Join Us For High Holy Days 2011/5772
Temple Beth Tikvah welcomes all individuals and families to join us for High Holy Days services, children’s activities, adult learning and food-filled celebrations.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur represent two of the most important days of the year for the Jewish community. The High Holy Days are not just a celebration of the Jewish New Year but also serve as a time of contemplation, reflection and aspiration for the upcoming year. The theme of this remarkable 10-day period is “Teshuvah,” a beautiful Hebrew word that means “to return” or “to turn around.”
We are thrilled that Rabbi Glenn Ettman will lead Rosh Hashanah services on September 28th and 29th. Cantor Margaret Bruner of Pacific Grove, CA will join Rabbi Ettman on the pulpit.
Rabbi Ettman, together with Cantor Bruner, will lead Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur, October 7th and 8th.
Please join us, also, in supporting our High Holy Days social-action project, a drive to help provide food and shelter for residents of the Bethlehem Inn, the largest homeless shelter in Deschutes County. Click here for details.
High Holy Days Reservation Information
Temple Beth Tikvah's High Holy Days services are open to everyone and are free of charge for TBT members.
If you are not a current member, you may attend any or all of the above services for a minimum donation of $50 per adult or $100 per family. Should you choose to join TBT in 2011, these donations will apply to your membership. We welcome your participation.
Members and non-members are invited to Break-the-Fast dinner for $15 per adult and $8 per child from 5 to 12 years of age. There is no charge for children under age 5. The charge for families with more than one child under age 12 is a maximum of $40.
To make your reservations,call 541-388-8826, and a representative of Temple Beth Tikvah will return your call. Click here to make your reservation online
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The Meaning of High Holy Days
Rosh Hashanah, which literally means "head of the year," marks the Jewish New Year. It is a time when we return to where we started, take a moment to see where we have gone and hope and pray for where we are going to in the coming year. On Rosh Hashanah, we hear the sound of the Shofar, offer up prayers for the coming year and come together as a community. On Rosh Hashanah, the word "Teshuvah," meaning "return," reminds us that we come back to the same place, not in an exact circle but rather a spiral, as we continue to grow in our lives.
Ten days later comes Yom Kippur, considered the most important holiday in the entire Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is a great day of introspection and atonement. It is the day when we say we are sorry to those whom we have wronged during the year and to ourselves for things that we have done. As Jews, we find it amazing that built into the very fabric of our community is a day devoted to saying we are sorry. We are supposed to "turn around" (Teshuvah) and promise to not do it again.
The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides explains that true Teshuvah comes not just by saying you are sorry or promising to not make the same mistake twice, but by living out those promises and not making the same mistake again. Since Yom Kippur is a day of introspection, it is customary, for all those who are able, to fast. By refraining from food we are better able to focus on the lofty, powerful and truly awesome concerns of the holiday season. Yom Kippur concludes with a service of Yizkor, memory, for all those in our lives who have died. A break-the-fast celebration where we celebrate having made it through this season follows the concluding service.
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High Holy Days Schedule 2011-5772
All High Holy Days services will be held at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Bend at 680 NW Bond Street.
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ROSH HASHANAH
Wednesday, September 28th
7:00 p.m.: Erev Rosh Hashanah Service followed by Oneg
Thursday, September 29th
10:00 a.m.: Rosh Hashanah Service
2:00 p.m.: Children's Service
4:00 p.m.: Tashlich Service (Pioneer Park, at the corner of Wall & Portland).
Tashlich means "casting off." The previous year's sins are symbolically cast off by throwing pieces of bread, or a similar food item, into a large, natural body of flowing water, such as a river, lake, sea or ocean.
YOM KIPPUR
Friday, October 7
7:00 p.m.: Kol Nidre
Saturday, October 8th: Yom Kippur
10:00 a.m.: Morning Service
12:30 p.m.: Adult Education
2:00 p.m.: Children/Family Service
3:15 p.m.: Afternoon Service
4:45 p.m.: Memorial/Yizkor Service
Yizkor is remembrance, when those who have lost a close relative recite prayers.
5:30 p.m.: Neilah Service
Neilah, the concluding service, is a special Jewish prayer service held only on Yom Kippur. It is the time when final prayers of repentance are recited. The shofar is blown at the end of Neilah.
6:15 p.m.: Break-The-Fast Dinner
High Holy Days Clergy
Rabbi Glenn Ettman
In addition to serving as Rabbi of Temple Beth Tikvah's, Rabbi Ettman is the Director of Bereavement for the Skirball Hospice in Los Angeles, California, where he presently lives. Prior to joining TBT, Rabbi Ettman was a Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, California. He was ordained by Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in 2006, where he also received a Master's Degree in Hebrew Letters. Rabbi Ettman also earned a Master of Arts in Performance and Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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Cantor Margaret Bruner
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Cantor Bruner served as Cantor for Congregation Ahavath Chesed in Jacksonville, Florida for the past ten years, and recently re-located to Pacific Grove, California. She began formal voice training at the age of 14, showing an early love of Baroque and Renaissance music, attending master classes in Vancouver and the Baroque Performance Institute in Oberlin, Ohio.
She received a BA in Music from California State University, Hayward (now Cal State East Bay), pursued further training at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and earned a Masters of Music from Indiana University's Department of Early Music. She then pursued a career in Judaic and Hebrew studies, and was ordained a Cantor in 2000 from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion with a Masters in Sacred Music.
According to Cantor Bruner, “My soul was often stirred by the beauty of Jewish music and its holiness. I wished to express my own connection to God and to the Jewish people through the melodies handed down over thousands of years. I believe the Cantor’s role as Shaliach Tzibbur is the ultimate responsibility, the noblest of undertakings, because her voice is the vessel of all prayers.”
