Kol Nidre Service at Aliyah

should be over there today take it back [Music] thank you so [Music] so [Music] [Music] foreign hey we're going to get started ladies and gentlemen if you can find your seats we're going to get started with our choir and then we'll go live [Music] um [Music] on this evening of yokonedre eternal god who calls us to repentance we're grateful for the opportunity to answer your call to forsake our sins and to turn to you with all our hearts on this evening of cole nidre i ask any of you who are here tonight any of you who are at home to please forgive me if i have wronged you in any way please know that it was not intentional i ask you to forgive me because i want to be your rabbi if i walk by you in a hurry and i didn't say hello i am sorry if i said something in jest and i offended you or seemed insensitive or caused you embarrassment i am sorry if i didn't call you when you expected i apologize for any wrong i've committed i ask your forgiveness but if this public apology is not enough i want you to call me i want you to come in and sit down so we can reconcile i want the opportunity either explain what happened or to learn from you what i did wrong and to apologize in person i seek forgiveness so that we can be whole again as rabbi in congregation on this night of atonement we yearn to become better than we have been for you o lord have given us the great gift of atonement enabling individuals and communities to return to you and to do your will open our hearts the call of the sacred night so that the words of our prayers may remain with us to renew us to refine us may our deeds make us worthy to hear your divine assurance i have forgiven [Music] [Music] the call nidre service the one of the most sacred services we have those uh who are in the sanctuary are wearing a talit is the one time in the evening that we wear a talit it's part of the konidry process so if you're at home and you have a talit and you're not wearing it we encourage you to put it on and it makes a distinction of the sanctity of cole ninja to be able to feel this call that we make now you'll be able to uh follow in the pages of page 398 or page 204 in the rabbinical assembly moxor on page 204 by the authority of the heavenly courts by the authority of this earthly court with divine consent with the consent of this congregation we hereby declare it permissible to pray with those who have transgressed we rise to this time for cole nidre as we call up those who will be holding the torah scrolls at this time [Music] so [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Laughter] m [Music] little [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] m [Music] ah [Music] is [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] yom kippuri [Music] over [Music] [Music] [Applause] yeah your heart [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] [Music] sr [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] i [Music] me [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] know [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] remain standing please for the barclaw page 408 uh in the mock store that we have here or page 207 [Music] i [Music] m foreign [Music] you may be seated in the dash the one that we use here at temple aliyah you'll be able to follow along an english reading we'll do it responsibly on page 409 so you're here or if you're at the home and you have this reading you can respond as well as i begin praise are you lord our god ruler of the universe whose word brings on the dusk of evening the gates of dawn understanding regulates time the stars above follow their appointed rounds in response to your divine will you remove the day and bring on the night you separate one from the other may you rule over us as you rule over nature praise are you a lord who brings the evening dusk [Music] here's your party [Music] [Music] [Applause] him [Music] i learned once that we can learn something about people from the differences in how they ask us to pay attention to them some people will say look and then explain what they want you to pay attention to some people will say listen some people might say you see or some people would say hear me out and i've been told that sometimes we can tell what types of learners people are from the way they start those sentences the people who start with look or you see they might be more likely to be visual learners meaning they know that when they look and see something they are more likely to understand so they want you to do the same and for those who tend to start sentences with listen or hear me out they might be more likely to be auditory learners they want you to listen closely to what they have to say because they know that when they listen closely it helps them understand we all develop these different speech patterns but we don't always think about the style of learning and understanding of the person we're actually talking to just because we tend to understand things best in one way of course doesn't mean that's the best way to communicate with all others and in fact sometimes when we tell people to look and listen we might be doing the precise opposite of looking and listening ourselves we can be so concerned with being heard and being seen that we forget to truly hear and see the other when we say the shema we command the jewish people to listen listen israel adonai our god adonai is one we take on that role as messenger spreading god's word to everyone but do we stop and listen to do we take a look at ourselves and wonder when are the times when i have neglected to look and see what was in front of me when are the times when i have neglected to get quiet and listen to what was going on around me as we call on our fellow jews to listen let's hear our own call as well let's find the quiet space from which to listen listen israel followed by the shema page 412 and 208. 