Yom Kippur Mincha & Neilah Service at Aliyah

all right guys we're ready all right let's do it welcome to our minha service we hope your fast has been going well so far we're getting to those final hours the final stretch and since we're in the final stretch i thought that maybe i would let you in on one of the names that we clergy are called so sometimes when rabbi vogel sends us an email to the rest of the clergy team he begins his email with dear holy clergy and he writes that to remind us of our role as clay kodesh that's a hebrew term used for clergy meaning holy vessels or holy instruments rabbi's encounters are supposed to be the method the instrument of bringing holiness to a community so what does it mean to be holy what does it mean to live a life of holiness our torah reading for yom kippur afternoon is what's known as the holiness code it's a section of leviticus that provides rules for how to live a holy life don't worship idols leave food for the poor and the stranger don't steal don't insult the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind don't render an unfair decision don't hate others or bear a grudge lots of rules that we can follow that will lead us to live a holy life and this section of text like i said is known as the holiness code because each part each few verses ends with the same refrain the same reason for why we have to do all of these things and that refrain is ani adonai i am god and that's it that's the whole reason we can not steal and not hate others for all kinds of reasons but when we follow these laws because god commanded us that's when we enter the realm of holiness you all don't need rabbis and cantors to teach you these laws we're reading here today many of them are fairly obvious many of them could even be found on a rules list in a kindergarten classroom but holiness means going beyond just following the rules it means thinking about why we follow them and that's where we clergy come in we aim to be clay kodesh holy vessels to help bring a spiritual element to the desire you already have to be good people and make the world a better place we just help put it in the context of holiness and that's what this text does for all of us as well we all know that we should strive to be good people and our torah reading reminds us that we should strive to be good people in order to bring holiness into our lives you can follow along as we begin the torah service on page 670 or 361 will invite you to rise [Music] [Music] is [Music] when the torah comes to a rest we'll invite you to be seated you can follow along the torah reading is on page 678 or page 365. we're going to invite forward laura cohen who will be reading torah and larry and laura i believe or maybe just laura will be reciting the brachot this is leviticus chapter 19 verse one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] m we'll call forward for the second aliyah laura beth shokov who will be reading from the torah and laura beth and jack shulkoff will be reciting the brachot this is on page 678 page 366 in the other version leviticus chapter 19 verse 11. for a fluett adonai hamburger [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] we call forward for the third aliyah rick schumacher who will be reading torah and reciting the brachot this can be found on page 680 or 366. leviticus chapter 19 verse 15. [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] please rise for the lifting and dressing of the torah steve and michelle hoist will come up for hogwarts [Music] is [Music] you may be seated the book of jonah have you really thought about the book of jonah we have so many stories i mean if you think about you know we read the torah and we say well you know do we believe everything that happened there well we kind of not sure about some of those things maybe the the plagues we're not sure about the party of the sea like okay we're gonna have faith we get to the story of estuary other ones we go like uh you know we're not quite sure you know think it might be historical not sure and then we get to the book of jonah right and you know really really like he's in a fish like that fish swallowed him and like am i reading jonah am i reading pinocchio like i'm not sure what book i'm reading you know so you know did they really ever think that this story ever happened there are scholars there are rabbinic uh commentators who say it was all prophetic it was in a dream and um the idea of jonah in some ways you know i i'd like to think sometimes that each of us is jonah and each of us is jonah that we have a holy mission in life that we're sent on right like we've been given a holy purpose and the question is are we going to go towards that direction or are we going to try and go the other way and how do we run away from those responsibilities and jonah of course who runs sheesh he thinks he can outrun god or his conscience or anything else whatever you want to say by getting on a boat but his conscience and god is going to follow him and the idea that we have that we can't run away from our responsibilities our sense of obligations of other people and jonah by the way is not prophesying to the israelites he's not prophesying to the jewish people he's prophesying to the world at large it's such an important message that we have i think that that it's a prophecy and that we care about the world at large it's not about just being insulated and being part of a jewish community at this moment but we're concerned about the world the end of the story is crazy by the way it is absolutely wild and takes um many different commentators to even kind of understand this story at the end with the kikayon but i think that when we read this in the afternoon here's one of my guesses about why we read it at minha is that we're supposed to feel the immediacy of the moment we're towards the end of the day and yom kippur is almost over right after this we're going to get to naila we're going to feel the sense that the gates are closing they're open but they're closing but they're open and we want to feel that immediacy with jonah i want to believe that we're supposed to feel now like we're in the belly of that fish right like we're supposed to be calling out supposed to feel the sense you know how we've talked about this before that sometimes you don't do the right thing or can't change until you hit rock bottom so you feel like i have to change we're supposed to feel just each of us each of us is in that belly of the fish jonah has uh always been one of our favorites here at minha the call forward bob epstein um and peter doc who will share with us their special rendition of the book of jonah you're going to be able to find this as soon as i do you will as well uh you're going to be able to find jonah in your mock store i don't have it in the other mock store by the way um it is on page anybody feel free to call out a page what is it 682 the winner with uh we'll take the bid page 682 the book of jonah with the introductory blessing [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is but i don't know i cast a mighty wind upon the sea and such a great tempest came upon the sea that the ship was in danger of breaking up in their fight the sailors cried cried out each to his own god and they flung the ship's cargo overboard to make it lighter for them jonah meanwhile had gone down into the hold of the vessel where he lay down and fell asleep the captain went over to him and cried out how can you be