Yom Kippur Traditional Morning Services

many more i'm sure joining us online and many more will join us throughout the morning we're going to get started now with the morning blessings on page 37. is page 44. mimi or era we invite mourners both here and at home to please rise for mourner's kaddish page 46 you may be seated we now continue our service on page 60. foreign hallelujah hallelujah at the bottom is hallelujah is m foreign foreign and we'll join together in a moment on page 69. okay we continue now on page 69 and on on the high holy days we begin with the word god as king spirituality emerges from the experience of awe and wonder and a sense of grandeur and amazement to stand before the mystery of being and life itself and so we come to these high holy days knowing that there is something greater than ourselves in this world something a higher purpose that is a mystery to us and that something is asked of us on this day we begin our shahri service on page 69 hamillah m i is a is page 710 my you may be seated on um is my we gather together the four corners of our tillet as we imagine gathering together again from the four corners of the earth page 76 at the bottom is i of my the foreign foreign foreign m foreign is we'll join together in a moment at the arrows on page 80. tell is is is we uh invite you now to continue with your personal recitation of the amidah what oh i'm sorry we are starting together we are going to start together on page 81 and then we'll continue through sections of personal prayer page 80. i'm sorry i'm very confused it's page 252 for yom kippur i will wake up soon i i have the excuse of not having had my coffee this morning page 252. hello oh um um me we turn to page 256. uh foreign foreign foreign foreign page 257 uh foreign oh oh my is foreign foreign on we invite now to continue quietly in your personal recitation of the amidah through page 270. so so oh so so so so so so so so is jose we invite you to please rise here and at home as we open the arc page 271. new foreign ah we so is we now will continue with our tourist service we'll remain standing as we turn to page 274 we will call forward steve and ellen finer to open the ark and we call forward beverly hartsman and howard zeppelin to close the ark i will be in the tourist service now on page 274. okay foreign 275 foreign there are i foreign help us and strengthen us so that we always strive for peace may there be harmony among all peoples their companions and friends may there be no discord among the members of our families you who establish peace above extend peace upon us and the whole world may we draw close to you and your torah in truth and may we all be bound together carrying out your will wholeheartedly master of peace bless us with peace and let us say amen foreign m i of hello is go ahead is is he knew i oh you may be seated i want to take a moment to welcome you if you're joining us in the last hour so i want to welcome you both here and at home uh as for our yom kippur services this morning we hope that you're comfortable and feel safe here in the in the sanctuary and at home as well we're going to begin our torah reading which you can find in your in your moxor on page 278 describing the rituals of this day in ancient times when the coin gadol the high priest would perform his ritual on behalf of the people and among those rituals was to send a goat into the into the wilderness with the sins of the people rabbi alan liu speaks of the way in which ritual renders the invisible visible those things that are intangible our guilt our sin our feelings of remorse those things that are hard to put our arms around we we concretize in ritual itself not because it has magical powers but because it helps us to focus our energy in something that we can understand and and put into into tangible form we seek forgiveness on this day and we dramatize this in our torah reading this morning found on page 278 in mahsor lev shalem for the first aliyah we will be calling upon peter gottlieb again uh man foreign um um for the second aliyah we call upon luis morris oh foreign and to fred who read uh john solomon will be reading this aliyah and we call i'm sorry that's right and neil price we call up for the aliyah it's a pleasure to welcome you under the beam is oh is is amen and joan reading uh the next aliyah will be read by rovin geller on page 280 revie steve toltz is is foreign for the fifth aliyah we're on page 281 uh fred will be reading this aliyah and we call upon arnold goldstein uh for the fifth aliyah yamad abraham leib ben foreign yes my higher for the sixth aliyah arnold uh for the sixth ali i would call upon ken lazier she foreign is as we bring forward the second safer torah and we call forward um to lift and dress the first safer torah didi and steve zeichner foreign foreign foreign m she before we call up the mafter aliyah anytime that we are reading torah is an auspicious moment for prayers for healing i'd like to take a moment to offer amishabhara for all those in our world and in our lives who are in need of healing in a year that has been full of illness of course around the world we hold in our hearts those who have suffered from the pandemic and their families and all who care for them will remain standing now for misha barack page 283 abraham may the one who blessed our ancestors abraham isaac and jacob sarah rebecca rachel and leah bless all who are ill and remove from them any sickness any sickness heal their bodies forgive their transgressions send blessing and good fortune to all the works of their hands as well as to their all their brothers and sisters people