Rosh Hashanah First Day Adult Service

me giving of my heart completely have i been caring and have i been patient have i forgiven without reservation [Music] do i take my days for granted treated others even handed and shown compassion to the homeless stranger have i been humble before my creator [Music] they all look [Music] they [Music] have i tread lightly on the planet have i held fast to your commandment and have i raised my voice against injustice have i been giving or have i been selfish [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] and then when wholeness and peace are restored and then [Music] remembering what all life is for [Music] in awe and afraid taking stock of our day healed by forgiveness and love we pray a time will come as we return to the one that we can become truly one [Music] and then when wholeness and peace are restored [Music] and then remembering what all life is for when reverence for life is the prayer that unites all people as one family remembering our light a spark of the divine in ourselves and in all living beings [Music] then and then just the sound of it gives wings to hope lays fear to rest to feel the open wings of possibility and then [Music] imagine [Music] oh [Music] wholeness and peace are restored [Music] and then and then [Music] remembering what our life is for [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] hi temple emmanuel wishing you all a fabulous new year and here's to good health and happiness and the rest of 2021 and introducing a laura bright crow who made her debut this year on june 28th at 7 11 p.m welcome laura bright crowd anything to say no okay bye everyone bye happy new year may this year be filled with hope as we carry out the work of rebuilding our community next year in beverly hills from our family to yours may this year be a sweet one for you and your family as well from the farmland [Music] hi this is stash goldman and i'm here on behalf of my parents david goldman and myra lurie and my brothers max and zach we all wish you a wonderful new year a chana tova filled with sweetness good health love and peace because gail and mike fiore wishing you a sweet new year a year full of meaning and joy lashana tovah and warmest wishes for the healthiest happiest and most peaceful new year happy new year everyone happy new year from walton like to wish everybody a happy healthy and sweet new year from aaron oren aiden and grandma sean wishing you a sweet beautiful blissful new year happy new year happy new year we wish you peace love and happiness all year long from delilah to mom and dad and grandma may this year be a blessing to you all amen wishing you a year of peace blessings and good health [Music] from nancy drobnis and jeff levine wishing you and your family a good and sweet year lesson we wish you a sweet amazing um [Music] may you have a sweet and healthy and happy new year hi i'm mayra lurie and david goldman and we want to wish all of you a happy new year filled with good health love sweetness and peace hello temple emmanuel it's the velik family for sanatova happy new year 2021 let's all be together live very soon right away thank you [Music] to everyone may it be a healthy and a blessed and a happy new year happy new year may this year be filled with happiness joy and good health for all amen [Music] may this be a year of goodness and sweetness and peace happy healthy new year for everyone hello from the eichenstein family hello my name is david shapiro the president of the temple youth group here at temple manual beverly hills from the tempti board to you happy new year to our temple [Music] everybody happy new year during these crazy times we hope you're all safe and healthy and we wish you the happiest new year digitally lashana tova may you have a healthy and sweet new year and may we all pray together in the synagogue next year have a happy and healthy new year from the green family may this year be a year of happiness and blue go blue go blue la tova may you all have the sweet and safe here we want to wish you a sweet and healthy healthy and happy new year and we wish that your families and your extended families are all healthy and can be happy together very soon happy new year from riddell [Music] happy new year young family davis wishing you a year of health and serenity may it be a very peaceful year may this new year be filled with health and happiness for you and your family lisana tova made the new year bring you peace joy and excellent health sanato may this be a year when we move from all the narrow places in our lives and in the world toward expansiveness [Music] happy [Music] i just want to wish you a happy new year and we hope it's filled with lots of apples and honey bye we'd like to wish everyone shana to value a really sweet and wonderful new year full of blessing and health and joy shana tova tikka tevu may this be a sweet year may it be a good year and may we be together next year shanatova to everyone my wish this year is that we have health safety that we're enlightened filled with love find joy and come out of this [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] we are [Music] me [Music] open space [Music] [Music] [Applause] straight [Music] when you're having a day and you're feeling like you're fading away just [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wide open space [Music] [Music] place [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] let us [Music] everyone um just want to welcome you here we're vaccinated we're negative tested and we are ready to begin our service with you baruch blessed are you as you arrive here today again for the second straight year online on screens we're on this bmw without all of you sharing the sanctuary with us this year we really hope to be together the covet virus that kept us all penned up in our homes over the last 18 months making our lives more narrow and separated from the community was receding from view we were going out into the world open into open spaces to share our lives once again with each other of course we