High Holy Days Schedule 5783 (2022)
Accessing Classes and Services
We will be using Zoom Meeting for more intimate or interactive classes and services, and Zoom Webinar for larger groups and services.
Service Audience – While all are welcome to all services, “Multi-Generational” services are designed for everyone, “Youth” services are designed for early elementary-aged children and younger, and “All Ages” are adult focused but content is engaging and appropriate for older elementary and middle schoolers. High Holy Day BINGO sheets will be available for our Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidrei, and Yom Kippur services to help students following along with the service. Children are invited to borrow a book from our library to look at during services. “Adult” programming involves more complex thought and discussion.
Member registration: https://templebethor.org/hhd-member-form/
Non-member registration: https://templebethor.org/hhd5783-nonmember-form/
Registration for supplemental programming: https://templebethor.org/high-holy-days/supplemental-programming/
From the Inside Out: Accessing Soul Perspective
with Rabbi Jessica Marshall
Sunday, August 28, 10:00 – 11:30
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
Torah offers us countless examples of biblical characters thinking their lives will be a certain way and in a moment, “lifting their eyes” to receive a new path or a new knowing. We are each able to receive the highest perspective. How can we hear and know the Divine in deeper ways? How can we live as Divine beings in more expansive ways? Join us as we kick off the month of Elul and explore how our highest perspective is calling us forward in the New Year.
Please bring a journal/notebook, pen, and your wonderous spirit!
Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall is Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Or. Rabbi Marshall guides participants into deeper connection with Spirit by moving beyond intellect or logic, to access soul-wisdom so their path lights up with ease, vitality, abundance, and JOY!
Audience: Adult
Supplemental Programming
Writing Our Way In: Finding Inspiration As We Prepare For The High Holy Days
with Deborah Nedelman
Sunday, September 4, 10:00 – 11:30 am
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
For writers and non-writers alike, this workshop is designed to help you find the words to lead to your intentions for the coming holy days and for the new year. We will write together in a zoom classroom and will use poetry and sacred text to prompt our writing. All words are welcome. You will be free to keep your writing private or to share with the group if you wish. Join us, you just might surprise yourself.
Deborah Nedelman, PhD, MFA is co-author of 2 non-fiction books: A Guide for Beginning Psychotherapists and Still Sexy After All These Years. Her first novel, What We Take for Truth, won the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. Deborah is a manuscript coach and leads writing and watercolor painting workshops. She lives on Whidbey Island and swims in the Salish Sea. Deborah is a founding member of TBO.
Audience: Adult
Supplemental Programming
How Filled with Awe is This Place and We Did Not Know It! Finding Wonder in the Days of Awe through Story, Metaphor, and Symbol
with Ellis Engbar
Thursday, September 8, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
Ellis Engbar is the Lifecycle Coordinator/Rabbinic Assistant at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle and has been a program creator, service leader, religious school teacher, b’nei mitzvah coach and adult educator at Temple Beth Or.
Audience: Adult
Supplemental Programming
Challah Baking For High Holy Days
with Leslie Elsemore
Sunday, September 11, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (with breaks)
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
Bake a round challah for the new year in your kitchen! The recipe and Zoom invitation will be supplied and we’ll bake together and schmooze as we make delicious challah to freeze and have for Rosh HaShanah and for Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast!
Leslie Elsemore, is a TBO Membership Committee member, retired teacher, grandmother, walker, and baker.
Audience: All Ages
Supplemental Programming
Selichot Dinner and Concert
Saturday, September 17
6:30 pm – Dinner at the home of Rabbi Kort and family
9:00 pm – Hadar Rising Song Institute Concert
Join your Temple Beth Or Community for dinner at the home of Rabbi Kort and the greater Seattle Jewish Community for a concert hosted by Congregation Beth Shalom in celebration of Selichot. The Hadar Rising Song Institute is coming to Seattle. Co-directors of Hadar Rising Song, Joey Weisenberg and Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz will be joined by their friend and local Jewish musician, Chava Mirel, and will share music to spiritually prepare us for the High Holy Days.
In-person only. Must be pre-registered for concert and/or dinner specifically to attend.
You are welcome to join us for dinner, the concert, or both. This concert is expected to sell out. Please get your tickets now. Temple Beth Or is a sponsoring congregation so you can register now to enjoy a ticket discount. Please note that while the concert is a public event, dinner is limited to Temple members and members of the Adult B’nei Mitzvah Class.
Concert registration: tinyurl.com/hadarrising
Dinner Registration: Dinner registration closes Wednesday, September 14, 3:00 pm. tinyurl.com/rabbidinner
Audience: All Ages
Theme: K’hilah/ Community: How Good it is to be Together
Spiritual Preparation
The Shofar Project
with Glen Pickus
Sunday, September 18, 11:00 am – Noon
In-person only (no streaming).
We’re creating a shofar “symphony” to sound a tekiah g’dolah–mighty blast at our Rosh Hashanah services this year. All are invited to participate and all are invited to learn how to sound the shofar. Learn how to blow shofar with a shofar teaching master, Glen Pickus. You will need to provide your own shofar. They can be purchased for less than $30 via Amazon or Eichlers.com. Sanitized shofarot will be available for Religious School students to borrow during class. The Shofar Project is in memory of our member and ba’al tekiah (master of the blast) Al Friedman, z”l.
Glen Pickus has been a member of TBO for over 30 years and is proof that you don’t need to possess musical talent in order to blow a mean shofar.
This will be part of Religious School (3rd-7th grade). Community members are welcome to participate but must register in advance (parents and non-RS siblings must also register).