israel and let us say amen for the mafter aliyah we will you can have a seat we will call forward roven geller and scott miller will be reading them after aliyah the mafter as is always the case on the uh on the holidays is a selection from parashat pinchas chapter 29 of uh of the book of um of numbers describing the various musa offerings for the for the holidays and um we'll pick that up on page 282 the maftir uh chapter 29 verse 7. for those of you following along at home and we call upon roving geller yeah kazakhstan ah we'll ask you to please rise as we lift and dress the second safer torah okay we'll call forward jessica geller and paul leveson to uh to lift and dress the second sir for torah yamdu ahmadi i i as the safer torah is set down you may be seated you'll find the haftara for yom kippur on page 284 in the mahzor from the prophet isaiah who makes an audacious claim he upholds the value of ritual as we saw in our torah portion and i spoke earlier about the value of ritual to concretize what is ineffable and intangible here the prophet isaiah takes the opposite direction he criticizes ritual that is hollow that is perfunctory that is performa he exhorts the people telling them this is not the fast that i desire you fast you think you're pious you beat your chest you come to shule but you go about your business immorally you desecrate the sabbath yet you want to be seen as pious he criticizes the people he says the the the the fast that i seek is the fast that unleashes freedom and human dignity that lets the slave go free that feeds the hungry and close the naked to share your food with the hungry and to take in the stranger this is the fast that god seeks but it isn't one or the other of course our ritual practice should reinforce our ethical practice the torah says that we should place the words of the torah upon our heart and hasidic rebbe says that why ask the question why do we place the words on our heart and not in our heart to teach us that when we when we allow when we allow our heart to open that is when the words of torah will penetrate so we place the words of torah upon our heart in the hopes that through our spiritual work we will allow those words to actually penetrate our hearts isaiah is saying that the fasting should train our minds to have compassion and to seek justice in the world the purpose of our ritual is to train our minds to do that we'll begin our after out reading uh and we call forward reuben geller to do that on page 284. this halfterra is in memory of the soldiers of the yom kippur war and the other wars so hey foreign uh if be is here before we proceed to the sermon i'd like to invite us to offer prayer for our country and the prayer for the state of israel you'll find those on page 288 invite you to please rise and join me in the left-hand margin on page 288. our god and god of our ancestors we ask your blessing for our country for its government for its leaders and advisers and for all who exercise just in rightful authority teach them insights from your torah that they may administer all affairs of state fairly that peace and security happiness and prosperity justice and freedom may forever abide in our midst creator of all flesh bless all the inhabitants of our country with your spirit may citizens of all races and creeds forge a common bond in true harmony to banish hatred and bigotry and to safeguard the ideals and free institutions that are pride and glory of our country may this land under your providence be an influence for good throughout the world uniting all people in peace and freedom helping them to fulfill the vision of your prophet nations shall not lift up sword against nation and they shall experience no war no more and let us say amen we'll remain standing for prayer for the state of israel page 289. is foreign my foreign m you can have a seat and i want to wish you a good yanta on behalf of myself and rabbi don cantor eisner and all of us here at hea it gets a little sweaty under there in the late 1800s early 1900s the jewish community of denver faced a really big problem at the time the neighborhoods along west colfax which were not yet incorporated into the city of denver were dotted with countless small synagogues each corresponding to a different little shuttle or region where the jews had come from some were nothing more than a storefront or even a private home converted into a chapel the lithuanians had uh the the lithuanians i'm sorry the first synagogue on west colfax was zera abraham a hasidic shul made up of the jews who had come to denver after failing as farmers in cotopaxi the lithuanians had agudat te fera israel was for the polish immigrants the zionists in town had dorsey sion yad akhas was for the romanians who fled the pogroms of kishnev and 18 in the 1880s and the ostrofer jews from poland at beth jacob there were a lot of synagogues on the west side and a huge upheaval occurred in the community the lithuanians and the ostrovers joined together to purchase a building in which they had planned to have a school and they shared the space for services the problem was in the way that the two groups pronounced one yiddish vowel the litvex called their synagogue shule but the ostroverse pronounced it shiel like my grandmother did the ostriver's accent amused the litvax who purportedly snickered and mimicked the uh their pronunciation the ostroverse thought that the litvex were a bunch of snobs who looked their nose down at polish jews things were said feelings were hurt and one of their rabbis was deeply insulted and during passover services one year a fist fight broke out between the two factions