are in a much better place than we were in many ways and that's why we're encouraging you to join with others to watch this service in a safe way but here we are in the high holy days the time of year where we feel each other's presence to help each other to pray and hope and dream of a better future we're separated from each other this year we call out to god from the narrow place praying for an opening and opening into the widest expanse and opening into the world we do that by joining together as a jewish community expressing the ancient words of our tradition to take stock of who we were last year and who we can be moving into the year 5782 we begin our service with matavu it's on page 110 you can also see the pages in the bottom corner [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] we [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] we have a blessing in jewish tradition for encountering someone different than ourselves where we bless god who meschane habriot who diversifies creation our tradition encourages us to relish the differences among us to see them to learn from them be they differences in gender or culture or age this year as part of our prayer we are sharing the wisdom gained from congregants learning from each other congregants from different backgrounds and eras eager to gain new perspective on the torah of life tuning into the wisdom of difference is an exercise not unlike that of hearing the shofar the call is there but we have to be open to hearing its message for it to work as you hear conversations between congregants today in our service we hope that they will be their own kind of shofar offering new insights that may shed light on something in your own life we begin by listening into the end of a conversation between congregants eric brook and jerry factor who spent an hour with each other talking about life and at the end they shared these reflections just hearing from jerry how he's been able to maintain such a i think civic-minded view of the world and and a lens for social justice without having that shed as you know he's gone through life experiences i think one thing i often worry about myself is that you know i feel everybody at a young age is rather liberal and rather civic minded and caring about their neighbor and it's just really interesting and wonderful to see that you can have life experiences and move forward with while still maintaining that view of you know helping humanity the the biggest reflection has to do with my grandkids that that my wife and i are both concerned about their welfare and how their uh entry into life is going and eric reassures me that that the kids everybody's a kid to me but there's ambition there's future and and a sense of comfort within our society being able to cope with it our grandkids are fairly optimistic and eric is also so many days our time slips away from us with us looking back and not knowing where it went imagine if more hours were spent in conversation conversations like these like calls of the shofar to refocus our purpose and our drive baruch blessed are you adonai who gives wisdom to all flesh and blood blessed are you adonai who diversifies creation we sound the shofar please rise in body or in spirit [Music] r [Music] tequila [Music] blessed is the soul-reaching sound of the shofar it proclaims the purpose of this day blessed is community source of joy solace and strength to every living soul you may be seated we turn now to hamelech page 138. [Music] is [Music] [Music] teach [Music] so [Music] please rise in body or spirit for the baraku 142 [Music] oh [Music] you may be seated this time of the service i always think back on rabbi meyer heller the longtime rabbi of temple emanuel who no matter what his age was he would come out and he would dance to this prayer in the service i feel you now with us rabbi heller we continue with vaha erenainu [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] my close our eyes and we tie ourselves to all creation to the fabric of life as we sing shema is [Music] [Music] [Music] we continue now with michael moja [Music] oh [Music] m [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] wrong [Music] as often as we pray or seek out spiritual moments whether daily weekly or annually it doesn't always mean that we really get there that we can tap into that place of vulnerability and searching and angst when those moments happen that take us to another place it feels special as congregants dorothy salkin and lisette curtis share i don't know i think my vet dean was really beautiful i think i went into that moment with so much nerve and um or nervousness and the way everyone guided me through the process and the questions and everything just kind of reaffirmed why i'm here and why i chose this path for myself i remember on yom kippur there was a time and i never experienced this where the congregation is invited to go up to the bhima and spend a few moments with the torah i've carried the torah but i've never done that and as i walked up and touched the torah i began to cry and it was a very meaningful moment and rabbi aaron happened to be standing there and he saw the emotion that i was going through and he patted my shoulder as those saying it's okay dorothy it's all right things are good um i all i think of that as a very defining moment in my life i then and i'd equate it with the day i was married the day that the twin grandchildren were born the day that my two children was were born and and that moment at the end of the with the torah will always be in my heart we cannot expect such moments to happen every time we pray or meditate but when we dedicate the time and the space for them we allow for the possibility of transformation as we prepare for the amidah our time to lay our souls bare let us make the effort today to strip away the self-consciousness to tap into our innermost yearnings to overcome our hardships and our shortcomings our grudges and our cynicism to maybe just maybe find that pure place of connection of goodness and of hope i want to invite