Yom Kippur Morning Service at 92Y - 2021 / 5782

hello foreign so my man hmm hello oh me um we return we return we return we return we return return again and again love love we return again me we return we return return again again and again to you to you we return again day 10 the final of the yamim no our days of awe i am rabbi elka abrahamson and i'm joined by alana aryan this morning and we are blessed to return to this kahila kadusa this holy congregation we're grateful to have a safe number here in person we are so grateful to have you here in person and offer a warm warm welcome to those joining us from so many places both near and far we feel your presence both in the room in powerful ways and want to thank especially the many of you who have reached out to us who have found us online to share your experience of virtual participation from so many places it's it's really inspiring we gather together nine days ago on rosh hashanah just as the summer season was ending we finished up our labor day picnics and turned right around and stepped over the threshold of the jewish new year the autumnal equinox is exactly one week from tonight when we will sit in the sukkah perhaps perhaps i admit i'm praying for some crisp autumn air to arrive with the holiday of sukkot on cue this day we settle into the quiet of yom kippur the sacred time when we take ourselves out of our routine in order to thoughtfully reset routines we need it every year and speaking for myself believe that i need it more than ever what a year just think for a moment of all that we have experienced together since one year ago the pandemic is ongoing we experience an election and a leadership transition in the united states recounts an insurrection an inauguration a successful vaccine a prolonged reckoning with racial justice a distressing increase in anti-semitic incidents a disturbing divide in our nation a war in israel an election and completely unpredictable leadership change in israel continued gun violence earthquakes wildfires and drought and i know good things happen too in our lives this yom kippur day i invite you to shut out the relentless noise that unsettles us just leave it at the door and focus instead on your personal story of the last year your challenges and blessings we do not come together to separate this day from the world no rather we seek to allow our prayers to carry us back into our communities back into our lives as better people we begin then with the prayer that we shall each plant our own seeds of light and righteousness or zarua la zadiq with a a we open our mocks or to page 88. we use the moxar eight dratzone it's a very thick and heavy masala we know it is unique because it contains all of the prayers of both of the hagim and it puts them all over the moxor which is why you're going to feel us skipping around it's not because we're skipping 400 pages at once it's because i know you might wish us to be skipping 400 pages but it's because certain sections go back and certain sections go forward and as you can see from the moxor the hebrew and transliteration are on the left side the left facing side and the english translation and some contemporary poetry or interpretation on the right side both with the same page numbers as often as we can we're going to put the the villa the prayers on the screen so you can leave your moxor on your lap or those of you at home can use the screen we begin then on page 88 hello hi nichola each morning we thank god for restoring our breath for allowing us to wake up in the morning restored renewed and refreshed is hello a hello page 105. happy are they who dwell in your house for they can always praise you happy the people with this heritage happy the people whose god is adonai we join together in singing my oh ah hallelujah page 109 continue with psalm 150 which i always want to announce as being on page 150 so it's not it's on page 109 if we were to uh be able to transport ourselves back to yom kippur in the ancient days of the temple we would um we would all be dressed in white we would not be sitting quietly there would be a lot of noise there would be animals being brought there would be instruments um anyone who's ever been involved in the congregation has probably at some point in time been involved in a conversation about decorum anyone here been involved in a conversation about decor yeah a lot of hands went up i see a lot of hands going up at home also i've been involved in my conversations and there's always some tension between you know let's be noisy and let's sit with a sense of reverence on psalm 150 decorum is defined by noise and movement so just so you know if you'd like to be noisy this is your moment and move around this is your moment as we remember those days in the temple when we praise god with all kinds of instruments today we use our voices and our instrumentalists you can get loud one word hallelujah here we go hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah page 121 as we prepare for the bahu how many blessings come to us each week each day each hour indeed at each and every moment of our lives blessings more than we can count more than we have earned they come to us let us bless their source for blessing us so richly i invite you to rise as you think about one blessing you bring to this moment as we together bless the source of all the goodness that we possess oh foreign you may be seated on page 122. we pray responsibly each day you burst open the doors of the eastern sky and the windows of the globe surrounding the world and you propel the sun and moon out of their resting places each day you bring light to the cosmos and all its components to our world and all its inhabitants all created and sustained through your compassion each day you create the world all over again and each day you demonstrate your goodness for ages we have praised