About our services:
Our services are rooted in traditional Jewish liturgy and follow the outline of a traditional Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Neilah service. We dive deep into high holiday prayers, as well as weave in new songs and expressions that speak to this particular moment. This community is part of many lineages: spiritual, cultural, chosen, received. You can expect a blend of Traditional-Egalitarian, Jewish Renewal, Kohenet, pre-Rabbinic earth-based practices, and a fierce thread of prayers tying us to movements and struggles for freedom, for the liberation of Palestine and all people, and for praying our way into a vibrant, liberatory, diasporist new vision of Jewish culture(s), reclaiming our Judaism from the violent grips of zionism.
About the service length:
High Holiday services are longer than traditional Shabbat or other festival services. This minyan (prayer community) understands prayer as a disruption tactic and as a revolutionary practice. Which is to say that it takes practice. We do not often give ourselves opportunities for expansive, spacious collective prayer. In these services, we invite a practice of each-in-our-own-way as we find our way into prayer. We believe these skills are worth building together—to practice prayer until we can return to ourselves, to each other, until it is a tactic we can use instinctively in the streets, in the face of violence and in our grief and love.
We expect the Rosh Hashanah Service to be 3-4 hours long
The Yom Kippur workshop will be 1 hour
We expect the Neilah Service to be 1.5 hours long
All are welcome to sit, take breaks, leave and return as is needed. Please do what you need to take care of yourself.