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[Music] i [Music] hello [Music] we continue on page 418 or 210 without [Music] [Music] ah [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] is we continue with hashkey venue page 420 or 211. so i say this every year but somehow it just really feels different because we're here together and we weren't last year and so i want to invite you to please sing with me this is an opportunity to share in a beautiful prayer written by craig taubman a beautiful lullaby asking god to shelter us with the wings of peace and we've been sheltered a lot let's just sing that beautiful prayer of shelter together as a community [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] see [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] you [Music] are [Music] hush [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] so nice to hear people singing together isn't it you at home i hear you hope you can feel the presence of uh the community with you and for us to be able to be there with you whether you're inside outside wherever you are to be part of a sacred community uh it is custom here at temple aliyah long before i arrived to actually uh cole nidre to uh be able to hear from our president just some words some acknowledgement a message and it's my honor to be able to call up debbie strom our fairly newly installed president who's going to share some words she's going to be by the way we have been very clear about adhering to the protocols for the covet in terms of people remaining masked except for clergy which by the way is part of the actual um protocols that clergy are allowed to be unmasked but you should know that we are tested uh weekly um and debbie strong who's gonna come forward and speak without a mask um was tested just hours ago um and uh is negative and so uh just want to make clear so there should be no misinterpretation of uh following our protocols uh debbie strom please good evening it's good to be here if you're here in the sanctuary welcome back if you're watching from home i hope we'll be seeing each other very soon over the last week i have been thinking about recent events in the newspaper headlines 20th anniversary of 9 11. hurricanes wildfires record heat climate change afghanistan election and of course pandemic and then this last weekend i was reading the jewish journal i was so excited to see it out there in the galleria it's only the second issue in print in almost a year and yes i do read newspapers and i do read the jewish journal in print words kept jumping out at me as i read remember rearrange rebuild recall refugees reform resume respond and of course words for these days of awe reflect regret refrain resolve and return did you notice that all of these words start with the letters r e i got curious so i googled the prefix re and i found out that the english language has thousands of words that begin with this prefix in fact while preparing my words for these remarks i found it's almost impossible to eliminate words that start with re then i found a website with lessons for english learners it defined the prefix re as meaning either again or back or else it's an indicator of repetition how amazing is it that we have so many words that allow us to convey that we are either looking back or that we are going to be doing something again either alone or together do we look back simply to remember or is it so we understand what's already happened or do we look back so that we can try to do something different or better the next time maybe sometimes we dwell in the past with regret but other times we are actually looking into the future with hope and purpose remember last year when our physical synagogue was virtually shut down and we participated in the high holy days online as our clergy held services in an empty sanctuary some of us came in our cars for the closest we could get to an in-person service car nidre and also a parking lot show for our service did you anticipate then that we would spend another passover on zoom or continue attending online shabbat services virtual kiddush lunches virtual programs and zoom classes for as many months as we did i for one most certainly did not anticipate that did you anticipate when you postponed your simcas that your celebrations would still not be what you expected almost a year later so one word that doesn't start with re and became very popular is the word pivot from going virtual opening in person to returning to virtual to opening back up again in person boyd at alia pivot clergy professional staff school directors teachers and maintenance staff worked thousands of hours with grace and professionalism and they made it look effortless to the rest of us member volunteers including your board and the kobit committee spent countless hours continuing to make sure all aos stayed healthy and strong and that everyone on campus from preschoolers to staff to those of us attending programs and services also stayed safe volunteers from the community of caring helped keep our community connected i am only sorry that there are too many names to mention in the short time that i've been allotted these last few months have set the tone for a few of my favorite words beginning with re reimagine return renew after a successful if scaled down preschool year in summer camp ece has already begun the year in full force enrollment in baby and me is open to the community for classes beginning in october religious school is returning in person with a fresh look the severance center has partnered with our neighbors at shonri torah in the jewish learning cooperative for children in grades k through six aliyah and shomri have also launched a new program for families with children in tk through second grade called bagel belong gather and learn this monthly program reaches beyond our synagogues and is open to all jewish families in the wider community and the first family gatherings have already taken place and received great reviews and i don't know if you saw them when you came in but there's banners outside for the nook on valley circle this is another new partnership and will offer a full day infant and toddler day care center for the west valley community along with classes for their parents and grandparents reimagine return renew lounge nights in person events for teens have returned with the assistance of some highly motivated participants rabbi galco created a thriving 20s and 30s group which meets regularly outside of the walls of aliyah i'm sure this program wasn't exactly how rabbi gacco first envisioned it becoming virtual within months but this group is meeting again now in person still thriving tnc the volunteer-driven group for adults who have already raised their children return from virtual to in-person events men's club and women of aliyah we welcomed you to their activities online and they welcome you again in person adult education opportunities were abundant on zoom throughout the past many months with many of us finding that it was easy to participate we didn't have to leave the house we didn't even have to be