you and glorified you you are our exalted ruler you are our eternal god have compassion on us infinite source of compassion you are a rock of strength our shield of protection our spirit of salvation we continue on page 130. on this day is unique today and only today we do the second line of the shema out loud as our ancient ancestors did when they were gathering together at the holy temple there's a tradition that teaches that moshe moses heard these words that second line of the shema when he was on top of mount sinai receiving torah the the ministering angels the malachaia shahrait sang aloud this verse at the moment the torah was given and today we are told we are angel-like we wear white apparently angels dress in white i'm not sure my personal angel's wearing white but traditionally our angels wear white we we step away from human needs as angels don't eat and don't wear leather and um today we don't either and we sing like the angels it's a really beautiful notion we're handed for generations that today we we rise to the level of angels just today and in this line we express it so i'm going to invite you to if you're comfortable close your eyes or cover your eyes and feel that second line the gift of saying it out loud as the angels did together the shema on page 130. is shame oh we continue chanting together the ahafter middle of page 130. we continue privately the rest of the vieja to the bottom of page 132 we continue praying responsibly in the english on the top of page 135. you rescued us from egypt adonai our god and redeemed us from slavery you destroyed the oppressors and rescued the victims you split the sea let us the cross and thank them for what has covered them no one's survived in response our ancestors praised and exalted you they sang and played to you they praise and bless you they acknowledge and thanked you their ruler their ever living everlasting god you are truly amazing truly awe-inspiring you bring down the mighty you raise up the lowly you set free the enslaved you redeem the downtrodden and you help the impoverished you respond when we cry out to you all praise to our exalted god you are blessing and you are blessed moses and miriam and the children of israel burst into songs of praise and joy to you and shout it out all together page 136 foreign oh i we continue on page 42. in the middle of the page we pray together a prayer for peace you provide shalom to the whole world you bless us all with grace loving kindness and compassion you bless all of us simultaneously loving parent the light of your face your presence for when we are in your presence we can sense all the gifts that you give us a torah of life boundless love loving kindness a passion for justice a sense of being blessed compassion for others a thirsts for the fullness of life and shalom a sense of serenity wholeness peace you bless your people israel and all who dwell on earth at all times at every moment of our lives with all of these gifts see mrs i is me me oh oh is is oh we turn now to page 199 in a moment we'll rise for another chanting of this gorgeous liturgical piece of vino machinu there's a story that's told in the talmud two thousand years ago that there was a great drought and the rabbis took turns coming before the ark and praying for the reigns and they failed finally rabbi akiva came before the community and fasted and stood before the ark over the course of 24 hours and appeal to god in a unique way calling god a vinu malcanu our father our mother our parents the one who takes care of us who nurtures us who raised us who gave us life who loved us over and over he said avinu malcanu and according to the talmud that's when the reigns came when we appeal to the holy one not as a distant force but as a loving parent and so these words were placed in today's liturgy as they are actually in the liturgical cannon of every fast day but we really associate them with these holidays when we are thirsty and when we need sustenance and spiritual nourishment we appeal as children to a parent whose first concern for us is our growth we rise together for the aveeno malcano page 199 as we pray open wide the gates of heavens for our prayers loving parent compassionate ruler we acknowledge that we have sinned before you look if my um um oh um shimmer lane we remain standing and turn to page 204 for seder kriya tatara the service for the reading of the torah page 204. so god of compassion and grace slow to anger abundant in mercy and truth okay at this opportune time adonai you receive my prayers with great loving kindness and you respond with true assistance we turn to the bottom of page 206 echoing ilana as we responsively chant the via and the following verses is is so this is the point of the service where i would normally come into the kahal into the congregation and parade the torah through the kahal so you could have a chance to give personal kavod to the torah but something else happens during the hakafa which is we get a chance to personally say shana tova to each other so here's what we're going to do we're doing a pandemic it's not written in the talmud but perhaps it should have been i'm going to just start over here and as i come to your section just you can bow your head to the torah or raise your book if somebody did to the torah but i also want you to say shanatova to me so just as i come to you just like give me a wave you know a fist bump and a as you would if i was there because i really missed that so as i move across the stage we'll start over here so sanator happy new year happy new year to this section happy new year happy new year happy new year happy new year happy new year to the front row i know you can't see me very well so shout-out to all of you hello hello there's always that drama when the torah is carried around if you know the rabbi will trip now there's this added drama will she