Selihot

This Saturday night at 9:30 we will usher in the final countdown to the High Holidays with our yearly Seliḥot (“Penitential”) service, preparing ourselves spiritually and ethically for the High Holiday season. This year we will have the choice to attend in-person, or participate remotely over two different virtual platforms, StreamSpot and Zoom.

Seliḥot is a good way to get into the mood of these “Days of Awe,” as well as refamiliarize ourselves with some of the beautiful High Holiday melodies we’ll soon sing together on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur in synagogue.

This year’s Seliḥot is unique, as we will all have a chance to hear and meet our High Holiday ḥazzan, Jonathon Adler, who will be joining us remotely from away. Jonathon is a Rabbinical School student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and we are excited to welcome him (and his beautiful singing voice) to the Shaar to enrich our tefillah, beginning with Seliḥot.

We will gather in-person in the Shaar sanctuary this Saturday night at 9:30, and the StreamSpot and Zoom webcasts will be live then.

Looking forward to sharing this very unique service with you.