local to the synagogue area so watch for more learning opportunities both virtual and in person reimagine return renew so we all know the many ways aliyah is here for us in fact aliyah is in its 60th year i'm sure you notice that we are asking you for to tell your alias story as part of our celebration of shared history and community i am not going to tell you a story but i am going to share a few aliyah moments many of you know that my husband stan's parents were at the forefront of creating a new conservative shul in the west valley and he became the very first bar mitzvah when aliyah was only a couple of years old way before we had a building of our own so you might say stan and his family experienced one of the first aliyah moments fast forward many years and we joined as a family two years ahead of rabbi vogel's arrival on one of our first encounters with him we explained how we wanted to attend family services but our children were too loud and fidgety and we really didn't feel welcome at a family service rabbi vogel said that's okay have them bring a book and read my kids do that and we found out indeed we were welcome a few years later when we were going through what seemed to be a crisis at that time rabbi vogel approached us out of the blue when we were here out in the courtyard and said you should make an appointment to see me to this day i still don't know how he knew that we should make an appointment to see him so my family has had many aliyah moments since then and not just rabbi vogel moments but these many moments inspired me to give my time and hopefully my talents to aliyah i and i invite you to share your wisdom your time and your talents with aliyah reimagine return renew on this yom kippur i wish you all a meaningful and easy fast gemar khatima tovah may you be sealed in the book of life for good thank you divya it's beautiful we'll talk a little bit more tomorrow about alias stories but that was uh that was your alias story was beautiful we'll continue with the hatsi kaddish please page 422 or page 212. [Music] [Music] i [Music] is [Music] is [Music] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh man [Music] the amidah that we have at khalid will we will have through all of the day tomorrow of yom kippur includes the ashamu the alhet says reminder as you go through when we do it in a moment silently you'll be striking your chest on each of those acknowledgments of the asham and of the before we enter into our private meditations and our prayers i'm going to invite you to rise and we have this meditation at the beginning of arunais please open my lips my mouth may declare your praise you'll find the amidah beginning either page 424 or page 213. [Music] [Music] that my mouth [Music] [Music] [Music] begin our private personal prayers of the amidah [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] he's done [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] my children [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] on page 446 or page 223 means to elevate to rise up and each of these stanza begins with the word ya'ale by the way during the kaddish for example we emphasize that notion of elevating and the idea is that we should elevate ourselves to almost to the heavens and to try and be as angels if we can in terms of being at one with god and purity of this day of yom kippur in particular we're going to rise please as the ark is opened and uh we're going to share ya'ala yala you'll be able to follow the first two stanzas the last two sentences and we're going to have a video that's going to lead us through and join along with yala with your home or here you'll join together [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] r [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] we remain standing as the ark is closed 454 and 232 [Music] [Music] is [Music] me [Music] [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] um [Music] again [Music] [Music] [Music] you may be seated when andrew now 31 years old first moved to la three years ago he wanted to find a jewish community so he wandered into a synagogue realized that he was 30 years younger than everyone else in the sanctuary but still sat down in the back no one came up to talk to him he listened to the announcements at the end of the service to hear if there were any events coming up for people in their 20s and 30s but he heard nothing he waited around after the service into kiddush thinking maybe then someone would welcome him someone would notice that he seemed to be new maybe someone would tell him where all the young people were but people stuck to their usual friends and he left without finding the jewish community he was looking for so the following week andrew tried a different synagogue but the result was the same again and again he found himself in synagogues that did not seem to be for him they seemed to be for people at a different life stage and they didn't seem particularly interested in finding a place for him can you help us understand our millennial children and what you were really asking me is judaism's important to me how do i pass it down to the next generation le dour vador this question about millennials is one i've thought about often what makes us tick what gets us involved what do we want out of judaism and what should judaism demand from us to answer these questions i interviewed a group of nine la jews in their 20s and 30s running the gamut in terms of their level of jewish involvement now i should mention these were nine people who were all interested in having this conversation with me so they have at least some affinity for jewish community or connection to temple aliyah even if it's minimal so after nine interviews two years of building three different 20s and 30s groups here at aliyah and of course a lifetime of being a millennial jew myself i am finally ready to share my thoughts so here it is what millennials want you to know about the future of jewish community so millennials currently defined as people who are around age 25 to 40 are unique in a few key ways first we tend to be very comfortable with and have great access to technology and social media this means we can easily reach lots of people at once but sometimes as i think we've all learned over the past year and a half in this pandemic that access can come at the expense of creating real intimate in-person connections we've also been trained to have a somewhat short attention span there's a reason that tick-tocks and