fall off the stage or kick one of these nice little things off the stage so i didn't rabbi misha zinko will read the safer tour this morning and give you a sense of the text that he's reading which will it's in your book but it's going to be easier for you to follow on stage on the screen on the slides yes this morning's tour reading is the beginning of chapter 16 of leviticus which describes the public theater of yom kippur day in the days of the holy temple which reached its high point when the high priest aaron placed his hands upon a goat confessed all of israel's sins the goat the scapegoat was then sent off into an unknown inaccessible wilderness away from jerusalem to die this ritual was the nearly final act of a long yom kippur day of animal sacrifice on the temple altar it was a powerful symbolic act a dramatic metaphor for judaism's belief in the human capacity to correct course and for god's eternal willingness to forgive every year since ancient times and to this day on this day high on we return to a place we feel god's presence we return to a community of prayer and intentionality and observance here we confess to god that we have once again failed to live up to a vision of our best selves sin repent forgive repeat this repetition has been our pattern for as long as humanity has been on earth for us as jews a three thousand year old script after all we are only human and as such are humbled before the holy one and grateful for our awareness that god is both patient and merciful because god loves us god wants us to repair ourselves if we put in put it in the language of this morning's tor reading the holy one wants us to place our hands on our own imaginary goats get our arms around our transgressions and once and for all dispatch them so far from our beings that we can truly sincerely pivot toward the good may our hands be guided with wisdom our hearts with sincere intent and may god judge us with mercy again chapter 16 beginning with verse 1. again we're not going to call anyone to the bhima for the sake of our health and safety but we are certainly going to invite you to participate in the aliyah those of you are at home and those of you here in the kahal in the congregation so i'm going to um invite you up to stay just to stand in your place if any of these categories apply to you if you are able to stand uh anyone um who has in the past year connected on zoom to someone they have not seen in a long time and i'm going to give a hat tip to the 1973 cit class of herzl camp which i was a part that zoomed this year all of us together um being 16 again and none of us looks any different it's a miracle two anyone pick up a new hobby uh in the last year would you please stand of course now i'm just curious to find out what they are but um you can tell me later uh hat tip to my mom who in her 90s is now water coloring in her early 90s i should say that in case she's watching um anyone uh back here for the first time uh in personal worship for the first time in two years please rise oh nice welcome back did anyone get married during the pandemic i mean someone got married those of you at home i please stand is anyone's birthday today oh happy birthday i was that's next on my list anyone's anniversary today apparently it's alana's parents anniversary and they're here so happy anniversary to you were you married on yom kippur because that'd be strange for a rabbi and a cantor no okay good uh although you'd save a lot of money on catering i have to say um is anyone planning on taking a delayed trip in the coming year ahead looking ahead you can stand twice i don't know how you do that but you can stay on your chairs anyone committed to cutting down their amazon bill right here is anyone anticipating a simha between now and rosh hashanah next year which is september 25th of next year anyone having a simcon the next year raise your hand if you're having something on the next year mazel tov anyone having a big birthday in the coming year all right here's the answer to that question on donkey fair what we all know is they are all big birthdays so we should all be standing by now or if you're able to stand standing and uh finally i'm going to place myself next to torah because i am confident we will be praying with a full sanctuary without masks a year from now on september 25th 2022 please god in honor of all of these things we do our torah blessings which can be found on page 208 they will also be on the screen for those of you at home and if you're at home and are comfortable standing i invite you to stand wherever you are as we do the aliyah i will touch the torah for us you may be seated mazel tov on all of your aliotin of course the torah is both an occasion to stand before it enjoy and also to stand before it when we are feeling a sense of sadness and loss and so we take a moment with the torah before us to offer a blessing for healing to those facing illness of body or spirit just pointed out to me as someone who often talks to herself that the wearing of a mask is quite a gift because i can talk to myself and no one thinks i'm talking to them which has actually worked for me um and it actually works here today because sometimes we hesitate to say things out loud in worship but i'm going to invite you to say the name of someone you're praying for out loud or quietly and it's sort of it's sort of private as well because of the mask so we're going to say the names of those we're praying for both those in our communities and our nation but most of all those we know well so take a moment and please say their names out loud my healing come to all as we pray together the words of the misha bearer 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 the renewal and let us continue on page 223 and i ask you to rise as we lift and dress the safer torah this is the torah that moses proclaimed to the people of