our ark openers rochelle and richard mays we rise in body or in spirit to pray the amidah [Music] deep down [Music] i give [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] therefore [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] topic [Music] lovely oh [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] we pause at this moment in the liturgy to feel the immense nature of this day the intensity of this moment in the service after all of the praise after all the devotion and the gratitude after we've tied ourselves to our ancestors we arrive here now this is the moment the angels tremble because this is the moment of judgment everything that has been done has been done and written in the book of your life now is the time to answer for what you wrote it's a moment of awe and of dread for we do not know what is in store for us in the coming year only that what we did will have an effect on our future [Music] unit on [Music] [Music] kisses [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] peace [Music] lord [Music] right now we realize our mortality we recognize the truth that some of us who are participating in the service this year will not be with us next year a human being is susceptible to all sorts of dangers that can snatch the gift of life from us by understanding the truth of the nature of our limited existence we strive to come to a place of gratitude for our lives which are lent to us in this short time that we spend on the planet this past year has been filled with constant reminders of our vulnerability and our impermanence and as we move into the new year we must find a place where we acknowledge the threats in front of us and remain resolute to live to live fully knowing that this day this week month or year it could be our last it is in our nature to carry the fears we have with us but we must also carry in our souls the desire to experience all of the beauty and the love that we can knowing full well that it is full of perils and challenges each and every day [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me um [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] um [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] is oh but through return to the right path prayer and righteous giving we can transcend the harshness of the decree we continue now with kedusha [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] hello [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] our [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] thank god [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] i am [Music] [Laughter] [Music] you may be seated and so in your holiness give all creation the gift of awe turn our tear turn our fear into reverence let us be witnesses of wonder perceiving all nature as a prayer come alive we bow to the sovereignty of your strength and the primacy of your power we yearn for connection with all that lives doing your will with wholeness of hearts awe inspiring is your creation all encompassing your transcendent name we continue with [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i come on [Music] [Music] they are [Music] m [Music] you grant hope to those who see you and those who trust [Music] [Music] on your heels [Music] [Music] oh [Music] come on the shofar itself is a symbol of the movement from narrow to wide the shofar begins with a narrow opening at the mouthpiece and widens out at the end this symbolizes the process of progressing from a narrow consciousness with lack of insight to an expanded consciousness with a constant awareness of god's presence this year as well we move from the narrow awareness of our homes alone and expand our minds to take in the outer world as well this image is also hinted at in the rosh hashanah liturgy before the shofar sounding the congregation traditionally recites the verse from our theme from a narrow place i called god and god answered me with an expanded space as we hear the shofar calls this year let us all move from the narrow to the wide from that which constricts us from finding fulfillment to a place where we experience a widening of our existence in the world please rise in body or in spirit for alinu gadola [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] blessed are hearts that respond to the majestic music of the shofar blessed is the gift of life the power of renewal that brings us to this day source of blessing eternal our god you fill the universe with majestic might summoning us to hear the sound of the shofar tequila [Music] wow [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] please continue now with silent meditation be seated when you're ready [Music] [Music] all right anymore [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] it's all fleeting [Music] bed [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello [Music] hello [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] my [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] over the last couple of years my wife michelle has been performing her one one-woman show from baghdad to brooklyn where she juxtaposes the story of her bubby coming from poland to america with her father's journey from iraq to israel to america several times throughout this monologue dialogue a character says i don't know what to feel whenever i heard her say that line i don't know what to feel i i thought to myself how's that possible surely feelings come up you feel them that's what you feel and then the pandemic came and i have to admit there have been many times throughout when i thought to myself i don't know what to feel is it all right to express frustration am i supposed to be forlorn and upset about everything am i allowed to be happy to feel joy as i mind my way through this field of uncertain emotions one emotion seemed to take a front seat in my life while another that i was really used to faded into the background what emotion is riding shotgun with me anger and what is sitting in the way back of the station wagon like when i was a kid and we sat back there rolling around without seat