Dear Kol Rinah Family,
READ TO THE END THIS WEEK--LOTS OF IMPORTANT DETAILS!!!
Deep breath. Rosh Hashanah is behind us. It's just Shabbat, Sunday, and Yom Kippur. (And then all of Sukkot!!!)
This is a holy time of year, a time, in fact, when we may want to hold ourselves to a higher religious standard than we usually do, as well as an even higher ethical standard. We still have some time--what would it look like to try on, or try out, beng a touch kinder, a touch gentler, a touch more loving, a touch more devout, as we finish this first week and head into the first shabbat of 5784? I'll say a bit more about this Friday night.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped to make Rosh Hashanah so lovely, and so smooth, last weekend here at Kol Rinah. It is a huge undertaking, and really a team effort.
My sermon from the first day of Rosh Hashanah is here, and from the second day is here.
We also had a lovely Tashlich Wednesday evening at Oak Knoll Park.
Tonight, we'll have an a cappella kabbalat Shabbat (the only full kabbalat Shabbat over a stretch of four weeks--none last week, or the next two weeks!) at 6pm.
Candle lighting is at 6:41pm.
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shuva--"the sabbath of repentance." All those little notes in the prayer book that say "this is only recited on Shabbat Shuva," or "recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur"--this is the Shabbat to come and say them! It'll be a quiet, relatively short Shabbat morning service--just right for the first Shabbat of the year.
We'll start at 9am. Torah Talk, led by Joyce Olshan, will be at 10:15am.
Shabbat ends at 7:37pm.
Sunday night begins Yom Kippur. The fast begins at 6:38pm, and ends Monday at 7:33pm.
Mincha will be in the sanctuary Sunday at about 6:25pm. We'll start Kol Nidre in both rooms at 6:40pm.
The full schedule is here.
Here are a few reminders for you throughout Yom Kippur:
1. If you are coming in person, please bring (back) your nametag, and wear it. (We'll have extras, and we have lanyards.)
2. Complete service schedules are available here. Checking out different services is ok!
3. Parking is complicated! Please check details here, and allow extra time to park, especially Monday, when Clayton parking regulations will be in effect.
4. At 10:30am on Monday, Prof. Nancy Berg will be teaching in the 3rd floor alcove on: "Forgive, Forget, and Forego"
Judaism puts a high value on remembering; in this session, we will reassess the value of forgetting and its associates, forgiving and foregoing, through contemporary texts.
5. In addition to all the kids and family services, there will be a teen gathering on Monday in the courtyard at noon.
6. At 3:15pm, during "the break," Rabbi Scott Shafrin and Karen will lead a niggun circle. Come to sing or listen!
6. As a reminder, in addition to fasting, it is appropriate to abstain from wearing leather shoes and makeup, and to abstain from bathing and intimate relations. Some people wear white on Yom Kippur. If you cannot fast, do not fast! There are fantastic resources on https://www.amitzvahtoeat.org/ for those who cannot fast.
7. Livestreams of all indoor services will be available from our website.
8. Feel free to wear a mask, and we have some seating reserved for masks-only.
9. Please do not wear perfume or cologne, as some people are allergic, and get migraines!
10. Always feel free to bring an appropriate book to read at shul.
11. If you are volunteering or working at Kol Rinah on the holidays, be kind, be patient, be gentle, be appreciative. And if you see someone volunteering or working here, or if you see anyone here at all, be kind, be patient, be gentle, be appreciative!
12. Sukkot is coming right on the heels of Yom Kippur! The deadline for Brotherhood's (Veggie or) Steak and Scotch in the Sukkah (October 1) is today!!! Sign up too for Sisterhood's Supper in the Sukkah (10/3)! Sign up too for our Simchat Torah brunch kiddush (10/8). All the info for Sukkot is here.
Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom, and a Shana Tova uMetukah--a good and sweet year, and may you be written and sealed in the book of life!
See you in shul,
Rabbi Noah Arnow
ZOOM AND STREAMING LINKS
To join our Zoom Minyanim or classes, click on the desired meeting link, or call into either of the following numbers:
+1 312 626 6799
+1 646 558 8656
Then, when prompted, enter the Meeting ID of the desired minyan/class then press #. Then, when prompted, enter the password then press #.
Services (all times Central)
Evening Minyan on Zoom
Sunday-Thursday evenings at 6pm (but not on Jewish holidays)
Morning Minyan on Zoom
Monday-Wednesday and Friday mornings at 7am; Sunday mornings and national holidays at 8am (not including Jewish holidays)
(Please note that Thursday morning minyan is now being held in-person and is not on Zoom)
Friday nights and Shabbat mornings
Fridays, 6pm in the chapel (no streaming)
Saturdays, 9:00am (9:30am when we are doing our musical Kol Chadash service)
Click the link below, for the stream, as well as for additional instructions:
https://www.kolrinahstl.org/kr-streaming
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