israel this took place at god's command and by the hand of moses la la la la la la la a it's 240 for i have given you good teachings do not forsake my torah it is a tree of life to those who hold on to it and those who support it are enriched its ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace oh is can we remain standing as we continue with the musa family for the day of atonement on page 307 i a foreign foreign ah remember us for life for you are the ruler who desires life inscribe us in the book of life because you are the god of life my right um foreign um we continue on page 310 with the unatana tokef the prayer that really frames these sacred days we set it on rosh hashanah we repeat it again today on rosh hashanah it is written on yom kippur it is sealed what is written while we know that in this new year people will live and people will die some more gently than others with this prayer we affirm out loud what we know but are often hesitant to say that no human being will live forever that i won't live forever this prayer tells us to be the authors of our own savior in our own book of life because how we live how we love how we give how we lift up others all of that is we are taught all of that is recorded in all matters this prayer we are about to say reminds us that through teshuva we repair relationships through trilog we cope with what we are not able to control and that's daka empowers us to make a difference that's how we transform our precious time into holy time and now we recite the holiness prayer for you are you oh god are a holy ruler foreign my is foreign oh the blast of a great shofar sounded and a still small voice is heard the angels are alarmed by these sounds they are gripped by fear and trembling they quickly assemble the heavenly host proclaiming the day of judgment is here hine yom hadin for even they are not exempt from judgment all human beings passed before you as david inspected his troops in formation as with a flock of sheep whose shepherd makes each sheep pass individually under his staff so do you observe and count and consider the life of every living thing you decide on the fate of every creature and you inscribe and implement your decision and rosh hashanah is written and on the fast day of yom kippur it is sealed how many lives shall end and how many shall begin who shall live and who shall die whose life shall be complete and who is incomplete it is written and on the fast day of yom kippur it is sealed m and who by water who by sword and who by wild beast to by hunger and who by thirst who by storm and who by plague who by strangling and who by stoning who shall have repose and who shall roam who shall be at peace and who shall be torn who shall be tranquil and who shall suffer who shall be impoverished and who shall be well off who shall be brought low and who shall be raised up on rosh hashanah it is written and on the fast day of yom kippur it is sealed and righteous deeds help reduce the severity of the decreed we humans come from dust and return to dust our lives are fragile we live hand to mouth we are like a clay pot easily broken like grass that withers a flower that fades like a shadow that passes a cloud that drifts away like a breeze that dies out dust that scatters like an ephemeral dream but you our god and our ruler are living and eternal we continue on page 324. with the great elenu elenu the word means it's on us it's on our shoulders we are humbled by that obligation it's a privilege to feel the weight especially on this day of atonement that redemption is ours we are partners with god to heal the brokenness and this is our commitment moment we bow as low as our bodies and our spiritual comfort and our physical comfort allows mimicking the actions of the high priest described earlier by rabbi zinko who would enter this holy of holies this sacred private space and on yom kippur would feel the weight of his responsibility and he would lay himself fully on the ground during this moment the great elenu page 324 i invite you as we reach the words and know the page to feel the weight it's on you to bow yourself low is oh foreign oh um my how oh we continue on page three hundred and twenty nine shimako leinu hear our voices i deny our god hear our voices and accept our prayers with loving favor a we sing together a i i don't know i oh la we sing together hear our voices la la la la we continue on page 336 with the dewey prayers the confessionals unique to this day you pray these prayers together for the ways in which we have all transgressed we'll take our time singing the al-khulam together reading the transgressions in the hebrew or the english whichever you prefer looking also between with the print into the white space to add in your own confessionals that may not be reflected in the traditional liturgy page 336 for the sin that we have sent before you we continue together in the hebrew or the english at your own pace in public actions privately knowingly and separately negative thinking for all these sins god of forgiveness forgive us pardon us cleanse us please help us to do better in the coming year who loves for all these sins god of forgiveness forgive us pardon us cleanse us help us to do better in the coming years they for all of your sins god of forgiveness forgive us pardon us cleanse us please help us to do better in the coming year how by being self-centered abuse of trust for all of these sins god of forgiveness forgive us pardon us cleanse us please help us to do better in the coming year hello you may remain standing or certainly you may complete the amidah through page 347 while seated so music okay so uh so is is is in the last few years the 92nd street y has commissioned music videos focused on these days of awe this year's contribution released a couple of weeks ago has already been viewed by hundreds of thousands the video