belts joy especially the last several months and i would even say going back to the beginning of the calendar year it's been much easier to tap into my anger than my joy and i i don't think i'm alone dr david mo rose marin an assistant professor of psychology at harvard university told this story i was on a run the other day and someone yelled at me for wearing a mask in boston so i looked into it and they're actually right i'm running around a reservoir i'm away from everyone so the next day i think maybe i won't wear my mask today then i approached a lady i'm 20 feet away and i smile at her and she angrily yelled don't smile at me you're not wearing a mask you're taking a chance with my life so you can't win while we were recording our ark openings a couple of weeks ago i was talking with a congregant who is usually a very jovial person he loves laughing he loves joking around all the time and he said to me you know recently i've stopped feeling joy it's just not there i can relate nachman of brotheloft calls joy in routine times the most difficult of all spiritual endeavors and we've been in a pandemic for 18 months and we're still in it i feel like we're all tired and we're all angry is tangry a word i'm sure that every one of you has a story like our jogging professor in boston even on the receiving or the attacking end of that story we've been cooped up and now we're we're making our way out into the world arthur bregman a psychiatrist in coral gables florida coined a phrase to describe what we are going through right now cave syndrome he says people can't shake the anxiety they fear they feel fearful and insecure about the uncertainty of the situation i have people coming by saying i had trouble before i think i forgot how to do it i don't know how to socialize uncertainty fear anxiety and insecurity about how to be back in the world in a social context can certainly come out as anger the cave syndrome makes sense to me we're in a complete reversal from where we were 18 months ago the question then was how am i going to live my life time with my friends my family my work my play when i have to stay home and separate from everything that identifies me now it's how am i going to live my life time with my friends family work play after i've figured out all the rules and codes for living separately there is an incredible story from the talmud i'm sure there are many rabbis who are going to be telling this story on this rosh hashanah about the legendary rabbi bar yochai and his son rabbi elazar rabbi shimon is sentenced to death by the romans for disparaging rome in a public conversation and he reacts by hiding in the house of study where his wife would bring them food each day he goes with his son after a time they realize this is too dangerous it's too dangerous in the city so they fled and they hid in a cave up north you know it's kind of like us going from the suggestion to stay at home and then moving to that stay-at-home order so when they arrived they sealed the cave and miraculously a carob tree sprouts and a stream appeared so that they could eat and that they could drink and the carob tree also produced dates on shabbat so shabbat would be a lot sweeter so they studied and they meditated on the mysteries of torah in that cave where they would sit literally covered in sand to their necks naked and only dress for their prayers because they didn't want their clothes to wear out finally after 12 years 12 years elijah the prophet appears at the entrance of the cave and he says who will tell thee that the emperor died and he is safe to come out of the cave they emerged from seclusion and rabbi shimon and elazar walked towards the nearest town and they saw people farming the land and making a living rabbi shimon said these people have abandoned the eternal world of torah and they're engaged in mundane affairs of this world they became filled with such hot anger that whatever they gazed upon would immediately be consumed by fire a heavenly voice called out you came out of the cave to destroy the world go back in it they returned to the cave they studied for another 12 months and finally the heavenly voice returned and told them they could emerge from the cave rabbi eleazar continued to strike out at the people and rabbi shimon would heal them shimon calmed his son when he told him our torah is enough for the whole world then on the eve of shabbat they saw an older man hurrying along with two bundles of fragrant myrtles in his hand it's kind of like if you were to bring home flowers for shabbat rabbi shimon asked him what are you doing and he said i'm bringing the myrtles home in honor of shabbat rabbi ellazar asked him aren't two myrtles a little bit excessive and the man responded one is for remember the sabbath day and the other is for keep the sabbath day rabbi shimon looked at his son and he said see see how precious the mitzvot are to our people there is a lot in that story that we can unpack but i want to concentrate on the two moments that they came out of the cave before they entered the cave they studied day and night they studied torah day and night just like they did when they were in the cave but before that they also had teachers and students who studied alongside of them and prayed with them and they had families that they would return to at night to share meals and conversation and celebrations in the cave they spent every waking hour studying and meditating on torah or praying to god for them that was life and where one should direct all energy to the pursuit of torah learning and gaining a place in the world to come incidentally legend records that it was during this time in the cave that rabbi shimon learned all of the mystical secrets of the world and at that time created the zohar but it was in that mindset of torah study that they entered society they they weren't prepared for a new normal they weren't prepared to engage at all with other people they wanted everyone to be exactly how they saw the world from their cave where they lived for 12 years we were told for over a year