and the police had to intervene true story the litvax got braggis as they say in yiddish and broke away forming their own shul and it was definitely not a shield the stories of the old west side paint a picture of a lively and sometimes raucous place by the 1920s west colfax was swelling with a wave upon wave of new immigrants mostly very poor and orthodox the wealthier more secular jews lived east of the platte river but the poor jews of west colfax had a big problem they needed to educate their american-born children who were not invested in the introducing battles over yiddish pronunciation that their parents had and they wanted to mingle among the other jews it finally took the women of the neighborhood to bring the community together in 1925 the beth the beth david sisterhood passed around the pushka or some pronunciation depending on your yiddish dialect they collected nickels and dimes to raise six thousand dollars for the purchase of a vacant lot on west colfax and mead street in 1928 they began construction of a school and synagogue building that came to be known as the hebrew educational alliance and rather than hire a rabbi from the old country they recruited from a yeshiva in chicago in 1932 rabbi emanuel lederman stepped off a train at union station where he was greeted by a large delegation and that was captured in a historic photograph in which rabbi lederman who was over six feet tall towers over all the immigrant little jews from eastern europe he was fresh out of seminary with little life experience and even less experience running a synagogue or a school and if you can believe it when rabbi lederman stepped off that train in 1932 he was 23 years old when i came here in 19 at the age of 34 the old folks used to call me the pisher rabbi i can only imagine what they said about rabbi lederman besides his age rabbi lederman was conspicuously different from any other orthodox hood who had they ever seen on the west side he did not wear a beard and he was college educated in fact he went on to earn a doctorate here at the isle of school in 1937. rabbi laterman knew yiddish and occasionally preached in the momolation but he gave his sermons in english he was an innovator the school taught boys and girls together and the language of instruction was english he introduced mixed seeding in the sanctuary which was revolutionary for orthodox communities at the time i imagine that some people perceived him as a radical and despite all of this or perhaps because of it he was wildly successful growing the congregation to a hub of jewish life with his wife bess at his side rabbi lederman retired in 1979 after 47 years of service i'm endlessly fascinated by the history of the jews of denver the stories of the beth david sisterhood putting their nickels and dimes together to create this organization is a great example of what people can do when they get together to solve a problem we're all here today nearly 90 years later thanks to the foresight and courage of those women and men who decided to stop fighting over yiddish and build a synagogue where their children could thrive the beth david's sisterhood saw a problem they talked they organized they cooperated they fundraised they planned and built and they surely had a lot of arguments and they had committees and meeting after meeting after meeting and more disagreements and more meetings and from all that work they created a venerable public institution for the betterment of their neighborhood this spirit of cooperation across lines of difference is the essence of a healthy community on rosh hashanah i spoke about the spiritual preparation we need to heal from the psychological and social impacts of the pandemic last night i spoke about how cultivating these practices of listening awareness and empathy will help us to reconnect with one another and re-establish relationships today i want to talk about what we are capable of when we come together in those relationships to solve problems the last few years have revealed to us that our society is pulling apart it feels like the pandemic which forced us to distance ourselves from other human beings is the culmination of decades of growing loneliness and disconnection among americans and as a result it seems like we are no longer able to solve even the simplest of problems and we certainly cannot solve the big problems that face us like climate change poverty structural inequalities racism women's rights affordable housing and the list goes on and on when the french philosopher and when the french political philosopher alexi de tocqueville toured the united states in the night in the 1830s he marveled at the strength of this infant democracy civil society he attributed the flourishing of american democracy in large part to what he called voluntary associations all the various ways that americans would organize themselves into groups to accomplish their goals to organize industries to form clubs to build churches and schools and hospitals not only were these non-governmental groups vital to meeting the needs of a country the practice of voluntary association was a small scale exercise in democracy i believe that synagogues like ours and other houses of worship have a unique and special role in this moment and in the months ahead and in the years ahead in the monumental project of rebuilding social cohesion and restoring the heart of our democracy through volunteerism collective problem solving and a spirit of public service and civic engagement you see the women of the beth david sisterhood didn't just build a school in a synagogue the institution they founded became the incubator