features a beautiful piece written and performed by our own alana aryan entitled we begin again it delivers a message of joy love and hope for the year we have just entered in the opening frames alana writes the words we begin again on the wings of a small origami glider just before it takes flight we begin in hope we begin with believing we begin with our hearts staying open to all of the gifts we're receiving the music video follows the glider's path around new york city on a glorious day leading alana to beautiful places and inspiring people parks and walking paths children singing a choir whose members signed the lyrics and a group of volunteers rebuilding a church destroyed by fire i have surely inflated the videos count because i keep watching it and as i do i ask myself the central question of these holy days where do i need to begin again judaism teaches that the key to vital living is seizing the chance to begin again on yom kippur while staring down at our own morality we affirm that life's renewal begins with a return to our failures and an acknowledgement of our frailty we engage in chuva turning inward to remember missed opportunities people we have ignored avoided or pushed away we enter the fearful space between who we are and who we have always hoped to be our festival liturgy invites us into the powerful metaphor of being judged for life and death it is a metaphor that motivates us to understand how fleeting life is no matter our age we are meant to feel a sense of urgency to bring about healing and repair to reach higher even higher in our personal aspirations and yet and yet my own little paper airplane my teshuva does not always lead me to sweet or inspiring destinations in fact i don't think mine has we begin again written on its wings but rather begin question mark again question mark it's exhausting and enervating examine my failures again try to break ingrain habits oh you've seen my airplane again apologize today only to repeat offenses as soon as tomorrow or maybe next week again isn't teshuva as likely to crush my spirit as it is to send it soaring and yet i'm here you are here we are here once again whatever brought you to this yom kippur community today a longing for community prayer a google search alana's music curiosity nostalgia because your partner made you come this morning to make your parents happy a day off or maybe just where else would i be whatever your reason it is so good that you are here we all belong here so what if what if we could all let go of what we thought brought us here and decide as a group that what we are doing here is the desire the sincere hope to really begin again period full stop that's our yom kippur journey to change the trajectory of our fleeting journey through life by first encountering some uncomfortable views of ourself we begin in faith we begin with returning a man we begin with our minds broken open to lessons we'll never stop learning begin again we begin with our minds broken open to lessons we will never stop learning break it open alana wrote yes that breaking may reveal stuff we would rather not see but having the courage to do chuva is not only a holy endeavor it is of all things of all things it is an act of joy rabban gamliel a first century jewish scholar called yom kippur joyous because it was on this day that we received the second set of tablets remember that moses threw down and shattered the first set of commandments when he came down from mount sinai only to see our ancestors dancing around a golden calf but the holy one despite seeing the ugliest transgression possible gave us a second chance on yom kippur those broken tablets what became of them the talmud tells us the broken tablets were placed in the holy ark they were placed in the holy ark along with the second intact set luchoth the broken tablets were not left behind they were placed in the aronha kodesh the holy ark the most sacred of places and our ancestors schlepped those broken rocks alongside the whole tablets with which they were replaced why are the shattered stones given such kavod such respect a mystical commentary from the 16th century teaches at the holy ark when we stand before it as we do today it's a mirror to the human heart where brokenness and wholeness coexist in sacred harmony where brokenness and wholeness coexist in harmony side by side rashi taught that the intact tablets and the destroyed ones were always touching in the ark they were of a piece always connected in one sacred vessel we each carry two sets of tablets with us through life every person story every person's story no matter what they tell you on facebook is parch les moot and part wholeness and parchment root part brokenness that my friends that's what makes us human perhaps leonard cohen knew this jewish wisdom when he exquisitely captured the spirit of yom kippur in these lyrics ring of the bells that still we can't ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack a crack in everything that's how the light gets in that's how the light gets in there's a crack in everything that's how the light gets in yonkipor is that song landing upon our hearts part whole and heartbroken a blend of joys and disappointment shame delight gratitude despair and everything in between forget perfect broken open we see the realistic landscape actions that bring pride and those that make us cringe isn't it beautiful to think that cringing is holy that's the work we're doing here even if you didn't come here with that plan jewish jewish wisdom instructs us to begin with me repair of the self and then tikkun bite the strengthening of family bonds where that is possible and only then are we able to move to tikkun kahal repairing the jewish community and finally tikkun olam which we hear so much about repairing the world but that's the flight path of atonement we follow on yom kippur and continue