High Holy Days Schedule 5785 (2024)

Service Audience – While all are welcome to all services, services listed as “Multigenerational” are designed for everyone, “Youth” services are designed for elementary-aged children and younger, and “All Ages” are adult focused but content is engaging and appropriate for older elementary and middle schoolers. Children are invited to borrow a book from our library to look at during services. “Adult” programming involves more complex thought and discussion.

Online service registration: https://templebethor.org/high-holy-days/hhd-online

If you would prefer to view, download, or print the “grid” style schedule, please click here.

Jewish "Soul" Music for the High Holy Days (Sunday, September 22, 10:00-11:30am)

Spiritual Preparation for the High Holy Days with Cantor Ellen Dreskin (online only)

Online Only. Zoom: tinyurl.com/elulprogram2024 (Meeting ID: 836 1119 1319, Passcode: 735095)

Who on earth do I think I am, and what in Heaven’s name do I think I’m doing here? Come explore and reflect on the ways in which our texts, melodies, and metaphors might help us to prepare for and deepen our experience of the High Holy Days and the year ahead.

Adult
S'lichot Service (Saturday, September 28, 7:30pm oneg, followed by service 8:15-9:15pm)
Teiglach Baking (Sunday, September 29, 10:30am-12:30pm)

with TBO Member Carolyn Wexler

Online only. Please register in advance so we can provide the recipe. No closing date to register. tinyurl.com/teiglachwithcarolyn

Bake for the new year in your very own kitchen via Zoom! Teiglach is a honey boiled pastry popular with Lithuanian Jews and a recipe enjoyed by Carolyn’s grandparents from neighboring Russia. The recipe will be supplied and we’ll bake together and schmooze as we make delicious honey drenched teiglach for a sweet new year.

Multigenerational
Erev Rosh HaShanah (Wednesday, October 2, 7:30-8:45pm)

with Rabbi Kort and Steven Chaitman

In person at TBO and streamed online

We will announce and welcome the new year in-person as a TBO community. This will be a traditional evening service with some contemporary elements. Our President, Wanda Bresnick will share remarks and Rabbi Kort will offer a sermon: Blessings in the Midst of Brokenness.

All Ages. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend.
Rosh HaShanah: A New Year's Festival (Thursday, October 3, 10:00am - 3:00pm)

With Rabbi Kort, Steven Chaitman – Music Leader, and Youth Programming with Stefanie Somers

In person at an offsite outdoor location (provided when registration processed) and streamed online (only the 10:30 am Rosh Hashanah service will be streamed). Must be registered to attend.

Engaging opportunities for all ages in an accessible outdoor setting. The morning service will be contemporary
in nature with traditional elements. The Torah reading will be the Akedah: the Binding of Isaac. Sermon: Rebuilding After Destruction: The Jewish Talent for Re-Invention.

Bring your own water bottle, lawn chairs, blankets, umbrellas for lawn seating, sunscreen, hats, and raingear as required. Lunch available for preorder, or bring your own.

10:00-10:30 Arrive/Shmooze
10:00-12:00 Youth Programming
10:30-12:00 Morning Service
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:30-1:45 Tashlich at the lake
2:00-3:00 pm Afternoon Options: Singing with Steven, Apple Cider Tasting, Hike around the Lake, Storytime with Rabbi Kort, Teen Activity led by our BOTY advisor Sam Fuchs
3:00 pm Closing Circle & Cupcakes

Maps available
Casual Attire
Multigenerational
Creative Shabbat Shuva Service (Saturday, October 5, 10:00-11:30am)

with Rabbi Kort and Rabbi CB Souther. In person at TBO and streamed online.

Our Shabbat Shuva service will offer a creative and prayerful space to engage with the themes of our High Holy Days. This service will include contemporary poetry, music, meditation and an optional hands-on creative practice. This service will have some traditional prayers including an opportunity to remember loved ones with our Kaddish – mourner’s prayer. All ages.
Cemetery Memorial Service (Sunday, October 6, 2:00pm)

In person only, at the GAR Cemetery, 8601 Riverview Rd, Snohomish.
No pre-registration needed to attend

This peaceful outdoor service of remembrance is appropriate for anyone of any age who is comfortable with a quieter service of reflection, poetry and prayers. You do not have to have a loved one buried in this cemetery or have suffered a recent loss. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. All Ages.
Family Erev Yom Kippur Service (Friday, October 11, 4:30-5:15pm)

with Rabbi Kort, Steven Chaitman, and violinist Meghan Lefrancois-Hanson (TBO member).
In person only at TBO. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend.

This special service geared towards families with elementary age kids and younger will begin with a blast from the shofar and include special High Holy Day songs, including Kol Nidrei played on violin, and a story sermon. Youth.
Erev Yom Kippur Service (Friday, October 11, 7:30-9:00pm)

with Rabbi Kort, Steven Chaitman, and cellist Rebekah Hood-Sava from the Pacifica Chamber Orchestra.
In person at TBO and streamed online. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend in person.

Kol Nidrei will be a traditional service with some contemporary elements. Jewish adults are encouraged to wear a tallit (prayer shawl) at this service. It is also a tradition to wear white. Sermon: Inherited Trauma & Inherited Resilience.
Yom Kippur Morning Service (Saturday, October 12, 10:00-12:30pm)

with Rabbi Kort and Steven Chaitman. In person at TBO and streamed online. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend in person.

Our Yom Kippur morning service will be traditional with some contemporary elements. In addition to Rabbi Kort’s leadership, members of our TBO community will introduce prayers to help weave the diversity of our TBO community
into our service. Sermon: The Gifts of Our Community. All ages.
Yom Kippur Adult Learning (Saturday, October 12, 1:00-2:00pm)

with Rabbi David Fine. In person only at TBO. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend.

Hope – the Jewish Superfood
It is no accident that the Israeli national anthem is HaTikvah – the hope. Let’s discuss how Jews and Jewish history have leaned into hope rather than pessimism and despair. Adult.
Yom Kippur Afternoon Creative Healing Service (Saturday, October 12, 2:30-3:30pm)

with Rabbi Kort and Steven Chaitman. In person at TBO and streamed online. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend in person.

There is an immense amount of brokenness and uncertainty we experience in our personal lives and the larger world. This service will focus on themes of comfort and healing through contemporary poetry and music in addition to traditional Jewish healing resources. Adult
Yom Kippur Yizkor Service (Saturday, October 12, 4:00-5:00pm)
Yom Kippur Concluding Service (Saturday, October 12, 5:00-6:15pm)

with Rabbi Kort and Steven Chaitman. In person at TBO and streamed online. Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend.

Our N’ilah service will be traditional with some contemporary elements. It will include time for individuals to come up to the open ark, recitation of Avinu Malkeinu (which is customary to omit until N’ilah when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat). We will conclude with shofar and Havdalah. Multigenerational
Sukkot Membership Dinner and Music Under the Stars (Friday, October 18, 6:00pm)
Simchat Torah Celebration (Thursday, October 24, 7:00pm)