5779 Our 30 th Year/Our “Lamed” Year Still Learning, Striving, Caring This year we celebrate our 30 th Yamim Noraim together as a sacred community. From generation to generation, we ReGenerate our commitment to our vision and ideals. Using the mystical tool of Gematria, where numbers are transformed into letters, the number 30 is the Hebrew letter "Lamed" and is our guidepost for the year. Lamed means to learn and serves as the root for lilmod, to embody and li’lamed, to teach. Lamed is also used as a direction toward action – to move toward or to become. As we look beyond our 30 th /Lamed year we turn to our Statement of Principles and re-embrace these foundational tenets to keep us moving toward the actions required in these times. We will learn, embody, teach and walk toward them with renewed communal dedication. We will explore how we take care of ourselves as we heal a broken world. We join together for these High Holy Days and Fall Festivals to discover what lies ahead for
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5779Our 30th Year/Our “Lamed” Year
Still Learning, Striving, Caring
This year we celebrate our 30th Yamim Noraim together as a sacred community.From generation to generation, we ReGenerate our commitment to our vision and ideals. Using the mystical tool of Gematria, where numbers are transformed into letters, the number 30 is the Hebrew letter "Lamed" and is our guidepost for the year. Lamed means to learn and serves as the root for lilmod, to embody and li’lamed, to teach. Lamed is also used as a direction toward action – to move toward or to become. As we look beyond our 30th/Lamed year we turn to our Statement of Principles and re-embrace these foundational tenets to keep us moving toward the actions required in these times. We will learn, embody, teach and walk toward them with renewed communal dedication. We will explore how we take care of ourselves as we heal a broken world. We join together for these High Holy Days and Fall Festivals to discover what lies ahead for us as we ReGenerate and celebrate our sacred connections to community and the world.
~ Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit and Rabbi Yael Levy ~
SELICHOT Preparing the Ground For Renewal And At-One-Ment
Saturday, September 1– Selichot Service & Workshop8:00 p.m. – Teshuvah Workshop - laying the groundwork for forgiveness in meditation, journaling and discussion 9:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m. - “Return to the Home of Your Soul” Led by Rabbi Shawn Zevit and Rabbi Yael Levy. A ritual and prayerful focus on teshuvah, letting go and preparing the inner ground for the holy days. We will sing, study and discuss the places of challenge and opportunity in our lives as we enter this new Jewish year together.
Tallitot and MachzorimIf you have your own tallit/prayer shawl and/or Kol Haneshamah Machzor for High Holy Days, please bring them with you. We have a limited number of both available. Please note that a tallit is traditionally worn at all morning services and throughout YomKippur beginning with the Kol Nidre evening service, the only evening service in the entire year at which we wear tallitot.
ROSH HASHANAH
Rosh Hashanah Services led by Rabbis Shawn Zevit, Yael Levy, Myriam Klotz, members of the Mishkan Shalom High Holy Day team as indicated.
Rosh Hashanah Evening Service at Mishkan ShalomSunday, September 9, 7:00 pmLed by Rabbi Shawn Zevit
We welcome the Jewish New Year, 5779, with song, prayer and spiritual preparation for the Days of Awe. An Oneg follows the service, giving us the opportunity to reconnect with old and new friends and welcome new members. First Day Rosh Hashanah at The Haverford School
Monday, September 10, 9:00 amLed by Rabbis Shawn Zevit, Yael Levy, Margot Stein, Myriam Klotz, and members of the Mishkan Shalom High Holy Day team.Child Care Provided – see page 8
Join us as we create an experience of celebration and transformation through Prayer, Music, Torah and the resonant sounds of the shofar.
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9:00-10:30 a.m. – Shacharit (morning) service using Kol Haneshamah Machzor
Aliyot – As we read the creation story anew, as an alternative Rosh Hashanah reading, we continue the tradition of celebrating our community, our leaders and our journeys.
