Rosh Hashanah Morning Main Service

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[Music] she made [Music] me oh [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] m [Music] a [Music] source of blessings our eternal god your power fills the cosmos shaping light creating darkness making peace and fashioning all things infinite light is preserved in life's treasure house lights from the darkness said god it was so continue on page 148 we gather the four corners of our seat seats just as we pray that god will gather us from the four corners of the globe me [Music] foreign is [Music] amen return the page to words of shema [Music] [Music] [Music] we continue on page 157 love god with your mind stay curious open to questions marvel at the wonder of what is love god with your heart stay alive to suffering and joy yearn for the world that could be love god with your strength open your hands and give work for the sake of what ought to be continue with me redemption is something that exists far back in our distant past but also lies ahead as something we must constantly work towards brings us back to that moment of celebration at the far shore of the parted sea to remind us of the sweetness of that first taste of freedom may that sweetness inspire us all to bring freedom and justice rolling into our world like water is on page 164. [Music] oh [Music] i don't they are [Music] [Music] is [Music] we begin the amidah together on page 166. if you're able i invite you to please rise prayer is a step on which we rise from the self we are to the self we wish to be prayer affirms the hope that no reality can crush the aspiration that can never acknowledge defeat we'll sing the first few blessings together and then have some time for silent prayer [Music] i [Music] i [Music] maybe [Applause] is [Music] my [Music] [Music] hello hello [Music] yo [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] face [Music] [Music] [Music] me my [Music] again [Music] oh [Music] they [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] me me [Music] me [Music] oh please be seated as with our lives the heart has its rhythm it begins with relaxation and dilation the heart's chambers are first filled with blood that's a diastolic beat then there is the systolic thump the rhythmic contraction of the heart that pumps blood into our arteries these 10 days of repentance also has its rhythm a cadence of systolic and diastolic beats contraction and tension release and relaxation a pulse that emanates from the heart of this liturgy liturgy the heart of our liturgy has a name it's called the unatana tokef designed to knock you off center to give you a tightening feeling in the chest the unatana toketh is definitively systolic and this byzantine liturgical poem can feel well byzantine foreign complicated outdated the jew who wrote the unatana tokef believed that the world was flat and that our lungs and not our hearts pump the blood that circulates through our bodies yet he understood human power and its limitations what we control within a world that spins our power is declared in the first words of his poem the word tokef means validity power unatana tokef kerusha yom we give validity we give power to the holiness of this day we declare the power of this day not god this is our construct what will happen here over the next 10 days is our creation rituals for coping with what we've done the actions we have taken as we steal ourselves for what comes next the unatana tokef presents an image of a god who on this day sits in judgment and writes epigraphs and epitaphs just to be clear an epigraph is a motto or quotation at the beginning of a story that sets the tone for what is to come an epitaph is what's engraved on a tombstone words commemorating the dead epigraphs and epitaphs who shall live and who shall die and the image of a judging god writing epitaphs and epigraphs that's the poet's construct his way of saying it's not all up to us the unatana tokef is less about fate than it is about control something we all seek we all seek power of some sort that's human we all hope that our lives will unfold in particular ways and we take actions to make it so that's human too but this poem is a heart-stopping reminder that it's not all in our hands a litany whose purpose is to awaken us to our fear to pierce our sense of well-being chanting together we admit out loud that having god like power is still not enough to protect us both from the unknown and from ourselves and what we choose to do with power the heart of our liturgy pushes us into the gap during these 10 days we stand in that hair's breath between power and vulnerability but the writer of the unattanath wasn't a fatalist he offers us a way to be in this world here's what to do to shuvah da fila to daka repentance prayer and sadaka it's too simple to say that sadaqah is charity or good deeds it's so much bigger than that tsudaka means proper actions righteous activity tsu.com means loving the stranger it means to have a heart bursting from the constant pursuit of peace it means to walk on this earth with humility and to move ourselves from this present reality towards something much much better we continue on page one hundred and seventy four [Music] [Music] r [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] we continue with the singing of barosha chana page 178. [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] video [Music] i [Music] [Music] me [Music] me [Music] my [Music] me me [Music] oh i [Music] yay [Music] page 180 but through return to the right path through prayer and righteous giving we can transcend the harshness of the [Music] decree [Music] please turn to page 184 and rise [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] foreign hey [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] please be seated in these moments before we continue with our service my colleagues and i invite you to make a pledge for this new year this is a time to make new commitments to think about the year that's passed and how we want to act differently in this new year and i'd like you to either compose that i that commitment in your mind or if you'd like in this moment to write it down on a piece of paper or indeed if you'd like to right now email it to us that commitment you can email us a commitment to new year at betham.org and we will share what you send in to us we will share it with our congregation on yom kippur mourning at the end of these ten days of repentance we continue privately [Music] you will now hear the bethan choir sing the old irish blessing this setting was written by dennis segay father of our own suzy [Music] rothschild [Music] rises is god may god cause his face [Music] me [Music] is page 200 we are stiff-necked and stubborn teach us to bend before you convinced we're right entrenched in our own perspective we resist your call to repent convinced we're self-sufficient entrenched in the illusion of control we resist your call to humility convinced we can have it all entrenched in the dream of mastering the world we resist your call to wake up today you summon us out of our arrogance out of rigidity fantasy shallowness self-deception teach us to bend our knees to bow our heads before the mystery to realize our frailty and our finitude teach us to make you melech sovereign in our life to align ourselves with your goodness and truth we would not bow before pharaoh we would not bow before the persian lord we would not submit to any power on earth or give ourselves to any material thing but we the jewish people stiff-necked stubborn to the end today we bow before you we continue with the great elenu on page 202 please rise [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] my one [Music] [Music] um [Music] oh we continue on the bottom of page 223 with avina malcainu [Music] [Music] [Music] new [Music] no [Music] he [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] [Music] he knew my [Music] [Music] almighty and merciful answer us with grace for our deeds are wanting save us through acts of justice and love please be seated you can be seated our torah reading for the morning of rosh hashanah is a familiar one you talk the binding of isaac the reading from the book of genesis that has disturbed agitated and discomfort jews for millennia you know it god tests abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son isaac on mount moriah abraham raises his knife to kill his son and at the last moment an angel stops the hand of abraham he looks up sees a ram in the thicket and offers the ram as a sacrifice isaac is spared abraham's faith his willingness to offer his own child as a sacrifice is proven to god but the story does not end without trauma the midrash says that isaac was blinded as he lay on the altar by the tears of his father as he stood over him with the knife forever after isaac's sight was impaired and in the torah our matriarch sarah isaac's mother dies immediately after the binding of her son according to the midrash she died of shock at her son's near escape from death and every year on rosh hashanah we remember her the wailing sounds of the shofar recall the anguish cries of sarah it's not an easy story that graces our liturgy on rosh hashanah morning we object to a god who seems to demand the sacrifice of a beloved son and we object to a father so willing to obey god's call that he offers his child we object to isaac who is not an infant or a toddler he's strong enough to carry the pile of wood up the mountain and yet seems to so passively acquiesce to his fate on the altar why is this story given to us on our holy day what does it have to teach us why must we read this haunting tale at the new year as the central part of our rosh hashanah service perhaps the anguish and terror of akadat yitzhak is the whole point it's a story that has put us on notice for thousands of years our ancestors made sure we knew this story this story about fragility and precariousness of life this story that reminds us how close death is this story that shakes our faith that shakes our world this year the binding of isaac speaks to us especially for our world has been shaken so many were bound on the altar this year so many lay helpless in the icu unable to breathe and so many unlike isaac never got up again they were not spared if anything has been clear this year it's the fragility of life two hundred thousand dead in this country alone all of us have been impacted by this strange disease and many lives have been permanently altered some in our community have lost family members and friends and neighbors and colleagues we hear heartbreaking stories of the ones who died the affable doorman in new york the loving grandmother in florida the holocaust survivor the new immigrant the musician the teacher each of them was a whole world with their deaths worlds have been lost and lives have been devastated by grief i also know that so many in our congregation