INN REG HHD 5785

Join Us for a Spiritually Rich and Politically Relevant High Holy Days Celebration

Led by Rabbi Cat Zavis (member of Rabbis for Ceasefire & JVP Rabbinic Council) & Musical Director Ami Goodman

Joined by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Abby Caplin, percussionist Jan Padover, and violinist Joshua Laurenzi

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.

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 hearts and minds as well as expand our consciousness and vision of what’s possible. Our music will lift our spirits and hold our brokenness.

We will welcome Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785 with a Creation Pageant. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb will lead us in an interactive big puppet creation pageant for all ages in remembrance that all life is sacred across all walls, bars, and borders. This colorful, joyous event is not to be missed!

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb will also give a teaching on the Torah of nonviolence in which we will explore the sacred texts of our tradition that uplift pathways of nonviolence, resistance, and peace.

In addition to your Beyt Tikkun team, we will hear from guest speakers, including an Israeli and a Palestinian who will help deepen our understanding of the present moment and how we can best be of service.

Dov Baum, director of American Friends Service Committee Action Center for Corporate Accountability, is a feminist scholar and teacher who has taught about militarism and the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli and U.S. universities. Dov is the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation and of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel.

Hamze Awawde is a Palestinian peace activist and conflict resolution expert; he holds a master’s degree in Global Community Development from the Hebrew University. His family was directly affected by the Nakba and was strongly involved in the Palestinian national movement, during which his grandfather was killed. This history showed Hamze the need to break the cycle of bloodshed and he has worked for many years to seek joint liberation and a shared future. You can find him on Instagram here.

When you register, you will receive a link to our powerful Teshuva (repentance) workbook.In addition, you can join Rabbi Cat for a “teshuva check-in” between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. She will be hosting two open Zoom calls 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 Beyt Tikkun . . .

We believe in a Judaism of love and transformation

We strive to heal ourselves and our world through joyful and meaningful spiritual practice, loving relationships, social activism, and revolutionary consciousness.

We believe in a Judaism beyond Zionism

We appreciate the important role of the land of Israel in Jewish tradition, liturgy, and identity. At the same time, we reject the fusing of Judaism or any religion with political nationalism. We oppose Jewish supremacy in all its manifestations and the construct of the Jews as the chosen people. We embrace the Jewish teachings that uplift the sacredness of all peoples.

We openly acknowledge that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against the Palestinian people – an injustice that continues to this day.

We reject any ideology that insists upon exclusive Jewish entitlement to the land. Just as we recognize that Turtle Island (i.e., North America) is the home of indigenous peoples, we simultaneously embrace that the land of Israel|Palestine has historically been considered sacred by many faiths and home to a variety of peoples, ethnicities, and cultures. In our advocacy and activism we oppose Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people. We seek a future that includes full civil and human rights for all who live in the land – Jews and non-Jews alike.

We believe in a Judaism without Walls

You don’t have to be Jewish, religiously observant, or in the Bay Area to join us for High Holy Day services. 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.