Communal Meal – To deepen our connection to each other and celebrate the first day of this New Year we join together for lunch following services. We ask each household to contribute something to this healthy, celebratory meal.
Tashlich at Valley GreenMonday, September 10 - Gathering at 3:30 p.m.During the Tashlich ritual, we continue the process of teshuvah as we go to a place of flowing water with the
thoughts, feelings and behaviors we wish to let go of in the year ahead. We will join together at Valley Green (across from the Valley Green Inn) on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Bring bread crumbs or greens for the ducks; a shofar to sound; children and friends. Join us as we seek to further free ourselves from whatever limits our spiritual development and keeps us from being the person we wish to become.
Second Day Rosh Hashanah at Mishkan Shalom/A Way In Mindfulness Service Tuesday, September 11, 9:00 am – 1:00 pmLed by Rabbis Yael Levy, Shawn Zevit, Margot Stein, Myriam Klotz, and other Mishkan leaders
We celebrate the second day of the Jewish New Year with Mindfulness, Music and Movement.
TRADITIONAL PRAYERS surrounded with silence and reflection
MOVEMENT for the body and soul
MUSIC to open the heart
TEACHINGS and MEDITATION
TORAH READING and opportunities to receive blessings
100 blasts of the SHOFAR
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SHABBAT SHUVAH AT MISHKAN SHALOM Saturday, September 15
9:00 a.m. – Teshuvah study with Rabbi Shawn Zevit
10:00 a.m. – Shabbat service, FORGIVENESS, ATONEMENT and SOCIAL JUSTICE with Rabbi Shawn.
YOM KIPPUR SEPTEMBER 18 -19
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, also known as the Sabbath of Sabbaths, is one of the most powerful individual and communal days in the Jewish calendar. We invite and encourage everyone to participate in the entire day’s offerings of services, workshops and programs.
Yom Kippur crescendos with the poignant Neilah (closing) service, the final service and gathering of prayers and affirmations of our whole community. The energy is powerful and profound and a perfect way to conclude the Days of Awe together and deepen our connections as we step into Sukkot. Feel free to bring family and friends, a shofar and a Havdallah candle for the final shofar blasts at the conclusion of Neilah and for the Havdallah service that ends the day.
Special Clothing and Customs for Yom KippurMany people choose to wear white clothing on Yom Kippur as a sign of longing for purity of soul and teshuvah/repentance. Some wear a kittel, a white robe worn at moments of transition and is what Jews are traditionally clothed in when we die. If you own a kittel please bring it with you; if not, consider wearing white for Yom Kippur. Along with fasting from food and drink, and refraining from intimate relations, there is also a custom not to wear leather
and leather products on Yom Kippur since leather comes from a living being whose life was taken and made into leather products, historically considered a luxury.
Altar of Memory
You are invited to bring a remembrance of someone in your life who has died and place it on the altar that will also hold yarzheit candles for memorial lighting. Through these photographs and objects we open our hearts to those we have lost and bring their presence with us as we enter this holiest of days.
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Food Donation
Please bring canned or boxed goods and participate in a city-wide food drive through Philabundance and Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
Kol Nidre at The Haverford SchoolTuesday, September 186:00 p.m. gathering, 6:30 p.m. candle lighting and service
We open our hearts to forgiveness and compassion as we enter Yom Kippur together. Each of us will have the opportunity to write a teshuvah (return and atonement) card which will include ways we feel we have missed the mark and erred this past year as well as ways in which we have lived out our values and ideals.
Yom Kippur Day at The Haverford SchoolWednesday, September 19Child care provided – see page 8
We begin the day with two soulful offerings for Shacharit (morning) and come together at the Torah service.
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. – Chant, liturgical prayer and reflection using Kol Haneshamah Machzor with Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Kohenet Shoshana Bricklin and other Mishkan leaders.
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. – A Way In Mindfulness Service: Meditation, Reflection, Movement and Music with Rabbis Yael Levy, Margot Stein and Myriam Klotz.
11:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m. – Torah service including sermon, discussion and haftarah.Followed by Musaf/additional prayers.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 PM – Avodah: Service of Offerings –Wendy Galson & Susan WindleThe Avodah service is traditionally devoted to exploring the offerings of the High Priest brought to the Temple to cleanse himself and the community from sins. For our service, we will make personal offerings. You are invited to bring a poem, a story, a song, and experience, thought or work of art you would like to share. We will make these offerings to each other as a way to draw our souls closer to what we love and who we may yet be.
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. – Afternoon sessions
The Compassionate Perspective with Mordechai Liebling and Lynne Iser Using and growing our moral imagination, we will reflect on our own lives and see how the basic features and conditions of our lives have prepared us to take part in the healing of the world. Like climbing a mountain and looking back on the landscape below, this practice provides a vantage point that lets us see what has been present but perhaps was not visible. From that overarching perspective, we can view unsuspected connections and goodness; and, how our responses to suffering and limitations have strengthened us for the work we have come to do in this lifetime. This workshop is based on the teachings of Joanna Macy.
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Deepening Forgiveness: A Guided Chant and Meditation with Wendy Galson -- In the mid-afternoon we can feel the end of the day looming near and we may be acutely aware that our personal “repair and return work” is incomplete. The immense brokenness of the world may evoke a sense of despair and personal insufficiency. At this moment of the day when our physical energy is low, we may be most able to let go of what holds us back from a more loving acceptance of ourselves and this beautiful and broken world. Using chant, gentle stretching, and guided meditation, we will move through regret and brokenness, to opening and allowing, toward deepening forgiveness and healing. Please bring a mat or blanket to rest on, and extras for others.
Discerning our Spiritual Work this Day of Atonement with Meredith Barber Spiritual Direction is a process for exploring our connection with what we experience as God, Spirit, Truth, however we express and understand the sacred in our lives. Using the structure of our monthly spiritual direction circles, we will allow time for sharing and reflection from participants. Through these explorations we will try to discern where we are being guided or need to put our attention this Yom Kippur Day, and in our lives in the year ahead.
What Is This Aliveness That I Am? with Rabbi Myriam Klotz Come learn together as we sit with a Hasidic master, the Mei'or Einayim, in this teaching in which he explores this question from a contemplative, spiritual perspective. Through learning this text in English (Hebrew text provided), we will immerse in reflective dialogue about essential nature, our aliveness and this Jewish mystical perspective on cultivating our relationship with the sacred dimension of our lives.
Collage Art Class for Kids Aged 4 to 104 with Mishkan Ed Director Rabbi JoysaThis family-friendly event is a chance for “kids” of all ages to come together and explore the main themes of the High Holidays through art and collage. Participants will create a 3-dimensional collage poster from torn magazines and other media that expresses their hopes and dreams for the coming year, as well as what such concepts as “forgiveness” “tikkun” “returning” and “rebirth” mean to them. Then, their artwork will be shared with other members of their own family, or in small groups formed on-the-spot during the session. This is meant to be a fun activity perfect for all ages. All supplies will be provided! Getting your hands gluey will be required!
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. – Yizkor/Memorial Service5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. - Minchah Service, Book of Jonah and Panel Discussion6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. - Neilah and Break Fast
Yizkor BookWe continue to offer an opportunity to remember family members and other significant people in our lives who have died. We will publish a Yizkor Book/Book of Remembrance that will be distributed at each of the Yizkor services throughout the year (Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, first day of Passover and Shavuot). Please note that the names will not be read aloud at these times. This book, which will also include poetry and liturgy, will be designed to inspire contemplation and prayer. If you would like to remember someone in this way, please fill out the Yizkor form enclosed in this Yamim Noraim/Days of Awe mailing and send it with your donation ($18 per name is suggested) to Mishkan Shalom, Attn: Maria. If you have questions contact Sharon Parker, [email protected]
Please join us for special services designed for children and their families, led by Mishkan educator Gabby Kaplan-Mayer.
