|
September 26, 2025 - 26 Elul 5785
Dear Friends, Thank you for joining us for Rosh Hashanah services. The High Holidays continue next week with Kol Nidre on Wednesday evening at 6:30PM. Yom Kippur services will begin on Thursday morning at 9:30AM and we will conclude the holiday with a very simple breaking of the fast at the end of the day, so I hope you will join us. This Shabbat is Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return, of course connected linguistically and thematically to T’shuvah, the repentance we seek on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. This week’s Parashat is called Vayelech, which means "And he went." So...we're hoping that you will return to Shul this Shabbat, and that you'll be able to say, "I went!" We look forward to being with you next week for Yom Kippur. While a traditional greeting wishes each other a Tzom Kal, an "easy fast," I strongly believe that the fast isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be meaningful and spiritually productive. So I prefer G'mar Chatimah Tovah, may we be sealed for goodness, or simply G'mar Tov, that we each may "finish well" and come into the new year better people than we were before. Shanah Tovah Um'tookah, G'mar Chatimah Tovah, and Shabbat Shalom! Yours, Rabbi Joshua Strom
|