out of which countless leaders in the denver jewish and non-jewish communities emerged the children of those yiddish-speaking immigrants went on to become educated professionals they built successful businesses they used their wealth to fund institutions like the jcc jewish family service in shalom park they became leaders in civic organizations and in government and it was rabbi lederman who inspired them rabbi manuel lederman was not just a great teacher and preacher he was an american civic leader like the ones that tookville praised he was progressive reaching out well beyond the orthodox community to collaborate with colleagues of all denominations he was a zionist before that was common in the orthodox community in fact after world war ii the hebrew educational alliance gave rabbi lederman a paid sabbatical so he and his family could live in paris for a year where he worked for the joint distribution committee settling refugees from the holocaust in israel and rabbi lederman also believed that the jews of denver should be citizens of the city contributing to the civic and cultural life of our shared home he was an activist on behalf of civil rights and in opposition of anti-semitism he was instrumental in the founding of the denver symphony and perhaps he was most proud of his work on behalf of the health and well-being of denverites he was appointed by three successive mayors to the denver board of health and hospitals which we all know today as denver health and he was the president of that board for several years in 1994 denver health honored rabbi lederman for his service to the people of denver by naming the emergency department after him until a few years ago when it was renamed after another donor it was called the rabbi manuel lederman regional trauma center and if you drove down spear boulevard you would see that on the side of the building anytime i passed by i was very proud to be walking in rabbi lederman's footsteps rabbi lederman understood that it is a jewish moral obligation not only to care for jews it is also a moral obligation to care for our neighbors he knew very well the torah's injunction to care for the orphan and the widow commanding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked he lived the ethics of our tradition that teach that we must care for the stranger having once been strangers ourselves in the land of egypt rabbi lederman led in the greatest tradition of our prophets like jeremiah who preaching to the jewish community in exile in babylonia exhorted his kinsmen to invest themselves in their new home seek the welfare of the city to which i have exiled you says jeremiah and pray to the lord in its behalf for it is for in its prosperity you shall prosper in a post-pandemic world we need to recapture the spirit of citizenship and civic engagement that tocqueville admired we need to be inspired by the grassroots problem-solving spirit that compelled the beth david sisterhood to create the hebrew educational alliance we need to honor the legacy of rabbi manuel lederman by living our values and engaging with our neighbors making this synagogue and judaism itself a public good that is why today i am proud of our alliance where we have a small but dedicated group that hasn't waited for the pandemic to be over our tikkun olam hea connect group has been working to address the housing crisis in denver the tikkun olam group is a collaboration of congregants who answered the call to create purpose-driven small groups like the beth david's sisterhood they looked around and identified a problem that needed to be solved and they went to work they chose to focus their efforts to repair the world by helping those in denver's unhoused communities last night you heard nora schrutt one of the group's leaders share their accomplishment the group has packed over 1 000 1 000 bags of hope with food and hygiene products and made a hundred lunches distributed through interfaith alliance this summer they partnered with colorado village cooperative to provide food and other supplies for safe outdoor spaces space encampments at regis university and at park hill methodist church in partnership with temple mica rabbi dolan karen blank laura infant and i visited the regis site and i was proud to stand with a coalition of faith groups in support of the park hill encampment the problem of affordable housing and homelessness is urgent and growing it is estimated that over 6 000 people at any given time are unhoused in the city of denver alone and ten thousand people in the state of colorado are unhoused an alarming number of those in house are families with children and veterans who serve their country we've all seen the tent encampments springing up in parks and along freeway embankments the problem of homelessness homelessness in our community is real it affects us all and it is something that we have the power to address and our tikkun olam group is walking the walk they are leading the way you can learn more about the tikkun alam group on our website and in the postcards that were distributed to you and your moxors they would love your support and participation i'm incredibly proud of our dedicated tikkun olam group and the work they're doing and i'm personally committed to supporting their efforts this year and there's so much that we can do as a synagogue the tikkun alam with its focus on the problem of of the unhoused is just one initiative we also have a very active facet committee chaired by joe levy that supports our members in time of need and personal distress and there are countless ways you can get involved with these groups and others ranging