instagram reels are very short and these short attention spans fit well into our go go go lifestyles always feeling too busy having trouble slowing down on the one hand that means that we feel like we never have enough time to be involved in a synagogue and on the other hand we desperately need a spiritual component of our lives to remind us to slow down and build personal relationships on top of all that jewish millennials are more integrated into the secular world than any generation before us as each of the past few generations has been accepted by society more than the previous one at least here in the u.s so in talking with these nine people the message i heard over and over again is that what we want is community we want to be part of a community of people who share something in common whether it's a common belief system or common traditions and customs a community that loves and supports one another there's a famous line in pirkeia vote a compilation of ethical teachings from around 200 ce al tifrosh mean hatseybour do not separate yourself from the community this is part of the basis for communal prayer and why a jew is not supposed to live in isolation and millennials are taking this seriously each of these nine young adults i spoke with emphasized again and again that community is the foundation of what judaism means to them and yet the other statement i heard repeatedly is people our age just don't go 20s and 30s feel that no one our age attends synagogue services or programs of course not everyone wants to go as is the case at any age but some people genuinely do and part of what's holding them back is knowing that other 20s and 30s won't be there it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem if i go no one else my age will be there so no 20s and 30s show up at all a 32 year old woman told me that her ideal jewish community is one that she would look forward to going to because it would be a chance to catch up with her friends where she would feel that that is where community is happening maybe they would go to synagogue and then go to a nearby park for a picnic she told me she doesn't typically go to shabbat services now but she knows that if shabbat services were a social community for her she'd be happy to make it part of her life but the reality is that there is a perception that a synagogue is not the place for us that there's nothing here for us that there's programming for every other stage of life but not us a few people i spoke with told me that they believe there's a bit of a misunderstanding about why we're not showing up they said it's not because we're millennials it's not because we're some new special type of generation that has no interest in judaism it's because we're at an in-between age in between life stages that synagogues tend to focus on we're not children attending religious school or coming to synagogue with our parents and we're also not yet parents ourselves bringing our own kids to preschool especially since our generation is having kids later this life stage means that we have independence in a way that no other generation has right now so we don't necessarily feel external pulls to be connected to jewish community perhaps this has always been the case perhaps every generation has worried about the 20s and 30s and whether they will stay jewishly involved but the reality is that this in-between life stage is precisely when we rely on community the most now this wouldn't really be a sermon about millennials if i didn't mention the tv show friends and of course i watched the friends reunion special several months back and i was struck by the show's creator's statement that the show is about the time in your life when your friends are your family it's a show about a group of friends in precisely this in-between stage of life in between being children and being partnered off or being parents entering that next stage because that's the time in life when we rely most on having a tight-knit community and yet that seems to be the life stage the traditional synagogues are not catering to altifrosh mean hatseybour millennials do not want to separate ourselves from community we know that community is how we will be loved and supported during this in-between time in our lives but even though we want to be supported and loved in community the next major point i heard from almost all of the 20s and 30s i interviewed is that we don't only want to be loved and supported we also want to be challenged we want to feel totally comfortable in a jewish community but once we're comfortable once we know we have the community's full support and love we want to be pushed we want to be pushed with new interpretations and new ways of thinking new perspectives on family life on jewish life new ways to understand the world around us outside the jewish community we want to learn new melodies and new rituals we want to meet new people from different backgrounds first we need to be comfortable but then we want to expand beyond our comfort zones one important way that we can provide comfort is to eliminate the shame around varying degrees of jewish backgrounds and knowledge and observance i have found that people constantly feel the need to qualify their beliefs and practices by admitting that they are not an expert in judaism so many young people say to me with shame i'm not that good at reading hebrew or i don't remember all the torah stories or sometimes i'm not sure when i'm supposed to sit or stand or bow during services everyone feels that they don't know enough and then we can't be comfortable to be pushed outside of our comfort zones because we're so worried about not embarrassing ourselves we haven't been able to establish a baseline level of comfort within the community i want millennials and everyone to know that whatever they know or don't know whatever they practice or don't practice whatever they remember or don't remember that's okay and they can still be an integral part of our community and then i want to push them to learn something new to push themselves to learn something new or try a new ritual only once they feel comfortable abraham joshua heschel one of the leading jewish philosophers of the 20th century applied the famous quote about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable to judaism by asserting that prophets are tasked with leading jews in this way i have this quote on a piece of artwork hanging in my office actually because even though we're not prophets we have that very