faced other hardships and struggles bereavement serious illness job loss economic pressures the significant strains on marriages and friendships addiction depression loneliness isolation one member of our synagogue told me that they haven't felt the physical embrace of another since march so this year aren't we all abraham and isaac don't we all feel tested and bound don't we all feel that the knife is above us and we are searching for a ram in the thicket wherever we look we face challenges consider a partial list of what we've endured in the past few months an epidemic of epic scale that has especially harmed the most vulnerable members of society the elderly the medically compromised the poor people of color low-wage workers our leaders inability to promote and follow scientific guidelines that would help mitigate the disease the start of a school year that has forced heroic teachers into online classes and overwhelm parents and children into zoom rooms rather than classrooms an ongoing assault on trusted institutions of government ranging from the center for disease control to the post office a disturbing erosion of empathy for one another the continued plague of gun violence a hunger crisis including many who have never before stood in line at food pantries an upsurge in hate and bigotry and anti-semitism mass racial unrest fueled by systemic racism that this country hasn't experienced in a generation an ongoing assault on truth and facts and scientific expertise the worst fires the west has ever seen and an unwillingness at the federal level to actively and forcefully confront climate change and climate deniers obscene attempts to strip americans of the sacred right to vote flagrant violations of the norms of democracy at the highest level of government the continued rise of authoritarian leaders throughout the world who deny minority rights and quash descent leaders who divide our country for personal and electoral gain rather than heal comfort and bring us together i know i miss some add your own i hear some of you saying john this sermon is getting too political stay away and i agree there is no place for partisan politics from the bema other than reminding you of your essential obligation to vote i would never say which candidate or which party to vote for or against yet i do believe that religion has a significant role to play in society it offers a moral perspective that is essential for our country in times of national strife we especially need religious individuals and institutions to have the courage to speak out in the public arena to offer ethical guidance inspiration and comfort rabbi amielle hirsch of the stephen wise free synagogue in new york city writes if what some people mean by religion should stay out of politics is that we should never engage in the social challenges of our time never speak about the here and now only about the hereafter it is something judaism cannot accept the assertion that religious institutions should stay out of politics is itself a political stance it takes you off the field the public arena where the contest of values will be determined and leaves the field open to others who have different values than we do so this rosh hashanah i ask you should we really aid and support fire victims and ignore the reality of climate change should we really comfort the mourner of a covid patient and not ask if that death was preventable should we really tell the story of passover and not speak out for the refugees of our own day should we really house the homeless as we do in our own social hall and ignore the policies that cause their homelessness should we really teach our kids the values of honesty and not call out the deceivers and dishonest brokers in our country should we really mourn the tragic death of unarmed unarmed black men and women and not vigorously fight racism our betham clergy will continue to speak out for the jewish values and apply them to the world in which we live if we slip up if we disagree please speak out and speak your truth we no doubt will get it wrong sometimes hold us accountable we represent diverse experiences and backgrounds and beliefs that diversity makes us stronger but above all i believe that we must engage in the important issues of our time i'm inspired by the words of the great faith leader reverend william barber who says when faith and church become merely a place where privatized religion and privatized salvation and privatize relationship with the divine it is actually counter to scripture in the hebrew bible scripture declares in isaiah woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights so whenever religious bodies just go through the motions of an internal religiosity and do not deal with the social structures of injustice then they become accommodating so here at betham we will work together to address the challenges of this troubled time through the texts and stories and teachings of our tradition so we do today lifting up the story of the binding of isaac in the midst of the great test we are facing as a country abraham as we know passes god's test his faith his resolute his son lives they are scarred distraught shaken but they come down from mount moriah only to face another painful challenge the death of sarah like us abraham must have asked himself how much more of this can i take how long will this go on but the next chapter of genesis teaches that abraham picked himself up and did what had to be done