that we shouldn't touch anything shouldn't go out of the house without a mask shouldn't get closer than six feet even in a mask we shouldn't socialize in groups we shouldn't be with anyone indoors because of this deadly virus about which little was known we know a lot more now but we in this time have honed our habits and defenses and codes and have lived by them for a year and a half why would we imagine that it would be easy to ease back into society fully priya parker who wrote the book the art of gathering told the new yorker magazine in an interview that we are all going through a phase she calls re-entry she considers the pandemic a transformational experience for all of us quote there's extraordinary anxiety in that phase and it's it's not illogical or irrational anxiety we ask ourselves practical questions do i wear a mask do i say yes to this invitation do i take my children somewhere if they aren't vaccinated all of the practical questions we have asked ourselves about entering back into society are actually philosophical and existential questions who are my people how do i want to spend my time unquote for rabbi shimon and elazar they definitely had answers to those questions who are my people the jewish people how do i want to spend my time studying and meditating on torah ironically after all that torah study they weren't spiritually ready to come back to the world when they saw people working living they immediately burned with anger and the anger consumed them and in turn everybody around them they were just angry that others didn't think and act like they did that was the moment the heavenly voice rang out and said go back to the cave until you're ready to come out the talmud seems to be saying to us the study of torah mustn't lead to anger and narrow thought it must lead towards compassion when rabbi shimon finally returns a year later he is a changed man eliezer salzburg writes that rabbi shimon finally understood that jewish practice is not about severing the material from the spiritual but rather about learning how to transition smoothly between these two vital elements of human existence now as a human being in relation to others the change in rabbi shimon was his approach to the world from two opposite perspectives from anger to compassion and dare i say from a narrow place to a wide open space francoise mere gay in an early history of compassion writes that the hebrew word compassion from the root recom has come to mean to designate a positive disposition towards others perhaps especially when they are vulnerable i know how difficult it is to have a positive dis disposition towards others as is the definition of rachel in this case the issues of our day and the conversations that accompany them can be infuriating i invite us to lean into the second part of this definition especially when they are vulnerable are we not all vulnerable every person in this world was and is still vulnerable have we not all experienced some form of cave syndrome are we not all in the throes of the re-enter phase are we not all the modern-day rabbi shimon and elazar now is the time to search inside of yourself how do you want to emerge from the cave angry because the people around you aren't exactly like you ready to burn everything down and still instead of build yourself up or can you acknowledge that you and i and and the person next to you is filled with uncertainty and anxiety or anger and every one of us is vulnerable and deserves to be treated with compassion if we don't move towards a compassionate dis disposition towards the people we encounter every day even those or especially those who aren't like us the world it cannot endure kenya watson we move now to our service and aveeno malcano there are pieces of ourselves we keep separate right our professional self from our goofy self who we are with our in-laws versus who we are with our friends we are multifaceted presenting different selves at different times in the tanakh god is never aveeno malcano our parent our ruler god is always one or the other it isn't until rabbi akiva comes along centuries later and prays to both of these parts of god as one pleading for rain he doesn't know whether to draw upon god's intimate love or ultimate power so he calls on both yes we present different parts of ourselves in different moments but there's also something powerful about being seen in our fullness our professionalism and goofiness our in-law good behavior and our let your hair down with your friends call so as we prepare ourselves for avinu malcano praying to god as a parent and as a ruler let us not limit limit god to any one thing but be open to all of it at once i welcome our ark openers winnie lou and nor noah greenwald you may rise in body or spirit [Music] merciful you alone [Music] [Music] the onslaught of sickness violence and hunger avenue avinu malacanang enter our names in the book of lives well lived avenue a year of goodness [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you may be seated you know our tradition warns against studying torah alone that our ability to unlock the lessons and truths within is enhanced by reflecting with another not just with the text itself so as our bene mitzvah students go through their studies they learn with clergy and with congregants and their prayers their sermon writing their a mitzvah project because we want them to understand that learning torah in a community is not just about unlocking the lessons in the text it's about unlocking something in themselves as we can see from this conversation between ethan rosenberg and his mentor eileen dardick who helped him not only create a meaningful bar mitzvah project that addressed homelessness in los angeles but also brought him in on the most inner workings of a prominent organization addressing homelessness in los angeles the organization path [Music] has anyone in your life been so kind to you that they've really made a difference for you i mean you treat me with respect and has a member of the team and not just as a 13 year old kid and that