from social groups like our wine club or our mahjong group our israeli dance crew and committees that support our educational programming our youth groups and provide greeting and security on shabbat when you see those greeters and the guys doing security outside thank them for their service imagine if we had several hea connect groups dedicated to solving problems in our synagogue in our neighborhoods and in our city imagine the impact we as a synagogue could have when we organize ourselves and our resources to make this shul and this city a better place for our fellow citizens you see the capacity of people to listen to one another to identify shared challenges to organize to solve problems also supports the foundation of a democratic society the educator and philosopher parker palmer calls these capacities habits of the heart the habits of the heart that support democratic values palmer writes citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that i am a member of a vast community of human and non-human beings that depend on that i depend on for essentials i cannot provide myself what tocqueville observed when he traveled through america was that voluntary organizations not only helped solve problems large and small they fostered the practices and dispositions of citizenship that are needed in a democratic society associations have to figure out how to assign roles they have to make decisions together they manage finances they have to be accountable to constituents in short they turned regular people into citizens perhaps the most noble expression of being a human being in short they turn they they turn regular folks into into citizens that have a stake in the well-being of their community the people who built and grew and nurtured the hebrew educational alliance of the west side created their this organization out of the sweat and hard work meeting and meeting and meeting after meeting and committees and more committees and more meetings they elected successive presidents and wards they discussed and fought and also dreamed and designed and planned the community of west colfax was indeed a raucous and lively place and of course the story of the hebrew educational alliance didn't end with rabbi lederman's retirement in 1979 i read an essay rabbi lederman wrote for the 40th anniversary of the congregation in it he spoke of how much had changed since 1932. the problems that needed to be solved the jobs that needed to be done changed too and a new era of leadership would be needed after rabbi lederman the congregation hired rabbi goldberger and neil price who shepherded the alliance during a period of transition having practiced as a licensed family therapist for 10 years rabbi goldberger was well suited to the challenge of his uh of his years uh and and with neil price at his side was pretty much the only and neil price at his side was pretty much the only staff he had he faced a new problem the grandchildren and great grandchildren no longer lived in the neighborhood with their success came mobility and a flight to the suburbs the grandchildren were more assimilated and less traditionally observant with his gentle charm and emotional intelligence rabbi goldberger helped his congregation to prepare themselves for a sad goodbye to the west side and a new generation of leaders arose to meet the challenge of their day and like their parents they had to organize they had to fundraise have tons of conversations countless coffees and lunches at bret and breakfasts at zadie's and at the bagel deli and by the pool at the jcc and at kiddish luncheons all those places of encounter of which i spoke last night they formed small groups not unlike our hea connect groups those were purpose-driven gatherings in living rooms and around tables and like their parents they also fought they struggled over leadership generated ideas made plans shredded those plans and made new plans not unlike the beth david sisterhood they passed around the pushka only now they needed much more than nickels and dimes i can't name all the names for fear of leaving some of them out but their names adorn the hallways and walls of this building and you should know their names they were a new generation of builders and dreamers and like their parents they solved their own unique set of problems they too hired a very different kind of rabbi than the one they knew on the west side in 1994 they hired rabbi dolan a conservative rabbi who would lead them in a new direction and build a brand new institution just as rabbi lederman had done the community rallied problem solved and fought and dreamed they built this beautiful building that has stood the set the the test of time people joined committees had meetings and more meetings and more coffees and more lunches and more conversations and more arguments in more people's living rooms and collected more nickels and dimes and this congregation embraced egalitarianism the full participation of women and girls on this bma they figured out how to open a successful preschool in a vibrant religious school and youth program like the old west side the alliance has been a hub of spirituality and religious practice of community and cultural activities this community has also invited innovation and deeper engagement in spirituality and rabbi dolan has also been an esteemed jewish communal and civic leader like his predecessors we together in the years ahead will pick up the mantle of those generations of leaders and their rabbis and we invite you to exercise citizenship by joining in the work ahead we are once again living in a time of change and transition and we will do