viacom avraham abraham arose from before his dead he mourned for his wife in a range for her burial at the cave of machpelah the place where someday he and isaac and jacob would be buried and then slowly over time abraham went forward as rabbi peter rubinstein writes one step probably stumbling at first then walking with resolve and finally we hope he ran forward the story tells us that abraham married again and had more children sad scarred aching but abraham moved on carrying memory feeling the sadness of what might have happened he moved on bearing his dead he moved on how will we move on and move forward in this devastating time as individuals and as a community first by openly acknowledging our sense of loss for here we are coming together in this strange way virtually it is so hard not to see you not to feel the warm embrace of congregants not to witness the blossoming of our high schoolers not to smile at the newlyweds and the new babies not to hug the mourners who come to the high holidays for the first time without a partner i so yearn to share challah and wine with you to hold the sacred torah as we reach out asidor or talit more than anything i want to hear the majestically haunting blast of the shofar in a room filled with people second we move forward by recognizing how much we need each other not just for emotional connection but as a spur to action we need each other we need our strong shared sense of right and wrong we need one another to motivate and agitate towards the world we want to live in even in these difficult days we can continue to do that so reach out protest write challenge lobby speak truth vote get out the vote these are the acts that fit this sacred season these are the acts that our country needs in this time of uncertainty these are the acts of a faithful community in the words of justice ruth bader ginsburg real change enduring change happens one step at a time finally we move forward by holding fast to hope there's a well-known story about a jew in spain during the terrible days of the spanish inquisition first his business was confiscated by the authorities and then his home and then he was deported while waiting to board his ship he was separated from his family all this jew had left was a small bag filled with old clothes the cruel captain of the ship dropped him off on the desert coast of north africa leaving him there to die what could the jew do he picked up his bag and set off to search for civilization but after a few days alone in the desert he threw down his bag he looked up to heaven and cried out send the angel of death now i am ready in front of him appeared the black figure of the angel of death who said you called for me the jew thought for a minute and replied yes help me put this bag on my back again will you i still have some living to do all of us have a lot of living to do much has changed this year but this remains the power to affirm life in everything we do perhaps that is the ultimate message of rosh hashanah life is precious and it is ours to live on these days of all let us realize the power we all have the power to begin a new year to transcend helplessness and despair to marshal our inner resources to preserve in the face of uncertainty and move forward to the better time that awaits us let us hold on to hope hope gives us strength the chain to life we continue with our service for reading of the torah on page 222 please rise if you are able as we sing in kamoja more [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Laughter] [Music] god compassionate gracious patient loving and true showing mercy to the thousandth generation forgiving evil defiance and wrongdoing granting pardon [Music] [Music] m [Music] [Music] him [Music] a [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] oh oh [Music] foreign [Music] my the translation of the akedah may be found on page 240. and this morning for our liot we wanted to honor the leaders of each of the three initiatives that we launched are our year-long initiatives that we launched last month and so it's a pleasure to invite to lead us in blessing on this morning for the first aliyah the co-chairs of our racial equity and justice initiative rebecca altimarano and donovan israel and their spouses antonio altimarano and ali israel who will lead us in blessings and we have our torah chanters for the first aliyah sarah doctorow and simon stellenberg foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] me a [Music] [Music] [Music] my me and for our second aliyah i invite for to lead us in blessings our co-chairs of our work in youth education debbie muckamal and jenny harris will lead us in blessings and the second aliyah will be chanted by zoe stern and ben siegel is [Music] torah like foreign me [Applause] [Music] [Music] me our third initiative the internet is our temple learning from our past to design our future focuses on membership engagement and recruitment and we want to invite our co-chairs of that initiative jay hirsch and dana marks to invite to to lead us in blessings for the third aliyah which will be chanted by violet tivol and olivia rosenthal [Music] [Music] he a fades oh foreign for millennia our people have found strength in our story of our relationship with the divine we turn now to our prayer for healing and strength on page 245 misha berabe [Music] oh may the source of strength who bless the ones before us help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing and let us [Music] [Music] the renewal of spirit and let us rabbi morrison will now lift and dress the torah on page 246. [Music] be [Music] [Music] we turn now to our reading from the haftarah our conclusion or completion of our reading this morning this morning's haftarah portion is from the book of first samuel focusing on the story of chana a woman of deep piety and grace her name literally means grace connecting to the theme of hayom harat today the world is born anew and the possibility of renewal and rebirth that rosh hashanah embodies we meet hannah who is barren and after a moment of deep heartfelt prayer in the holy temple she cries out to the holy one though ellie the high priest rebukes her for her loud raw prayer we see that she is later given the gift of life this story is a reminder of both the pain and struggle of infertility and the power and importance of sincere heartfelt prayer our haftarah chanters this morning are linda brownstein and marissa young and you can follow along with the haftarah reading on pages 250 through 253 and look also look at the commentary on page 200 and 48. baruch a he is uh oh [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] is is [Music] when we were piecing together the puzzle as to how were we going to celebrate rosh hashanah during this pandemic it was this next part of the service our shofar service that i guess was the most complicated and it's certainly for us your clergy the most well the most fun and most i would say pleasant part of the service that's about to come and so a couple of wednesdays ago we got together and we figured out how we would do the shofar service as you'll note in this video the sky is particularly orange because it was that day that apocalyptic day and indeed it seemed quite right to blow a shofar on that day it also was a smart move we learned subsequently to have pre-recorded our shofar service because a few days afterwards we learned that were we to blow a shofar in the presence of other people we would have had to have put a mask on the end of the shofar but we aren't going to let kovad keep us down and so here's our shofar service you don't need your moxor at all just watch but more importantly listen like musical preludes three traditional motifs announced the highest peak of rosh hashanah the calls of the shofar the ancient sounds that we call takiyah shivarim trua and tikiya gadola we read in the talmud that according to rabbah the holy one said on rosh hashanah recite before me words of mathuyote sovereignty note remembrance and shofarot sovereignty so that you may acknowledge me as ruler over you remembrance so that remembrances of you may rise favorably before me and how shall all this be accomplished through the sounds of the shofar we begin with maufluyot source of blessing eternal our god you fill the universe with majestic might summoning us to hear the sound of the shofar [Music] [Music] my [Music] oh source of blessing eternal our god you fill the universe with majestic might giving us life upholding the life within us and bringing us to this time foreign [Music] 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 bless their efforts remember with mercy the binding of isaac the sorrow of sarah abraham's words here i am our memory fades but you remember all that we have forgotten your presence is a throne where all things matter and nothing is lost blessed are you adonai you remember the covenant you remember us [Laughter] [Music] uh [Applause] today the world is born anew this day the whole of creation stands before you to be judged as we are your children love us in the way of mothers and fathers as we are yours in service guide us by the light of your justice grace and holiness israel blessed are you in our lives adonai you herewith love the shofar true voice of your people israel let the wishes of our lips our hearts desire be pleasing before you god most high you are knowing and attentive watchful and aware when we call out tequila lovingly favorably receive our prayers of shofar wrote [Laughter] ah so we're on page 285 [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] maybe no more oh oh [Applause] from as we turn to the prayer for the state of israel on page 274 we recognize how important engagement with israel is for so many of us this past year we had the opportunity to vote in the world zionist congress elections which determines the leadership of the parliament of the jewish people bringing israelis and jews from throughout the diaspora together to make important decisions around funding in the state of israel thanks to the dedicated leaders here at betham who made sure we all remember to vote and many others across the country a total of 123 575 votes were cast by american jews from all 50 states the district of columbia and the u.s territories this is more than double the turnout of the prior vote in 2015 and the highest number of ballots cast in a u.s wzc election in three decades with your support with your support the vote reform slate representing reform judaism which is proudly pro-israel steadfastly pro-democracy pro-pluralism and pro-peace receive the greatest number of delegates ensuring reformed jews have a loud voice around the table we're also so thrilled to read of the new and recent agreements between israel and her neighbors we pray for the state of israel on page 274 avenue you who are high above all nation states and peoples rock of israel the one who has saved us and preserved us in