High Holidays 5786
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We are so glad you are joining us for High Holidays 5786! Our High Holidays services will be taking place in Minneapolis/Saint Paul this year. We hope to bring you familiar faces, rituals and new experiences as we continue to grow our community together.
You’ll find our entire High Holidays schedule below. You can RSVP for all events through the form linked at each event. If you’re interested in volunteering your time and skills to help us during High Holidays services please indicate that on your form and we’ll be in touch!
Shalom, Salaam, & Shana Tova!
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Pre-High Holiday Offerings
Elul Song Circles: Reflect, Sing, Return, Prepare
Led by Bex Klafter with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, Lila Sarene, and Margot Seigle
We invite you to join the Rosh Hashanah team of World to Come Twin Cities for three opportunities to prepare for the Jewish New Year in reflection, song, and community. The last month of the year, Elul, is a time of daily reflection and spiritual preparation.
No prior knowledge and no future commitment necessary. Come to any one or all Song Circle offerings!
Selichot
Saturday, September 20, 2025 / 6-7:30pm
Hidden Falls Pavilion (map)
Led by Ray Himmelman, Kohenet Sharon Jaffe, and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg
The selichot service recited in the month and days before Rosh Hashanah, is a time to spiritually prepare for the new year through prayers of confession and asking for forgiveness. Join Jessica, Ray and Sharon for havdalah and selichot at Hidden Falls, for a ritual of preparation for the new year in our time of genocide in Gaza and divesting from Zionism. We will engage with the traditional liturgy, song, guided meditation, and silent reflection. All are welcome.
Conflict and Teshuvah: Repairing our Relationship to Judaism
Led by Mara, Shoshana & Sylvie of the Movement Care Team
As Jews entering 5786 we are called to practice Teshuvah: a process that asks us to repair harm and return to alignment with our integrity and values. As we approach another season of Teshuvah during active genocide in Palestine, we are offering this workshop to reflect on our personal relationships to being Jewish.
We will use art making, group discussion, and private reflection to deepen/repair our relationship to Judaism and Jewish community in this climate of immense heartbreak and fracturing. Please join us, whether you are returning from a previous year’s Conflict and Teshuvah workshop or new to this space.
Sunday, September 21, 2025 / 2:30-4:30pm
Powderhorn Park (map)
(more specifics provided upon rsvp)
Rosh Hashanah Services
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Led by Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg
This evening service will be indoors and followed by a dessert potluck outside.
Feel free to bring a dessert to welcome in a sweet new year!
Monday, September 22, 2025 / 6-8:30pm
Potluck dessert at 8:30pm
New City Center (map)
(hybrid option available)
Rosh Hashanah Day 1
Led by Bex Klafter, Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, Margot Seigle, and Lila Sarene
This service will pull together a combination of traditional liturgy as well as songful melodies both new and old.
Outdoor lunch potluck to follow (please see our Covid Policies for more details about community noshing). Please bring a kosher dish to share! The potluck coordinator will be in touch!
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 / 9am-1pm
New City Center (map)
(hybrid option available)
Potluck at 1pm
New City Center courtyard
Rosh Hashanah Day 2
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 / 10:15am-12:30pm
Shir Tikvah Synagogue (map)
Anchored by Kohenet Sharon Jaffe, with support from Shira Breen and Emma Stout
Please join us for chanting, movement meditation, healing, and renewal for steadfast solidarity.
Yom Kippur Services
Kol Nidre
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 / 6:30-8:30pm
Clouds in Water Zen Center (map)
(hybrid option available)
Led by Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg
A traditional chanting of Kol Nidre and reflective space to enter Yom Kippur together.
Yom Kipportal
Thursday, October 2, 2025 / 9:30am-3:30pm
Hidden Falls Pavilion (map)
Led by Ray Himmelman and Lila Sarene
Our 5786 Yom Kipportal will guide participants through a contemplative mystical journey into the depths of our relationships with harm, with death and with change. Through teachings, guided meditations, movement, storytelling and ritual we will descend together down a path of shedding and grieving to reveal the raw and messy core of our intuitions, our guidance, our clarity and our power. All offerings will include a variety of ways to engage. Participants will be invited to find their own balance between quiet/internal practice and naming, sharing and being witnessed.
*This event will be outside-- bring what you need to be comfortable! BYO camping chair, cushion or a blanket. Feel free to bring ritual objects and items for an ancestor alter. You might want a journal and pen.
KN95, N95, masks are required when gathering in close proximity (within 6’ of others) outdoors for High Holidays. Surgical and cloth masks are not permissible options. There will be opportunities during Yom Kipportal for people to space out and be unmasked. We will let you know in the program when those moments are. Please consider wearing a mask when approaching others. Read more in our Accessibility guidelines.
Yizkor + Neilah + Havdallah with Break Fast to follow
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Yizkor - 5-6pm
Neilah & Havdallah - 6-7:15pm
Break fast - 7:30-8:30pm
Clouds in Water Zen Center (map)
(hybrid option available for Neilah and Havdallah)
Led by Anniessa Antar, Kohenet Riv, and Relle Zaytoun Sonnenschein
Yizkor 5-6pm
Join us for a non- traditional Yizkor service. We will be centering the grief and loss we experience not typically acknowledged in Yizkor. We will remember queer beloveds and family (related and choosen), as well as the ongoing genocide and grief in our local community. Service will start with traditional liturgy led by Relle, then we will transition into an interactive somatic grief exercise led by Anneisa Antar and Kohenet Riv. Kaddish will be read.
Neilah & Havdallah 6-7:15pm
Help us close the portal of Yom Kippur in our Neilah and Havdallah services. Traditional liturgy, poetry and togetherness as we close the gate of Yom Kippur.
Break fast 7:30-8:30pm
Join us outside of Clouds in Water as we break our fast. A vegetarian kosher meal will be provided from Holy Land with gluten free options. Please see our Additional Covid Policies for more information regarding covid guidelines for noshing.
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