same job today in jewish community we have to comfort those who are afflicted and we have to afflict those who are comfortable we have to push to expand our comfort zones i worry that when we think about programming for millennials we only think about the comfort piece and we forget that young people too want to be pushed to explore in fact when we're only comfortable community can become boring afflicting the comfortable as heschel put it is part of what keeps jewish community exciting and compelling i want to share one more overarching finding from my interviews millennials like to be counted upon we know that our generation has a reputation for being flaky as we say not showing up when we say we will or maybe not wanting to make commitments but the reality is that we appreciate being counted upon a number of people told me that they know that they personally can be a little flaky they get invited to a birthday party and they never really rsvp and then that night comes around and they maybe they go maybe they decide if they got a better offer and we recognize millennials recognize that that behavior is annoying and they'd actually prefer to be held accountable if instead of just an invitation to the birthday party they're asked to come early and help set up or to pick up the birthday cake they show up and we millennials like that we like knowing that others are counting on us and that we can make a difference we don't want to be assigned accountability though outside of an emergency it needs to be a role or a task that we're genuinely aligned with and when it is we really do want to be counted upon in the context of jewish community i can think of at least three ways that that happens the most obvious is through leadership roles like serving on a committee serving on the board or even just being assigned a particular specific task the second way to build accountability is through small groups when we break large communities into smaller groups like achavara for example not only do we help people develop those tight-knit relationships we're looking for but we also make everyone feel accountable for showing up because people will notice if we're not there the third way ultimately is when millennials become parents who want their kids to learn about judaism and experience jewish community this is another way that people feel responsible to get involved and many millennials are not yet in that third category but it doesn't mean we can't find accountability through leadership roles small groups or in other ways we want a close community that includes us that supports us and pushes us and that invites us to be counted upon within that community people have all different interests just like in any other generation some people enjoy traditional prayer services some people connect through social experiences like playing on the synagogue softball team some people want intellectual discussion groups some people want to focus on social activism several people i spoke with told me how important music is in an ideal jewish community many of them mentioned how important it is to them that their community be egalitarian welcoming to interfaith families and welcoming to people of any race gender and sexuality they told me that when people feel uttered they will be turned off and so will their friends and family several people also mentioned wanting more education about israel they feel that they're constantly being asked questions about israel especially from their non-jewish friends and they feel they don't know enough so our interests are broad but what we have in common is a desire for a close community that includes 20s and 30s that supports and pushes us and that invites us to be counted upon so why discuss this on cole nidre connie dre means all vows it's our moment to walk back the vows we made to god over the course of the year that we couldn't keep but cole nidre does not nullify vows between people in fact this time of year is when we get serious about honoring our past commitments and making new ones that will strengthen our relationships and our community so while we nullify vows between ourselves and god what are the vows we are going to make right now to our community will we vow to welcome newcomers will we vow to make millennials and anyone else who walks through our doors feel comfortable welcomed at home in our space will we vow to create the kind of community where someone like 31 year old andrew doesn't leave thinking this really isn't for me will we push ourselves out of our comfort zones so that others feel like they can do the same even when we're not sure we know enough will we invite people in their 20s and 30s to be counted on as leaders in our community emphasizing how important they are to us i know that the future of the jewish community is important to all of you otherwise you wouldn't be here tonight or you wouldn't be watching on live stream so make one of these commitments to yourself for the new year 5782 i might be biased but i think that millennials have a lot to contribute to the jewish world when we're given the chance and we want to be given that chance we want to take responsibility we want to support and comfort one another we want to challenge one another and most of all we want to be part of a close and loving community that includes us and our peers it is my prayer this high holy day season that the andrews of the world the 20-something and 30-something seekers find their way here and that when they do we are ready and waiting to embrace them we'll continue now we'll invite you to rise as the ark is open page 458 or 233 we invite you to enjoy this video of shemakolenu and hashi venue [Music] me [Music] hear our voice o lord our god spare us pity us accept our prayer in your gracious love in your gracious [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] video [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] mmm [Music] i don't know [Music] [Music] we remain standing as the ark is closed page 460 or 234 kiana hello [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] page 462 our page 235 the asham news from aleph to top we think of those deeds that we fall short of our sins in which we need to improve uh shamu each time we'll repeat after the hazan striking our chests [Music] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] what's new [Music] she knew [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Music] i [Music] remain standing either page 467 or page 237 the ahrefs um if you have the rabbinical assembly version that's going to be a little bit different the way that we do it here is hazan will uh start us with the archangel fanecha and then we're going to continue we'll share and read together um the the english itself so uh let's uh let's start off okay publicly and privately foreign i'm desecrating your name [Music] [Music] eating and drinking [Music] [Music] i hatred of values [Music] i [Music] [Music] remain standing as the ark is open page 472 or page 243 avinu volcano [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] together [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] hey [Music] this should be seated for a moment if you like for the kadisha land page 476 for page 245. 