what the jews of the west side did a century ago we will work our way out of this pandemic by listening to one another by cultivating compassion by connecting with one another and engaging in meaningful friendships and bonds of community we will face new challenges for sure and we will solve today's problems we will hire new clergy innovate to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse community welcome interfaith families and lgbtq jews renew relationships explore new forms of spirituality in music and in personal mindfulness practices we will form small intentional groups of gathering and we will do the work of civic engagement and at times it will be raucous and at times we will disagree and we will have lots and lots and lots of conversations and lots and lots of meetings and as i said last night lots of coffee dates like our ancestors we will organize we will plan we will form committees and groups and cultivate new leadership and we will gather in this space once more and fill it with life and vitality and friendship and in the process we will make an impact on the lives of our members our jewish community and the city that we live in we will restore our own spirits and inspire ourselves to restore our community and this wonderful city that gave birth to one of the most special and unique jewish communities in american history it is then that we will live up to the words of the prophet isaiah that we read in our haftarah this morning which reminds us that pious observance of ritual is not enough our religiosity must be in service of a greater good is such the fast i desire asks god in the book of isaiah a day for people to starve their bodies no this is the fast i desire to unlock the fetters of wickedness and untie the cords of the oak it is to share your bread with the hungry and to take the wandering poor into your home when you seek when you see the naked to clothe them and not to ignore your kin only then shall your light burst forth like the dawn and your healing spring up quickly this my friends is the work we have ahead of us as we emerge from this pandemic when we cultivate awareness through mindfulness practices of which i spoke on rosh hashanah we are better prepared to connect with one another forming a community of caring restoring our capacity to trust and to cooperate we will solve the problems of our generation and ensure the future of our children and cultivate the habits of the heart that will restore the soul of our democracy fortified by our community we then can turn to our world and make a lasting impact on other human beings this is our mission and i look forward to the journey ahead with all of you may we be sealed for a truly good year thank you we'll take a short pause now we'll transition to our yisker service um some have a custom of stepping out you're welcome to do that at this time and uh the rest of you please take up we'll ask you to take up your ysker books as we invite kender eisner forward to begin the esker service uh we call upon rob neyman to hold the torah hey le me is is i me please join me on page 8 of your booklet on the left hand side we remember them at the rising of the sun and it's going down we remember them at the blowing of the wind and the chill of winter we remember them at the opening of the buds and the birth of spring we remember them at the shining of the sun and the warmth of summer we remember them as the rustling of the leaves and the beauty of autumn we remember them at the beginning of the year and at its end we remember them as long as we live they too will live for they are now part of us as we remember them when we are weary and in need of strength we remember them when we are lost and sick at heart we remember them when we have joy we crave to share we remember them when we have decisions that are difficult to make we remember them when we have achievements that are based on theirs we remember them as long as we live they too will live for they are not part of us as we remember them we now invite you to recite your individual yiscor for your loved ones we invite you to take some time now you'll find the yisker prayer on page 11 and 12. he's is this in memory of all congress of all of our congregants we recite the score on page fourteen please join me on the right hand side on page 15 uh responsibly in the italics in memory of congregants may god remember the souls of our friends members of this holy congregation who have gone to the their eternal home may their souls be bound up in the bond of life may these moments of meditation strengthen the ties that link us to their memory may they rest in peace forever in god's presence amen amen exalted compassionate god comfort the bereaved families of this congregation help us to perpetuate everything that was worthy in the lives of those no longer with us when we remember this day may their memory endure as a blessing and let us say amen a prayer on behalf in the memory of the six million lost in the shoah oh exalted compassionate god grant perfect peace in your sheltering presence among the holy and the pure whose radiance is like the heavens to the souls of all the men women and children of the house of israel who were slaughtered strangled and burned in the shoah may they rest in paradise master of mercy may they find eternal shelter beneath your sheltering wings and may their souls be bound up in the bond of life adonai is their portion may they rest in peace and let us say we invite reuven geller forward to offer a prayer for in memory of soldiers of the idf today it is 48 years since the yom kippur war and we will say an el moder in memory