High Holy Days 5786

Planted like a tree

Beside Divided Waters

Registration Required. In person and in the High Holy Day Zoom Room.

9am: Family Service & Learning

This offering is free, but you must register by clicking here.

We invite families with children to join Nitzanim to welcome the new year with song, prayer, and play, led by Reb Mia, Rabbi Irwin, and friends.

Following the service, there will be art and activities for kids; parents and kids are also invited to join the congregation for the morning service (select that option in your registraiton).

For information on enrolling in Nitzanim for the rest of the year, click here.

10:15am: Morning Service and Shofar Blasts

With the guidance of Reb Irwin and our spiritual leadership and musical teams, we continue leaning into the sacredness of this day and the new year. This morning service includes High Holy Day prayers, the awe-inspiring blasts of the shofar, and lively engagement with Torah.

1:30pm: Picnic Lunch & Tashlikh

When we finish the morning service, stick around to picnic with us in the Courtyard. Bring your own brown-bag lunch. We will supplement with challah and beverages and apples and honey!

After lunch we will walk together to Cotati Creek for our ritual of tashlikh, led by Leiah Bowden, to let go of attachments that no longer serve us.

3:00-ish: A Tree’s Hope

In person only, following Tashlikh.

Join Cyndi Norwitz and Reb Irwin for a discussion of the remarkable Chapter 14 of the Book of Job, in which our human frailty is compared to and contrasted with the experience of the tree which, even after it is cut down, has hope of sending forth new sprouts. What does this text have to say to us in our time and place?