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[Music] [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] you may be seated on page 484 page 248 recited during the month prior to uh russia shannan through these uh yami morini's high holy days psalm 27 be shared we'll join along with the video please [Music] lululemon [Music] me [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] the page 482 or page 247 all who are in need of desire of reciting the mourners kaddish we join together whether you're here in the sanctuary or at home you can rise as well as we join together amen [Music] [Music] [Music] establish us peace in the heavens grant peace and harmony for us for all of israel and all of humanity as we say amen you may be seated i have some announcements and then i'll finish with a story and then we'll do a little bit of a donal and get ourselves ready for yom kippur reminder uh for everyone uh about the picture frame that we sent home by the way as part of the high holy day experience for those of you here or not here hopefully at rosh hashanah you had people in that frame who weren't able to share it with you we'd love you to put in that picture for tomorrow especially a picture of somebody that you are going to remember when we recite yisker or somebody that you just who's passed away and you still feel their presence and you can put them by the tv or wherever you want so that's uh the picture frame minha neila and havdala as a reminder is going to be all by live streaming tomorrow we're going to have some people here very small group reading tour and other things for minha we'll have a minion but everyone else will stay home and we'll be doing it by live streaming for those of you who are here in person by the way if you're not coming back tomorrow and you would like to borrow the mocks or i use that word very carefully borrow that moxor and those of you at home who have them we need them back eventually otherwise next year god willing you're going to be here and go i don't have a book and we're going to say they're home with the other hundred people that you have from temple aliyah just look in the drawer so we need them back but you can take them home at the top of the stairs there'll be a way to check them out only if you're not coming back tomorrow if you have not returned with your silva the food you can do that tomorrow as well and you can drop it off in the parking lot uh important and as a reminder uh tomorrow the uh afternoon study sessions will all be by zoom last year it was great we were had lots of people who came more so than we would if we were in person and so we want you to you'll find out tomorrow we'll announce them it's in the publicity but we'll put it on the screen for those people who are at home as well then um you'll be able to join us including at the end rabbi galco and i are going to do um ask the rabbi and you can ask rabbi alco anything you like about being a millennial she'll tell you all about that help me understand my kid will you please and that could turn into a whole hour itself um it's been so remarkable to be here together to feel the holiness this day to feel the potential of change uh do you have sometimes a challenge changing like you just seem to do the same thing over and over so it's a story of a two uh two guys who love to go moose hunting they go every year into the back country of canada and they take a private little plane and they fly in and they go moose hunting and they uh so this year they went and they bagged two great big moose again and they call like they radioed in for the pilot they came in in the little field the plane came and landed this tiny little plane and the pilot looked at the at the uh two animals that they had bagged and he said there's no way we're just not going to put them in this plane because we're never going to make it they say what do you mean like of course we can't we like work so hard for these animals you've got to take them because no it's just not going to happen because look last year the pilot we did the same thing and they didn't give us a problem he put him in the plane and they argued back and forth and finally the pilot relented he realized he wasn't going to win this argument so they put the animals in they take off in the plane and sure enough within about three minutes right the plane hits the side of the mountain right and just crashes and as they're getting out of the wreckage one of the guys says you know geez you know where are we and his friend responded to him he looks around he says you know i think we're about a mile further than we got last year you know do you do the same thing over and over sometimes and just wonder like why didn't it work you know by the way serious notes relationships with people do you do the same thing over and over and i always ask people when they come into my office they'll tell me about a conflict or something and i'll say does it surprise you has it ever worked before they go no i go why would you think it's going to work this time right so how do we change what are the things in our lives that we need to what are the relationships what is it about ourselves do we need to wake up and say it's time to change that's what yom kippur is really about hitting at home let's uh conclude our service uh for tonight with adonolam i'm going to watch you all to rise whether you're home or whether you're here you're going to find it page 488 or page 249 we'll do the first two stanzas and the last two stanzas let's hear you all and at home i want to hear you as well here we go [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] everybody [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] hey [Music] you

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