Rosh Hashanah, Day 19:30—10:15 a.m.Children ages birth~5 years Young children and their families will sing and celebrate with special puppet friends who will teach us about the New Year. Older sibs welcome!
10:30—11:30 a.m.—Children ages 5—8 years: We will sing, pray and open the Torah together. Parents are encouraged to experience this service with their children. Special discussion questions will help children and their families reflect on gratitude and blessings.
11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.Children ages 9-12 Children will help lead prayers and discussion as we focus on our role in being a peace maker in the New Year. Older children will help to lead a Torah service. Parents are encouraged to join us and share this opportunity for reflection with their children.
Rosh Hashanah, Day 210:00-11:30 a.m.—Children of all ages and their families: We will share a creative, musical family service, followed by Rosh Hashanah crafts and coloring.
Yom Kippur9:30-10:15 a.m.—Children ages birth~5 years. Young children and their families will sing and celebrate with special puppet friends who will help to teach us about the importance of saying sorry and forgiving our friends. Older sibs welcome!
10:30—11:30 a.m.—Children ages 5—8 years. We will sing, pray and open the Torah together. Parents are encouraged to experience this service with their children. Special discussion questions will help children and their families reflect on positive choices that we can make at school, home and in taking care of the earth.
11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m.—Children ages 9-12. Children will help lead prayers and discussion as we focus on our role in making the world a loving, positive place and on the importance of taking responsibility when we get off track. Older children will help to lead a Torah service. Parents are encouraged to join us and share this opportunity for reflection with their children.
HIGH HOLIDAY CHILDCARE
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If your child needs a break from services and you wish to remain with your child, you and your child are welcome in the childcare room.
If you choose to leave your child with the childcare provider, you can register on the spot with the teacher. This drop-off childcare is for potty-trained children. Older children are welcome to volunteer as helpers, for some or all of the time.
Local teacher and mom, Rebecca Dhondt will once again offer games and fun in a safe atmosphere during services. Children will be brought to the children's services, or can be taken by their parents to children's services. Children may be brought in and out of childcare, with notification to the teacher.
WHO: Children aged 2 1/2 to 12 years old. WHEN:
o Day One Rosh Hashanah- Monday Sept 10th, 9 am - 1 pmo Kol Nidre service - Tuesday night Sept 18th, 6-8 pmo Yom Kippur Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, 9 am - 2 pm
WHERE: The dining room at the Haverford School DEADLINE: There is no deadline, but advance notice is appreciated FEE: FREE! Please consider a donation specifically to cover Mishkan’s cost, in addition to your usual
High Holiday donation. Suggested donation is $25 - $50 per day, per child BRING: a snack, a lunch, a water bottle for each child. No food will be provided. FOOD MUST BE
NUT AND PEANUT-FREE, AND DAIRY/VEGETARIAN SIGN UP is not required but is requested if possible.
Please send an email to Rebecca at [email protected] and include the following information:
Name of child/ren
Age(s) of child/ren
Name of parent(s)
Cell phone (reachable during services)
Allergies
Health issues /Medications
Important behaviors that the teacher should know about
COMMUNAL MEALSA significant piece of our community’s experience during the High Holy Days, are the two communal meals we create together. We have two potluck communal meals: lunch following the first day service of Rosh Hashanah and the break-the-fast following the end of Yom Kippur. The entire community – and guests -- are welcome and each family is asked to bring food and drink to share.
We are an active participant in the HAZON Seal of Sustainability program and our Green Team has taken on a focus on Recyclables, as well as Local, Organic and Food Justice/Fair Trade food where possible and affordable. Please keep this in mind when you purchase and prepare your food as we will have signs that can identify such products.
WE WILL PROVIDE COMPOSTABLE PLATES AND UTENSILS FOR YOUR USE and have arranged for a company to pick up our compostables.
Here are some guidelines: Bring enough food in your category for at least 4 times the number of people in your party
(e.g. a family of four should bring enough food for at least sixteen people)
Please bring serving utensils for your dish.
