Tashlich ("casting away of sins"). Meet at the synagogue and walk over together or...
Meet up at the East River
Promenade & 83rd Street
Free and open to all.
YOM
KIPPUR FOOD DRIVE!
Please bring food items such as cans, plastic jars, boxes, nonrefrigerated
juice or milk cartons to any Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur service. Donations benefit the Yorkville Common Pantry.
Sukkot Can you imagine a festive so cool, so neat, so wonderful that the only
name it really needs is: The Festival? Well, that is Sukkot — while
often called Sukkot, or Hag Ha'Asif (the Feast of the Ingathering or
the Feast of the Harvest), it is often called HeHag - The Festival
(par excellence)! This is a purely joyful festival during which we
show our gratitude for the bounteous harvest that will get us through
the coming winter months and sustain us until the Spring Festival of
Pesach.
We give our thanks to God. On this holiday we rejoice in the
four kinds (Arba Minim or four species) of crops: products of the
hadar tree (citrus), branches of palm trees (dates), boughs of leafy
trees and willow of the brook. We celebrate the festival under the
temporary dwellings called Sukkot — reminiscent of the temporary
booths we lived in during the Exodus and also the temporary shelters
erected during harvest seasons to shelter the workers and the harvest
itself until it could be properly stored. The symbol of the Sukkah
reminds us that even beauty (and most Sukkot are beautiful to behold)
is temporary — life is fragile. The decorations of the fruits of the
harvest reminds us how lucky we are to eat and remind us to remember
those who are less fortunate.
At Congregation Da'at Elohim-TUJ we will rejoice in the harvest,
remember those less fortunate and we will take the four species in our
hands and recite the blessings that remind us how very lucky we are to
have food to sustain body and soul and mind. Come, rejoice with us!
September 29, Wednesday
7:30pm
Simchat Torah
For the finale of a warm, and wonderful holiday season we have Simchat
Torah — Rejoicing in the Torah.
While this holiday is rather late in
invention (it is not mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud), it is an
integral part of the High Holiday season. We have always taught that
the Torah is God's gift to us — a symbol of God's love for our
people. On this day we will conclude the reading of the final
chapters of the Torah and start all over again at the story of the
creation of the world. The rabbis have said, "Turn it over and turn
it over again, for in it you will find everything!" This is the day
that we actualize that process.
At CDE-TUJ it has become our
tradition to unroll the entire Torah down the center aisle — everyone
having a chance to hold the unfurled Torah scroll. Come join us and
celebrate Simchat Torah — hold the Torah and be part of the
celebration!
