HIGH HOLY DAYS AT IKAR

Not interested in counting pages and watching the clock while sitting through interminable High Holy Day services again this year?

Celebration of the Jewish High Holy Days (Yamim Noraim - Days of Awe) can be deeply engaging and profoundly meaningful. Each year we are given the gift of time to reflect seriously on who we have become, and dream once again about who we can be. We engage in heshbon hanefesh - intensive self reflection, and teshuvah - serious, sincere return, as we work to refine ourselves and repair broken relationships. We connect and reconnect with the best of ourselves, our family members, our friends, and God. We rediscover a renewed sense of meaning and mission in our lives and in the world.

IKAR has established a High Holy Day tradition that challenges preconceptions about pro-forma and performance-oriented services, instead creating a participatory, communal davening experience that is at once traditional and irreverent, joyous and soulful, healing and transformative. We will pray, dance, study and sing through the liturgy of the High Holy Days, and hopefully surprise ourselves with what we are able to accomplish together.

As with all IKAR events, our High Holy Day services are both traditional and accessible, designed to be welcoming to all, regardless of Hebrew background or knowledge of traditional liturgy. Our goal is to create a service in which you need to leave neither your head nor your heart at the door. We dwell at the intersection of the individual, God and the world, and search there for the connection between the intellect the spirit, and the self.