life bless the state of israel first flowering of our redemption be her loving shield a shelter of lasting peace guide her leaders and advisors by your light of truth instruct them with your good counsel strengthen the hands of those who build and protect our holy land deliver them from danger crown their efforts with success grant peace to the land lasting joy to all of her people and together we say amen we turn now to page 277 and rise if you're able as we return the torah to the ark [Music] my [Music] [Music] look [Music] as we do each rosh hashanah and each shabbat we are as a community are committed to helping others this year as this new year starts we encourage you to be as generous as possible with our sadaka both to wildfire emergency fund and to the betham hunger and homelessness fund supporting crucial crucial organizations this year that are working to alleviate the pain of so many in our community and we also also encourage you to be join us in our voter engagement and advocacy nonpartisan events and actions throughout the fall you can see the webpage betham.org slash justice please be involved while we cannot gather together at the baylands this year for tashleigh we encourage you to participate in this important practice of casting out our sins into a body of water we invite you this year to grab a piece of paper and a pencil maybe take some time to reflect on this past year and write down three behaviors that you would like to change in the new year and then sometime between now and yom kippur bring yourself your paper and perhaps some breadcrumbs to a natural body of water like the bay or the ocean or a river you can find a do-it-yourself cashless service along with recordings of the liturgy on our high holy day central website betham.org hhd 2020 while you're there you can read through the tashley service when you're ready whisper these behaviors you'd like to change into a handful of breadcrumbs and toss them into the water you can also find a number of activities and opportunities for reflecting and navigating through these 10 days of teshuva these 10 days of repentance on the high holy day central site we also recognize that for many people the opportunity to stand in front of the open ark on yom kippur is a profound spiritual moment and we invite those who would like to do so to sign up for a time to stand before the ark in the betham sanctuary sometime in the coming week you'll need to make a reservation and again you can go to that high holy day web central website to sign up for a time to come and visit the ark autumn sonnet if i can let you go as trees let go their leaves so casually one by one if i can come to know what they do know that fall is the release the consummation then fear of time and uncertain fruit would not distemper the great lucid skies this strangest autumn mellow and acute if i can take the dark with open eyes and call it seasonal not harsh or strange for love itself may need a time of sleep and tree like stand unmoved before the change lose what i lose to keep when i can keep the strong roots still alive under the snow love will endure if i can let you go our words of kaddish are on page 292. if you're thinking of someone if there's an empty seat next to you on this rosh hashona i invite you to rise and say that person's name out loud ask everyone else to please rise as we say the words of mourner's kaddish together is is amen [Music] oh [Music] enjoy [Music] will those who saw [Music] who [Music] joy [Music] and we invite you to join us for a blessing for the new year on page 294. haiyom to ab-senu strengthen us on this day amen bless us today amen lift up our lives on this day amen grant us goodness today amen inscribe us for a good life on this day on this day receive our prayers with love fortify our best intentions may we go forth today to do your righteous work amen and join us in our concluding alam on page 298 [Music] m [Music] please [Music] [Music] la la [Music] and before we join together for kidus and mozi i wanted to quickly thank and eric's and express our appreciation for all of you who helped us make this morning happen and contributed to this beautiful service first an acknowledgement to the chairs of our three initiatives for leading us in the aliot on this morning i particularly want to name though the chanters of both torah and hoftarah sarah doctorow and simon stellenberg zoe stern and ben siegel violet tivol and olivia rosenthal and also linda bronstein and marissa young you all did remarkable stuff today it was beautiful to listen to you and to be led by you i particularly too though want to add thanks to all of the musicians who've joined us since last night ben lloyd was with us last night on oboe and then he appeared again in in the videos of the choir so thank you so much ben lloyd for your wonderful musicianship and throughout this morning we've been led by jefferson packer on keyboards and daniel sher on violin so thank you both so much and finally i want to thank our production team for the work that they've been doing throughout this week but most of all i think our gratitude goes to our executive producer who also is our executive director rachel tash she's the one who ensured that we all reach this moment so thank you so much rachel and so now we've finished just in time for a festive lunch and so i hope first that you'll join me in kiddush with some wine or juice [Applause] m 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