Rosh Hashanah Day 1
October 3 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT
Join Us for a Spiritually Rich and Politically Relevant High Holy Days Celebration
Led by Rabbi Cat Zavis (member of Rabbis for Ceasefire & JVP Rabbinical Council) & Musical Director Ami Goodman
Joined by Abby Caplin, percussionist Jan Padover and violin accompaniment
Our services will be a beautiful blend of deep spirituality and prophetic consciousness. We will find a way to navigate this challenging time together, holding our grief, compassion, care, and rage. We will have speakers that will open our heart and mind as well as expand our consciousness. Our music will lift our spirits and hold our brokenness.
When you register, you will receive a link to our powerful Teshuva (repentance) workbook and a link to register to join Rabbi Cat’s Elul Teshuva (repentance) class before the holidays. There are three sessions on Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5:00pm PT, Sunday, Sept. 15th at 5:00pm PT, and Sunday, Sept. 22nd at 5:00pm PT.
In addition, Beyt Tikkun members will have a unique opportunity for a “teshuva check-in” with Rabbi Cat Zavis in the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. She will be hosting two open Zoom calls with members to share your process, ask questions, and receive spiritual support and guidance. (More info below.)
We will, as always, have our unique Beyt Tikkun Al Cheyt (For Our Sins) for both the personal and collective ways we have missed the mark. This has been a very difficult year. We will hold the grief, sorrow, rage, and complexity of our feelings in our beloved community and also celebrate and embrace the New Year with its possibilities for transformation. We hope you will join us.
At a time when it looks like the world is falling apart and the forces of evil are flourishing, we invite you to join Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls for a spiritually rich and politically relevant High Holy Days experience. Our services will strengthen your capacity for hope and faith in the possibility of a transformed world because you will be in a community of people who share your values and dreams.
At Beyt Tikkun, we believe in a Judaism of love and transformation. We heal ourselves and our world through joyful and meaningful spiritual practice, loving relationships, social activism, and revolutionary consciousness. You don’t have to be Jewish, religiously observant, or in the Bay Area to join us for High Holy Day services.
Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls is inspired by the prophetic teachings of Abraham Joshua Heschel:
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of mystery that animates all beings . . . Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. A liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
Our 2024/5785 High Holy Day services will be held both in person (in the Bay Area) and on Zoom. We hope you will join us. [Please note that all times below are in Pacific Time.]
Erev Rosh Hashanah | Oct 2nd, 5:30pm
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 | Oct 3rd, 9:00am
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 | Oct 4th, 10:00am
Kol Nidre | Oct 11th, 6:30pm
Yom Kippur | Oct 12th, 9:00am
The central message of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is to engage in individual repair and transformation of ourselves so we can bring our more fully healed selves to social movements and struggles for healing and repair of our world.