Please bring one liter of beverage for every two people in your party.
All food must be DAIRY or VEGETARIAN – no meat, fish or shellfish
Haverford is a nut-free environment: No nuts. Please PROVIDE AN INGREDIENT LIST for all food contributions, to assist those with
allergies.
If your last name begins with:
On Rosh HaShanah please bring: And on Yom Kippur please bring:
A - D Salads Breads and SpreadsE - J Desserts Salads
K - M Entrees SaladsN - S Entrees DessertsT - V Salads Breads and SpreadsW - Z Breads and Spreads Entrees
Please mark all dishes and utensils with your name, and remember to pick them up and take them home the same day.
Think of alternatives to breads and starchy, heavy foods. This is particularly true for Yom Kippur when people are breaking their fast.
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SUKKOT TO SHEMINI ATZERET
Raise the Sukkah! Thursday, September 20– daytimeTo help, contact Maria – [email protected]
Sukkot Open House– Sunday, September 23, 5:00 p.m. (New + Prospective Members Welcome!) at the home of Chris Jacobs and Nancy Post – rsvp to [email protected] for address
Sukkot Morning Monday, September 24, 10a.m. - noon Sukkot Morning service led by Rabbi Shawn and Rabbi Yael.
Decorate the Sukkah! Wednesday, September 26, 6:00 p.m.Decorate the Sukkah with our congregational school
Friday, October September 28, 5:45pm Community Potluck in the Mishkan Shalom SukkahKabbalat Shabbat services 7:30pm with Rabbi Shawn in the 3rd floor Chapel
Sukkot Shabbat morning, Saturday, September 29 9:00 a.m. - Sukkot Torah study 10:00 a.m. - Shabbat Sukkot Service with Rabbi Yael and A Way In Mindfulness service, Hallel
Come one, come all!
Sunday September 30th, Special invitation to new members!Sukkot Potluck for New and Prospective Members! Sunday, September 30, 12:00 noon right after Hebrew School in the Mishkan Shalom Sukkah
Simchat Torah – Sunday, September 30, 6:30 p.m.Come celebrate as we dance, sing and unroll the entire Torah. We will honor all we have learned through the preceding holidays and on our life-long journey. We will read the last section of the Torah and begin again as we each connect with the message the Torah has for reach of us. Bring a line from your own Bar or Bat Mitzvah to share in the celebration!
Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Monday, October 1, 10:00 a.m. Shacharit/morning service in partnership with Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan at Germantown Jewish Centre, 400 West Ellet St, Philadelphia. Led by Rabbi Shawn, Rabbi Dayle Friedman and Dorshei Derekh leaders
Morning services on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and all services on Yom Kippur will be held at the Haverford School.
Evening services on Rosh Hashanah and services on the second day of Rosh Hashanah will be held at Mishkan Shalom.
We are fortunate to return to a beautiful space to hold many of our Yamim Noraim services. The Haverford School at 450 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041 accommodates our needs excellently. There is ample, comfortable space for our services, our children’s programming, our study sessions, and our holiday meals.
We also once again have the blessing of being able to spend part of the Yamim Noraim at Mishkan Shalom. Last year, we truly enjoyed being in our own building for Rosh Hashanah evening and for the second day of Rosh Hashanah and we look forward to being home for these services again this year. The comfort, familiarity, and joy we share in being in our own home adds to the beauty of the holiday celebration.
FEE SCHEDULE FOR GUESTS
Mishkan Shalom has a wonderful, inclusive tradition of welcoming any and all guests to our High Holiday Services. We encourage guests to pre-register for the High Holidays visiting our registration page by visiting https://mishkan.org/donations The suggested fee for guests in $360 /adult for all services.
Guest fees for prospective members may be applied to membership when joining by November 1, 2018. All contributions are tax deductible. Please send contributions or registrations to Mishkan Shalom, 4101 Freeland Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19128
