High Holy Days

High Holy Days at CAA include:
• S’lichot havdallah, dessert, learning, and music to kick off the high holy days
• Birthday of the world erev Rosh Hashana family service
• Main sanctuary services for erev Rosh Hashana, both Rosh Hashana mornings, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur morning and concluding service (tickets required for services that also have Hineni option)
• Hineni (alternative/participatory service) open to the entire community for Rosh Hashana first morning, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur morning
• Family and children services throughout the holidays
• A spirited Shabbat Shuvah between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
• Family Tashlich service near the water
• Cemetery service before Yom Kippur
• Break the Fast with Sisterhood goodies – open to all, donations requested

Please check back for detailed information about the holidays, including a full schedule.

Learn High Holy Day Torah readings at our Online Learning page.

Suggested High Holy Day Reading

The following books may be of great spiritual depth, and possible guides through this season.

• Days of Awe, Agnon, the Israeli Nobel Laureate.  It is a stunning collection of wisdom on the themes of Repentance and Turning culled from every period of Jewish learning.
• Entering the High Holydays, Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer (Jewish Publication Society).  A guide to the services and themes of the High Holydays by the past president of the (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly and a professor at the Schecter Institute in Jerusalem.
• 60 Days,  Rabbi Simon Jacobson.  A spiritual guide to each of the 60 days between Shavuot and Sukkot. Provides a great gift of combining insight from the kabbalistic and Hassidic traditions with an understanding of the spiritual quest of modernity
• This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Rabbi Alan Lew, published by Time Warner.  An eclectic but profound approach to the themes of repentance, turning and prayer.