makes just such a big impact on how i treat others and how i i mean it's it's just made a huge impact on my life having a relationship with you making that difference for you is very important to me because i didn't when i met you i had no idea who you were going to be or what difference i'd make i and i also i didn't know who you were but as soon as i met you i felt that connection and now knowing that i did make a difference is very heartwarming for me we speak of torah as something that is alive because it's a tool for our own moral and spiritual evolution a growth that is best enabled when we study with the wisdom of another i'd like to invite up our ark opener susan lava as we continue with the torah service please rise in body or in spirits [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] said [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] my [Music] you may be seated we're going to be reading from genesis chapter 21 verses 1 through 4. and i'd like to welcome up our torah readers we have lisa fortman and ruby kemper and for the aliyah rita and izzy eichenstein [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we turn our thoughts and our prayers now to everyone in our lives who is in need of healing of body of mind of soul or of spirit we invite you to place the names of your loved ones in the chat so we can hold them in our prayers as a community [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] source of strength who bless the ones before us help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing and let us [Music] heroes [Music] oh [Music] with [Music] [Music] and let us say [Music] it's my pleasure to welcome up oliver and caleb mann as our second tour readers and for the aliyah the gabe otto family [Music] tortoise [Music] a [Music] [Music] abraham [Music] is [Music] [Music] to raise and dress the torah we're on page 246 in the prayer book i'd like to invite up robert hogba bird and gail goldstein please rise in body or in spirits i'll share some moshe leaf [Music] i [Music] you may be seated we turn to page 267 and read in the middle of the page in the english god of remembrance remember the covenant of our ancestors we reaffirm it today remember we are a people of noble ideals help us attain them remember all your people all the nations on the road to peace and bless their efforts remember with mercy the binding of isaac the sorrow of sarah abraham's words here i am for this sounding of the shofar we welcome three young people from our congregation daniel salkin stephen carmona and henry markowitz to do our sounding please rise in body or in spirits [Music] ah uh to rue [Music] tequila [Music] i invite kathy and lee unger up to read a prayer for our world in this year help us to imagine god how we can have any love joy or peace when we know how many suffer in this world how many do not know about the blessings we ask for the love we feel the peace we enjoy we pray that no soul goes hungry and no person lives with fear for their lives we pray that men and women of every color are valued and that we realize we all share the planet equally we pray that isolation and loneliness will disappear into friendship and connection may the one who bestowed blessings to those who have become come before us shower upon all the blessings of health and safety light and love peace and fulfillment bless us for 57 82 move us from narrow to wide from enclosed to expansive our spirits renewed our hope reaffirmed to work together to heal our broken world i welcome our ark openers the redstone platte family please rise and body or spirit we will then be joined by miles platt [Music] [Music] oh [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] can't [Music] please be seated we continue now with a message from our presidents shana tova i am kristen jameson i'm scott stone and i'm jeffrey wharton we are your temple emanuel co-presidents here to wish you the very best for a sweet new year we want to thank our amazing clergy senior rabbi jonathan aaron associate rabbi sarah bassin cantor lizzie weiss and rabbi educator adam lutz for providing these beautiful and meaningful virtual services for a second time the creative ways you pivoted once again to virtual services while providing ways for those who wish to safely gather together in person are so appreciated thank you also to rabbi emerita laura geller you continue to inspire and serve our community through your ongoing work with high village la and our older active adults and finally jeffrey finally a special thanks to our executive director matt davidson and our entire temple staff for working tirelessly to manage the operations of the synagogue through colvin including these high holiday services you have may look easy and we know it has not been our sincere hope is that next year we will be meeting fully in person but in the meantime we continue to follow all governmental mandates and guidelines our staff and clergy are working with our reopening task force on a regular basis to review plans for providing in-person services and programs as soon as we can do so safely your clergy have been working tirelessly on a slate of exciting new and returning programs for this coming year in addition to our beloved ecc run by stacy kessner and our award-winning religious school and successful passport team programs we're building on our tradition of innovation this fall by launching a greater la community religious school initiative jeff can you tell us about it this unique pilot program provides our k-6 religious school curriculum not only to our temple community but also to teachers and students at santa monica synagogue and temple beth israel of pomona with additional congregations considering joining us soon like most synagogues coven 19 continues to impact our membership and you and our revenues while our temple is better situated to whether a financial storm than many synagogues we continue to rely heavily on membership dues and your generosity on that note we extend heartfelt thanks to those who've renewed your membership and