Audience: All Ages
Supplemental Programming
How We Get Trapped in Conflict and How We Get Out : Based on the book High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
with Rabbi David Fine
Thursday, September 22, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
The class will begin in life, taking on a simple question that divides us and then move to textual instruction that helps us see and understand each other. Why do we see the world differently and how we can move through the conflict to make meaningful connections?
Rabbi David Fine is Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Or. His joy is in teaching people about the richness of Judaism and how it can add meaning and vitality to life. Curiosity and playfulness are two of his trademarks.
Audience: Adult
Supplemental Programming
Erev Rosh HaShanah Service
with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Sunday, September 25, 7:00-8:00 pm
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting only (no in-person). Must be registered for High Holy Days to receive Zoom link.
Interactive Rosh HaShanah traditions with contemporary elements.
You are encouraged to prepare holiday candles, kiddush wine or juice, apples & honey, and other festive drinks and treats to enjoy during this online service.
Audience: Multigenerational
Themes: Blessings of Hope; K’hilah/ Community: How Good it is to be Together
Rosh HaShanah: A New Year’s Festival
with Rabbi Kort, Cantor Dreskin, and Youth Programming with Eian Snyder
Monday, September 26 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
In person at retreat center and streamed via Zoom Webinar (Only the 11:00 am Rosh Hashanah service will be streamed).
Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend or receive Zoom link.
10:00 – 10:45 am Optional Spiritual Preparation Activity with Cantor Dreskin
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Youth Programming
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Morning RH Service
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch & Book Return
1:45 – 2:45 pm Afternoon Options (Hiking, Book discussion, Camp Singing with Cantor Dreskin, Kids Story with Rabbi Kort, Teen Programming with Eian Snyder)
3:00 – 3:45 pm Tashlich with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Due to potential streaming issues, a pre-recorded sermon and a clean recording of the service will be made available.
Our New Year’s Festival will include:
- Morning Mindfulness
- Dynamic Worship Services
- Tashlich at the Lake
- Opportunities for hiking, learning, and socializing
- Engaging parallel programming for youth
- Boxed lunch available from Kindred Kitchen – must pre-order by September 12.
- Casual Attire
Audience: Multigenerational
Themes: Blessings of Hope; K’hilah/ Community: How Good it is to be Together
Shabbat Shuvah
with Rabbi Kort and Shoshana Stombaugh
Saturday, October 1, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
In person at TBO and Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
Traditional Shabbat Morning Worship Service with HHD melodies
No registration needed for members. Registration required for non- members.
Please register at templebethor.org/service-registration/. Registration deadline is September 30, 3:00 pm
Audience: All Ages
Cemetery Service
with Rabbi David Fine
Sunday, October 2, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
GAR Cemetery, 8601 Riverview Rd, Snohomish
No pre-registration needed to attend in person – no streaming available
This lovely and moving service honors all the generations who have come before us as we take a moment to pause and reflect on those who have passed on.
Audience: All Ages
Erev Yom Kippur Service
with Rabbi Kort, Cantor Dreskin, and cellist Rebekah Hood-Sava from the Pacifica Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, October 4, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
In person at TBO and streamed via Zoom Webinar.
Must be registered for High Holy Days and have noted this particular service on your registration in order to attend in-person. Zoom link available for all who are registered.
Traditional Kol Nidrei Service with creative elements.
Audience: All Ages
Theme: Accountability vs. Cancelled
Yom Kippur Morning Service
with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Wednesday, October 5, 10:00 – 11:30 am
In person at TBO and streamed via Zoom Webinar.
Must be registered for High Holy Days and have noted this particular service on your registration in order to attend in-person. Zoom link available for all who are registered.
Traditional Worship Service with creative elements.
Audience: All Ages
Theme: The Other Side of Fear
Yom Kippur Yizkor Service
with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Wednesday, October 5, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
In person at TBO and streamed via Zoom Webinar.
Must be registered for High Holy Days and have noted this particular service on your registration in order to attend in-person. Zoom link available for all who are registered.
Traditional Memorial Service including recitation of community Yizkor list.
Audience: All Ages
Our Traditional Adult Learning Opportunity
with Ellis Engbar
Wednesday, October 5, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Interactive Online via Zoom Meeting.
More information to follow.
Ellis Engbar is the Lifecycle Coordinator/Rabbinic Assistant at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle and has been a program creator, service leader, religious school teacher, b’nei mitzvah coach and adult educator at Temple Beth Or.
Audience: Adult
Supplemental Programming
Yom Kippur Youth Service
with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Wednesday, October 5, 3:00-3:30 pm
In person at TBO and streamed via Zoom Meeting.
Must be registered for High Holy Days and have noted this particular service on your registration in order to attend in-person. Zoom link available for all who are registered.
Audience: Youth
Reverse Tashlich
with Rabbi Kort and Melissa VonAschen-Cook
Wednesday, October 5, 3:30-4:15 pm
In person only at TBO (no streaming). Must be registered for High Holy Days to attend.
Inspired by the prophet Isaiah who encouraged communal responsibility, we’ll participate in a trash clean-up with mindfulness elements around our neighborhood.
Audience: Multi-Generational
Theme: Building Connections, Healing Divides
Yom Kippur Concluding Service
with Rabbi Kort and Cantor Dreskin
Wednesday, October 5, 4:30 – 6:00 pm
In person at TBO and streamed via Zoom Meeting.
Must be registered for High Holy Days and have noted this particular service on your registration in order to attend in-person. Zoom link available for all who are registered.
Contemporary Service with traditional N’ilah elements. Will conclude with Havdalah.
Audience: All Ages
Themes: Blessings of Hope; K’hilah/ Community: How Good it is to be Together
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