of theirs of the soldiers and those that came before and after them is m we bless the memories of all those who served on behalf of our people and let us say amen amen we now will recite an el male ratha meme uh i'm sorry yes on behalf of all of our loved ones page 16. m exalted compassionate god grant perfect peace in your sheltering presence among the holy and the pure whose radiance is like the heavens to the souls of all those we have recalled today may their memory be a blessing and may they rest in paradise master of mercy may they find eternal shelter beneath your sheltering wings and may their souls be bound up in the bonds of eternal life underneath their portion may they rest in peace and let us say amen we'll join together in a moment in the translation after cantor recites the psalm 23. yes a mother foreign is i me i please join me in the translation on page 17 adonai is my shepherd i shall not want god gives me repose and green pastures and guides me over calm waters god will revive my spirit and direct me on the right path for that is god's way though i walk in the valley of the shadow of death i fear no harm for you are at my side your staff and your rod comfort me you prepare a banquet for me in the presence of my foes you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows surely goodness and kindness shall be my portion all the days of my life and i shall dwell in the house of adonai in the fullness of time we now will uh recite the mourner's cottage together on page 18. is is love love i including the one we just read as if to say la ela means beyond but we go even further beyond than the beyond that we thought we could go and so i invite you to think about that beyond how far you can go when we think about the person that we want to be in the next coming year the thoughts that we have um how can we go a little bit further beyond so i invite you to sing the song with me um as a call-in response and with each la ela we go a little bit further we get to go a little bit further up and beyond so repeat after me a lay thank you cancer that concludes our yisker service and we will now continue with uh the conclusion of our tourist service page 296 the is is thank you me we now remain standing as we transition to the musoff service page 298 hatsukari if oh foreign we now invite you to continue with the personal recitation of the amidah that begins on page 300 and concludes on page 311 i'll take a few moments of individual prayer so hmm hmm so we invite you to continue uh your personal recitation of the amidah as the cantor offers up the hiney prayer on page 312. is is hello is foreign wow is to feel loved i'll ask you to please rise as you're able page 313 as we begin the repetition of the um no foreign love time she me me me is remain standing now as the ark will be opened again and we invite our choir up led by the appear as we approach the unatana token page 315. foreign my is foreign is oh m is oh is me um me amen foreign oh our praise of you accords with your essential nature slow to anger and easily appeased you do not desire the death of the sinner but rather that we change our ways and live you wait until the day of death and if one returns you accept that person back immediately truly you are their creator and know the nature of your creatures that they are only flesh and blood we'll close the ark now and remain standing as we turn to the kedusha on page 317 foreign foreign oh my oh foreign foreign foreign we rise now for the elenu at this time uh if you wish to participate in the bowing to the ground uh you can find a place in the aisles we ask you to continue to stay at a safe distance from one another and um we'll rise now page 325. oh i foreign foreign page 326 we now arrive at the abode service which invokes the memory of the ancient temple service of which we read in this week's in this morning's parsha the world of god is great and holy of all the lands of the world the land of israel was set aside to be holy for us and in the land of israel the holiest city in jerusalem in jerusalem the holiest place was the holy temple and the holiest site in the temple was the holy of holies our tradition is that the world that in the world there are 70 nations and of them israel was set aside to be holy unto god the holiest of the people israel is the tribe of levites and the holiest of the levites are the priests and among the priests the holiest was the high priest the lunar year has 354 days some days are set aside as holy days holier than the festivals are the shabbatot and the holiest of the shabbat is the day of atonement the shabbat shabbat of shabbat there are 70 languages in the world and of them hebrew was chosen as our holy language the holiest of all things written in the hebrew language is the holy torah in the torah the holiest part is the ten commandments and the holiest of all the words in the ten commandments is the name of god at a certain hour on a certain day of the year all of these four holinesses met together this took place on the day of atonement at the hour when the high priest entered the holy of holies and there revealed the divine name and if he invoked god's name in purity all of israel was forgiven wherever a person stands to lift up eyes to heaven that place is a holy of holies every human being created by god in god's own image is a high priest each day a person's life of each person's life is the day of atonement each one of us can face god with the language of the heart each one of us can be forgiven each one of us can achieve atonement and be made pure in the eyes of god we'll continue now with the um prayer of the high