SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Holidays
Honoring milestones in our history as well as cycles in nature.
From the joyous to the solemn, we come together for important events.
Find new meaning in traditional holidays.
Selichot
Begin a spiritual journey of growth and reflection as we prepare to enter into the season of awe and renewal.
Rosh Hashanah
Celebrate the New Year and usher in the High Holy Days with the TBE community.
Yom Kippur
The most solemn religious holy day of the Jewish year and the last of the 10 days of repentance that begins with Rosh Hashanah.
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Sukkot
The only festival with an explicit commandment to rejoice, Sukkot is for giving thanks for the fall harvest and commemorates 40 years of Jews wandering in the desert after the giving of the Torah. Celebrated five days after Yom Kippur.
Are you building a sukkah at home and have room to welcome other congregants? Would you like to be welcomed into another’s sukkah? Complete this form to let us know that you are interested and we will match you up with another congregant family.
Simchat Torah
A day after Sukkot, Simchat Torah celebrates the completion of the reading of the Torah and affirms the importance of Torah in our lives. Participate as the scrolls are taken from the ark and danced around our makom.
Chanukah
Celebrate miracles in history and in our lives, today. Take time to enjoy stories, songs, lights, and dreidels!
Tu B’Shevat
Considered the “New Year of the Trees,” and originally an agricultural festival to welcome spring, today it is a tree planting festival in Israel.
Purim
Experience the story of Purim from the Book of Esther, whose eponymous heroine saves her people. Hamantachen, gifts, costumes, humor, fun all around.
Passover
The festival of freedom. Celebrate the liberation of our ancestors from slavery and remember all who are still enslaved.
Yom Hashoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and includes a communal remembrance and educational programs.
Yom Ha’atzmaut
Israel Independence Day recognizes the establishment of the State of Israel when members of the “provisional government” read and signed a Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.
Watch Rabbi Saphire cook Yom Ha’atzmaut falafel waffles
Shavuot
Commemorate the spring harvest and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
Resources & Opportunities to Celebrate I URJ
Tisha B’Av
Observe the day of mourning for the calamities that have befallen the Jewish people over the ages.
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Stephanie Costello
Executive Assistant to the Clergy
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