have otherwise supported your temple with your generous contributions we are particularly grateful to our pillar members those of you who contributed to the beverly hills ball honoring rabbi aaron and each and every one of you who has given in this year of tumult we appreciate your continued support if for any reason you've not yet renewed your membership and you are able to please do so right away and if you're joining us for the very first time or you're a guest welcome to temple emanuel we hope you'll come again and consider joining our community by becoming a member you can learn more at tebh.org membership thank you again for being with us today and we wish you and your families a sweet new year that brings you good health joy and peace thank you so much so here's a couple other announcements there's a rundown for rosh hashanah for the rest of the day there we go that was fancy um take a look there we've done most of this now we've got two things coming up just go to tebh.org backslash hd info and you can find all of this but um i do want to say at 4 30 today in real life we're actually going to be there we will be at temescal canyon and the peace the pch for a contemplative service it's gonna have some singing quiet time uh lots of uh thoughts and we can gather together bring a beach chair if you don't like see it sitting on the ground so that's at 4 30 5 30 is going to be tosh lee please come for one or come from both of them it's at lifeguard station 10 and be aware there may be some holiday traffic uh tomorrow for our second day we have a 10 15 a.m adult service that's going to be online just like this one at the same time same channel our drive this year is virtual through amazon to help unaccompanied minor immigrants through this incredible organization esperanza go to tebh.org backslash drive and you can participate that you can also come and drop off food for sova here at the temple you can do that anytime during the week also uh this is a great announcement israel 2022 we're going to israel next summer hopefully we'll all be able to go uh go to tbh.org israel 2022 or you can email us please do so quickly i know it's going to fill up yep it's already like villain well yeah it's not too late i also um want to remind you to make sure to register for our for our immersive yisker experience you kind of see it there but last night we actually went into the space and took a look at it it is so incredible surrounded by images and sound and poetry and music it is really going to be incredible you need to make a reservation to come to that because we're only um allowing like 10 to 15 people in the room because it's set up uh you'll see when you come but please come do you have more to say about it well rob aaron i was just going to say that although we are streaming kind of a 30 minute yes score on yom kippur nothing will beat this experience that is literally the 2d version so we really encourage everybody to bring your family and it will be a cathartic experience for sure yeah it's it's incredible i've never seen anything like that except maybe in a museum yeah we have some thank yous thank you to our staff security launch sound professional musicians our incredible choir lori who you don't see is conducting everything in the front and um everyone that's on our production team it's really it's taken a village to put these services together so um we are glad that they were here to help us we also are incredibly grateful to all to our congregation especially our board of directors who you know it makes this all possible all of our participants our chanters our shofar sounders our volunteers the intergenerational choir musicians everybody and especially our conversation participants those conversations um were inspiring um it was inspiring to be in the room and inspiring to see what they brought to the service and lastly if you've been moved by our service we invite you to help sustain and support temple emanuel by going to tebh.org backslash give um you know it it it does take uh kamach to uh to keep a temple going um we need to have uh both the spiritual and the material so um please if you are so moved give to temple emanuel so let us move on now to our final shofar sounds god revealed to us and to fathers and mothers before us god of revelation play the song of our people's freedom on the great shofar let your banner fly over the gathering of our exiles bring back the dispersed let those who are scattered find their way home let joyful songs of zion greet us in jerusalem your holy city the place of our people's eternal happiness around the bottom of page 284 for the sounding of the shofar please rise in body or in spirit tequila [Music] hi [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] please stay standing for eleno [Music] me blue [Music] um [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] if you have lost a loved one in the past year or observing the art site please add that name to the chat or hold it in your heart so that we can mourn together as a community we say kaddish tonight for all those who have no one to say kaddish for them all those lost in the holocaust all those that have died from covet 19 and all those that have died from the violence in our world in recent times we think of our loved ones whom death has recently taken from us those who died at this season in years past and those whom we have drawn into our hearts with our own liver may their memories be a blessing we rise in solidarity in body or spirit with our mourners kadish yato is [Music] [Music] is [Music] bring peace to us to every one of us on this planet and we say amen our god and god of our ancestors eternal god of all generations may your presence in our lives this new year renew our spirits and renew our strength may it be a good year may it be a sweet year please stay standing if you already are or rise in body or spirit for the final blast of the shofar for the new year love [Music] oh [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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