Prepare for the High Holidays with Koleinu Beit Midrash
Elul, the month before Rosh HaShanah, is an auspicious time for introspection, Torah study, and exploration of the themes of Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe. Please join Koleinu Beit Midrash for three workshops to open ourselves to the possibilities of transformation in this season, focusing on tefillah (prayer), tzedakah (justice), and teshuvah (return). Each of these offerings is free of charge.
ELUL SHUL: Tefillah
L’eila: Warming up our voices and our spirits for the Days of Awe with Joey Weisenberg
Monday, September 9, 7:00 PM in the Magil Chapel
Join Joey Weisenberg to sing and study some of the liturgical melodies of the High Holidays. The group will sing melodies from the mazhor (the High Holiday prayerbook) together, consider the meaning of the prayers, and begin the process of spiritual preparation for Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe. Let’s warm up together!
Registration limited to 40 participants. Sign up now to secure your spot!
Registration has closed, but we encourage you to still join us this evening!
ELUL SHUL: Tzedakah
Reverse Tashlich Litter Clean-Up with Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti
Sunday, September 15, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, meeting in the GJC parking lot
This year, for the first time, GJC will participate in the international movement “Reverse Tashlich,” founded by Repair the Sea. In the traditional tashlich (casting) ritual, we throw bread into a waterway to symbolically cast away mistakes of the past year. In reverse tashlich, we clean up watersheds from the litter humans have cast away. Please join us, meeting in GJC’s parking lot, for a walking litter clean-up inspired by this season. All ages welcome! Garbage bags and gloves will be provided.
Registration has closed, but we encourage you to meet us at GJC this morning!
ELUL SHUL: Teshuvah
Tkhines (Women’s Prayers in Yiddish) for the High Holidays (co-sponsored by Women of GJC)
A Workshop on Making Memorial Candles with Chava Weissler
Tuesday, September 24, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM at GJC in the Temin Canteen Room
For centuries, Ashkenazic women in Europe went to visit the cemetery before the High Holidays, reciting prayers as they encircled the cemetery and individual graves with candle wicking. Later, at home or in the synagogue, the women would infuse the wicks with wax, again reciting prayers, and braid them together, making one heavy candle for the living members of their families, and one for the dead, the origin of what we call the yahrzeit candle. We will study the tkhines for this ritual and make candles using a simpler method.
Registration has closed, but we encourage you to still join us this evening!