Dear Kol Rinah Family,
FOMO is a terrible thing. ("Fear of missing out," if you're not familiar.)
I had severe FOMO over Rosh Hashanah. I really wanted to be hanging out with the tots in the courtyard, with Karen Kern.
I also wanted to be singing with Rabbi Brad Horwitz, Gavriel Savit-Woods, Will Soll and Jeremy Shanas and all the people in the Staenberg Family Community Hall.
When teens were gathering, led by Cindy Kalachek, I wanted to stay and schmooze with them, and hear their reflections on this new year.
Nancy Berg's teaching on silence and poetry I know would have nourished my soul and quieted my FOMO.
My relationships would have improved if I had sat with Fannie Bialek and the learners with her studying enacting teshuvah in relationships.
I would have loved being with so many of our families in the courtyard for the family service, led again by Karen Kern, with help from some teens.
Sitting out with the greeters would have been delightful, saying hi to everyone as they came in, seeing familiar and new faces.
Hanging out in the hallway with our executive director, Stacey Hudson, who made sure everything was going smoothly, smiling to each other as we saw everything happening on schedule, would have been delightful as well.
This is all to say, Rosh Hashanah was beautiful, and smooth, and lovely, and I wanted to be at every place/moment of it.
Thank you to everyone who had a hand in helping us welcome 5786.
My sermons from the first day of Rosh Hashanah and the second day of Rosh Hashanah are online now.
Per my sermon from the first day of Rosh Hashanah, if you are interested in being a part of some learning about how to how conversations across difference, please respond to this email.
Look for another email on Tuesday or Wednesday with all the Yom Kippur details. But now, on to Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. All those little notes in the small print in the siddur, "On Shabbat Shuvah we add," are for this Shabbat.
Tonight Kabbalat Shabbat (no instruments) will be at 6pm.
Candle lighting is 6:34pm.
Tomorrow, services start at 9am, and Torah Talk with Joyce Olshan will be at about 10:10am.
Shabbat ends at 7:29pm.
Sunday at 10am at Oak Knoll Park, we'll have Tashlich, where we symbolically cast off our sins into the water. The entire community is invited. Right after Tashlicih, KoREH will meet outside at the park, and I'll be teaching a class for KoREH parents and others who lingering.
Yom Kippur is Wednesday night and Thursday October 1 and 2. All the High Holiday details are on the website here.
Right after Yom Kippur comes Sukkot (well almost--it begins Monday night, October 6.) The ful Sukkot (and holiday) service schedule is here.
Friday afternoon, October 3 from 3-5pm, families with littler kids are welcome to come help decorate our Sukkah. Details and signup here.
It's time to sign up for Sisterhood's Supper in the Sukkah, Friday night October 10. The deadline is noon on Monday, October 6.
The same deadline applies for Brotherhood's Steak and Scotch in the Sukkah Sunday evening October 12.
Let us not forget about the hostages, who have been in captivity now for 721 days, amidst the ongoing war in Gaza, where civilians continue to suffer.
May the one who makes peace in the heavens make peace over us, and over all Israel, and over all who dwell in the world.
Shabbat shalom and 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 at 7am (8am on national holidays) 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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Phone: 314-727-1747