sleeping so soundly up up call upon your god perhaps the god will be kind to us and we shall not perish the crew said to one another let us cast lots and find out on whose account this misfortune has come upon us so they cast lots and the lot fell on jonah they said to him tell us you who have brought this misfortune upon us what is your business where have you come from what is your country and of what people are you i am hebrew he replied i worship adonoi the god of heavens who made both sea and land the crew was greatly terrified what have you done and when the crew learned that he was fleeing from the service of adonoi for so he told them they said to him what must we do to calm the sea around us for the sea was growing more and more stormy he answered heave me overboard and the sea will come for you and i know that this terrible storm came upon you on my account nevertheless the crew rode hard to regain the shore but they could not for the sea was growing more and more stormy about them then they cried out to aranoi oh please adonoid do not let us perish on account of this fellow's life do not hold us guilty of killing one innocent person for you oh adonoi by your will have brought this about and the heave jonah overboard and the sea stopped raging the crew feared autonomy greatly they offered a sacrifice to aranoi and they made vows adenoid provided a huge fish do you know what a huge fish is bob it's big it's enormous to swallow jonah and jonah remain in the fish's belly for three days and three nights i get this feeling what jonah must have felt like in this large place today alone in the belly of the fish jonah prayed to his god aranoi from the belly of the fish he said karate mitzvah give me a second to get my glasses the kids the kids is the fish and it spewed jonah out on the dry land the word of adonoi came to jonah a second time go at once to nineveh that great city and proclaim to it what i tell you jonah went at once to nineveh in accordance with autonomous command nineveh was an enormously sharp blue nineveh was an enormously large city three days walk across it was huge it was huge that's what i'm saying jonah started out and made his way to the city the distance of one day's walk and proclaimed forty days more and nineveh shall be overthrown the people of nineveh believed god they proclaimed fast a fast and great and small alike put on sackcloth a [Music] [Music] is [Music] god saw what they did how they were turning back from their evil ways and god renounced the punishment that had been planned for them and did not carry it out there's been quite a lot of discussion over the ages about the fourth and final chapter of jonah it tells the story of what happened after jonah went to nineveh as the lord had originally commanded where he encouraged the people of nineveh to repent to perform to shiva after visiting the city with god's warning jonah wasn't really sure that the assyrian people of nineveh had really repented and he waited and watched from the outskirts of the city to see if the lord would nevertheless be merciful and spare them there under the hot sun god provided jonah with the shade of a kiki on tree bob have you ever seen lucky gentry i i have not seen it they're shady not shady like this they were shady is what i'm saying that's very kikion yes it was but he only did it for a single day for on the following day the lord sent a worm and a hot wind to destroy the tree leaving jonah as you can imagine in great discomfort why did the lord do this bob i i have no idea that's why i thought you were here well he again wanted to teach jonah something about mercy the lord wanted to make clear to jonah the enormity of the love he had even for the people of nineveh a people he had created like all others and whom he wished would continue to live long and fruitful lives because jonah questioned the sincerity of the tishuvah of the people of nineveh he questioned the lord's mercifulness jonah it seems that mourn the loss of the kikian tree more than the potential loss of the people of nineveh the lord rebuked him at the end of the book of jonah saying you had pity on the kikayan and i should not have pity on the on on nineveh but the midrash provides jonah's response after the lord had admonished him for his doubtfulness and at that moment when jonah fell on his face he understood what the lord had done and jonah proclaimed lead your world with the attribute of mercy for hashem our god is mercy and forgiveness again i hope he forgives us for this reading yeah i hope so too me el camona is there any divinity save you who forgives the sins and pardons the transgressions of the remnant your people you do not maintain anger forever for you delight in love you will return to us compassionately overcoming the consequences of our sin hurling our sins into the depths of the sea titan is [Music] no it's fine it's okay no seriously are you done no thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you want to do it again you had so much fun 13 months well we had fun we had fun listening um we are going to put the torah away now so we'll invite you to rise as the ark is opened [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] the ark is closed we'll invite you to remain standing for the amidah page 700 or page 374. 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[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh we'll conclude our day as all jewish holidays conclude with allah so if you're at home if you have a candle if you have a flashlight a glow stick anything else that lights up go and get it so you can join with us um while you're going to grab that we just really want to thank everyone who is part of putting these high holy days together it really took a village we had lay leaders and volunteers and people working on the technology and clergy and staff and we just we have so much gratitude um to everyone who played major parts in bringing these services together um at the end of tabdallah we'll hear the takiyag dola sounded and then we hope you'll stay on for mahev as well as we welcome the new day you can find havdalah on page 823 or 459. yeah [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] r [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] page 828 page the final the dewey the final prayers of this this yom kippur evening is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he if you have it if you have a shofar at home you can take it out of this time we're going to hear the final blast of the shofar for these high holy days as we blow the tikiyah the big takiyah i'll call that out in a moment i almost had you there didn't i all right here we go huh [Music] [Music] [Applause] we will join together for a very quick mari service as well those of you especially at home if you have kaddish or here as well mimi the camera's on you i think we're on page 810 please rise [Music] you may be seated [Music] is is we continue silently on page 813 i am [Music] me is [Music] a oh yes [Music] 816 immediately followed by the silent amidah on page 818. but [Music] [Music] um you we continue page 8 22 with kadhi shalem yet magog [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you may be seated we turn to page 484 for psalm 27 the david is found on page 482 please rise if you have a need or desire to say kaddish yitka dal is that concludes our service thank you everybody special shout out to adrian you

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