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Elul Learning Sessions to Prepare for the High Holy Days
Learning sessions will take place from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the CBI Library, in person only

Wednesday, August 27 Sacred Music and Liturgy of the High Holy Days
Rabbi Jacob Fine

We will learn and sing some beautiful new melodies that will be part of our High Holy Day services this year and briefly explore the liturgy connected to the melodies. Come prepared to sing!

Tuesday, September 2 Teshuvah in Light of Mass Starvation
Facilitated by Judi Wisch and Naomi Barnesky

The Jews Read Palestinian Stories Havurah is offering an opportunity to share in small groups what it means to make teshuvah personally and communally at this time of mass starvation in Gaza. Our eyes have been opened in our havurah as we have read stories from the Palestinian perspective. It is up us to take this time in Elul to reflect on what is meaningful teshuvah.

Wednesday, September 3 Responding to the Call to Action: Lessons from Jonah
Rabbi Ariella, Eva Gerstle, Bella Levavi

We’ll explore and study themes in the Book of Jonah followed by completing the crankie* panels on Jonah that our community began on Shavuot. No art background necessary!

*A crankie is a storytelling device that consists of a scroll inside a box, where a puppeteer “cranks” the scroll as a performance unfolds, revealing a visual representation of the story. We are creating the panels for the Book of Jonah, and the crankie will be performed on Yom Kippur afternoon.

Wednesday, September 10 The Psalms of Elul
Rabbi Ed Feld

Customarily we recite Psalm 27 each day during the month of Elul. How does this psalm prepare us for the High Holy Days? How does it speak to us? What other psalms might we look to for inspiration in this month suggested by its themes?

Wednesday, September 17 Rosh Hashanah as Communal Experience
Rabbi Ben Barer

In this class, we will explore key texts from משנה ראש השנה (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah) that explore what it takes to create and maintain a religiously/theologically effective communal ritual like Rosh Hashanah amidst discord both within the Jewish community and between the Jewish community and neighboring communities.

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