priest on page 333 at the bottom of the left on the left side i invite you to respond responsively and this was the prayer of the high priest as he emerged on the day of atonement from the holy of holies may it be your will adonai our god and god of our ancestors to grant us with all your people israel a year of abundance a year of blessing a year of good fortune a year of bountiful harvest a year of prosperity and success a year of assembly in your holy place a year of song a year of fulfilling life a year of dew and rain and sun a year of sweet fruit at the harvest a year of atonement and forgiveness for all our sins a year in which our bread and water are blessed a year of rest a year of consolation a year of abundant joy a year of delight a year in which the fruit of our womb and of our earth are blessed a year in which our going and coming are blessed a year in which our community achieves salvation a year in which your mercy depends upon descends upon us a year of peace and tranquility a year in which we go up in joy to your land a year in which your people israel will not require support from one another or from other people the work of their hands being fully blessed and to the people of sharon he would say may it be or will it and i are god and god of our ancestors that our homes not become their graves we will recite now the 13 attributes of god's mercy page 336. foreign foreign is on this day of atonement we also call to mind the memories of those who gave their lives in god's name as victims of anti-semitism and persecution in the words of escara page 337. anti-semitism and hatred of jews continues in our world to this very day and we call to mind the memories of all those who are martyrs of our people the song that cantor is going to sing was composed as a memorial to the victims of the tree of life shooting some years ago now and um and stands as words that that apply uh to this day and in memory of all those who were victims of anti-semitism so invite you to sing along with cantor spirit hear my prayer help these words heal someone out there i am but a voice just to cry in the air but i sing on the lips in this pain we share oh sweet friends come and dry your eyes and hold each other by this tree of life i'm angry and tired of this grey divide but i sing on the list with love on our side oh sweet souls who feel broken now we'll heal together somewhere somehow time and again we have been let down but we sing nonetheless still and still proud oh sweet spirit hear my prayer help these words heal someone out there you now will recite the mourner's kaddish that is found on page 244 on the left hand side invoking the memory of those killed in the showa the various camps and in various sites of historic massacres anti-semitic massacres page 344 on the left-hand side it's is on page 345 i'm sorry page 346 schmuckling my there foreign i don't know the ark is closed at this time we call forward koanim who wish to participate in the egypthany to prepare for that we'll continue on page 347. hello m i ah a a me hello m we joined together page 348 in the middle she you now turn to page 351 i invite you to join me responsibly in the english on the left hand side page 351 we have sinned against you willingly and unwillingly and we have sinned against you through hardening our hearts we have sinned against you thoughtlessly and we have sinned against you in idle chatter we have sinned against you through sexual immorality and we have sinned against you openly and in private we have sinned against you knowingly and deceitfully and we have sinned against you by the way we talk we have sinned against you by defrauding others and we have sinned against you in our innermost thoughts we have sinned against you through forbidden trusts and we have sinned against you through empty confident we have sinned against you by scorning parents and teachers and we have sinned against you purposely and by mistake we have sinned against you by resorting to violence and we have sinned against you by public desecration of your name we have sinned against you through foul speech and we have sinned against you through foolish talk we have sinned against you through pursuing the impulse to evil and we have sinned against you wittingly and unwittingly for all these sins forgiving god forgive us pardon us grant us atonement foreign foreign page 352 we have sinned against you by throwing off all restraint and we have sinned against you actually judging from others we have sinned against you by plotting against others against your selfishness we have sinned against you through superficiality we have sinned against you through sovereignness we have sinned against you by rushing to do evil through gospel we have sinned against you through empty promises and we have sinned against you through baseless hatred we have sinned against you by betraying a trust we have sinned against jesus for all these sins forgiving god forgive us pardon us grant us atonement page 354 you can have a seat briefly foreign is foreign foreign oh we rise now for the blessing of the khan name hello oh foreign amen ah ah foreign yes oh we rise now as the arc is open 358 and we thank our quran middle of page 357 shalom is is is is is foreign is oh page 358. who are men oh i um oh age 359 is oh foreign is is me that concludes our morning service for yom kippur this afternoon we will reconvene for minha at 5 40 5 15 at 5 15 and then um neila will begin at 6 45 we look forward to seeing you please continue to have an easy and meaningful fast we do have to ask you though to uh you

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