through the weeks and months ahead we begin in strength amen we begin seeking justice amen we begin with our arms stretching open to welcome the weary among us begin again begin again may the sweetness of this new year never end begin again begin again may we never take for granted where we've been we begin again our monster's beautiful language guides us the ancient words and melodies move us to look inward but in their abundance they can also distract us from more personal reflections this festival morning i want us to use some directed silence some open space for us to take flight and find our own path to teshuva using the framing of our sages let us answer these questions privately and i urge you to answer them specifically and honestly because that's the hard part to go into specifics as you open the aron hakodesh you know the truth is many of us are moved by the sight of the savior torah we look at it and we think oh it's beautiful but it its beauty doesn't really enter us until we open it and know the words so this morning i'm inviting you to open the safer torah that lives in your heart in your private arana kodesh and look inward to do some tikkunatsumi the repair of you we begin with our hearts staying open to all of the gifts we're receiving what about me needs repair what failure in my life have i grown from knowing my past mistakes and missteps how might i do better start today with just one thing what broken piece of my heart do i reach for today that though i may shudder upon holding it but i work to repair in the coming year reach in take that peace and in this silence just start there oh amen the strengthening of family of a situation within your own home that is strained look inside and identify that moment you regret that silence that needs to be pierced that apology you need to offer or accept that long overdue resolution of an argument what might you say write that on the wings of your personal glider focus on a brokenness that is forgivable fixable and i acknowledge to you that some simply are not but ask how might i diminish the distance between myself and a family member a relative a friend we begin in truth amen we begin with forgiveness amen we begin with our eyes focused open to notice the sacred within us oh amen we begin again the hasidic rabbi rabbinacha mendel of kotz said there is nothing more whole than a broken heart perhaps in the brief silence you felt that wholeness you let some light in in a moment we will rise and chant together the asham new prayer through the years i have been a little startled because i've heard some cantors sing the refrain in a joyful upbeat cadence when the great rob joseph salavechuk was in germany a century ago he too was surprised by the confidence and joy he heard as the congregation saying the al-qaed prayer upon further reflection he explained that such a spirit is appropriate because there is great joy on the days that our sins are forgiven there is great joy in forgiveness as we chant the alphabetical list of transgressions we tap on our heart it's important that we do so gently as an act of love and hope and not punishment let us be mindful that we need an omelette a courageous heart if we are to embrace fully both our strengths and our flaws may we all discover the unique joy of repentance and the unique opportunity yom kippur offers to be gentle with our broken hearts so that we might in this new year do many acts of tikkun may we all be renewed for life as we begin again and begin again begin again may the sweetness of this new year never end begin again begin again may we never take for granted where we've been we begin again again we're going to continue on page 333 for the asham new prayer but before you rise i just want to share with you that you're all going to receive on the way out of the services this morning a little pin that you can wear right over your heart that says begin again and we hope you wear it as a reminder of those broken pieces you held or the whole pieces you saw when you looked into your heart and because again we made these for a full congregation and don't by design have one there's many chances to begin again so if if there's someone you'd like to give one to to have a new beginning i urge you to take a second one and give to that person as well we continue on page 333 rising for the asham new prayer and we will leave it to alana if she wants to do it joyfully or slowly depending on her particular interpretation heavy me oh is we oh i she continue on page 345 as we approach the end of the morning service we close with words of blessing on the top of the page the priestly blessing hereto words said by the high priest in these sacred hours and we offer them to you that you too may have a year of blessing as you begin again you can see the second blessing is the gift the picture of the of the pin is is on the screen god bless you and watch over you in your wholeness and your brokenness together may god's light shine in you may it enter in all the places where you open yourself to the holy one that's where the light gets in together is may god give you the great gift of tikkun of personal repair and the exquisite gift of shlaimut of wholeness of peace in the coming year friends are yusker memorial service will begin at one o'clock as we will recall then those who made room for us in their lives we wish you a purposeful and meaningful fast i remind you there is a conversation that will be led by rabbi rubenstein at four o'clock today i believe in the room next door and i urge you to come back for nila what i think is the most beautiful service of the year as the gates close thank you all so much for being present and for praying so beautifully this morning here and wherever you are with us from have a good fast good morning thank you ten to one upstairs you

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