at the end of the Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning) service, we’ve invited everyone to the bimah, to face the open ark. Perhaps you offered a private prayer or a quiet thanks; maybe it was a request for strength or wisdom or health in the coming year; for some, it may have been prayers for forgiveness or hope, integrity or love. Perhaps you just needed a moment of solitude standing before the Torah. There isn’t a right or wrong; it was an opportunity to face the ark on our most awesome and humbling day.
This year, while we are not able to gather as we have in years past, our community will have the opportunity to face the ark on Monday, September 21, at 4457 Third Ave S, Minneapolis 55419, beginning at 10 a.m. This property is across the street from, and owned by, St. Joan of Arc.