High Holidays 5786 | 2025
We look forward to spending the High Holy Day season with you!
TBI Brotherhood Rosh Hashanah Honey Fundraiser
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TBI members, give your friends at TBI a gift of delicious honey.
Select one of three options:
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Send to as many friends as you'd like, for $3 each. A recipient will receive one jar of honey with wishes from all who sent it. There is no reciprocation with this option.
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Reciprocate automatically to each friend who sends directly to you for $3/each. You'll know the final cost when the campaign closes. Max cost would be $180.
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Send wishes to all TBI members for $180.
There will be enough for every member household to receive one jar of honey. Brotherhood will be handing out honey before Rosh Hashanah services.
» Gift honey via ShulCloud (check back for the link soon!)
TBI's Hearing Loop: Information & Training
The sanctuary and social hall at Temple Beth Israel are now equipped with hearing loops, which make it very easy for people with hearing loss who wear hearing aids or have cochlear implants to clearly understand the spoken word. The training will help everyone understand what a hearing loop is and, more importantly, how to access it.
Find out from your audiologist if your hearing aids have a t-coil, and is it activated. In preparation for the training, we recommend watching this 18-minute TedX video by Juliëtte Sterkens, What you don’t know about hearing aids.
» Watch the training
Special Rosh Hashanah Challah Baking
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Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein is convening a baking session just before Rosh Hashanah. This special New Year session will include techniques for beautiful round challah and a special apple & honey challah.
» Sign up to bake challah (check back for the link soon!)
Sponsor the livestream!
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If you would like to sponsor the livestream of High Holy Day services to help defray costs of accessibility initiatives (livestream, hearing loop, and ASL interpreters), please let us know by September XX.
Minimum sponsorship amount is $100. Sponsors’ names will appear during each High Holy Day livestream, unless you prefer to remain anonymous.
» Become a sponsor (check back for the link soon!)
Order your lulav & etrog today!
Order by Tuesday, September 16
The lulav and etrog are also called the four species, Arbah Minim. They consist of etrog (citron), lulav (palm), hadas (myrtle), and aravah (willow). It is a mitzvah to take up the lulav and etrog and recite the appropriate blessing during Sukkot. Cost is $45. All orders will arrive at TBI for pick-up.
» Purchase a set via ShulCloud
Have a greeting sent to your college student from Rabbi Ruhi Sophia
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TBI members, Rabbi Ruhi Sophia would love to send a handwritten Shana Tova greeting to your college student. The deadline for greeting requests is TBA.
» Click here to have a greeting sent (check back for the link soon!)
S'lichot
Saturday, September 20
8:00pm: Havdallah and S’lichot Services
S’lichot marks an intensification of our preparation to make a spiritual return to the Divine.
Sisterhood Oneg on Erev Rosh Hashanah
7:00pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service
8:30pm Sisterhood Oneg
The TBI Sisterhood is once again hosting a beautiful oneg after Erev Rosh Hashanah services.
Please help by offering to bake or providing something to share. Usual favorites are individually portioned cakes, cookies, fruit platters, assorted nuts, dried fruit, etc. They also need your help cutting apples and plating treats at 5:30 pm, serving, and cleaning up afterward.
» Sign up (check back for the link soon!)
Tashlich at Alton Baker Park
Tuesday, September 23 at 4:00pm
More info coming soon!
Rosh Hashanah Service, including children's services
Tuesday, September 23
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9:00am Children's Service (ages 0-6)
9:30am Rosh Hashanah Service
10:00am Children's Service (ages 6-10)
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More info coming soon!
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We warmly welcome non-member guests at services, and request you register in advance so we can properly prepare. Please register guests via ShulCloud.
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We are offering free childcare. Registration is required by Sunday, September 18. Sign your chil(ren) up via ShulCloud.
Rosh Hashanah Happy Hour, followed by Rosh Hashanah Evening Service with Mina Wegner
Tuesday, September 23
5:30pm Happy Hour
8:00pm Service
More info coming soon!
We warmly welcome non-member guests at services, and request you register in advance so we can properly prepare. Please register guests via ShulCloud.​
Rosh Hashanah Second Day Service
Wednesday, September 24 at 9:30am
More info coming soon!
We warmly welcome non-member guests at services, and request you register in advance so we can properly prepare. Please register guests via ShulCloud.
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We are offering free childcare. Registration is required by Sunday, September 18. Sign your chil(ren) up via ShulCloud.
Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre) Service
Wednesday, October 1 at 6:30pm
We warmly welcome non-member guests at services, and request you register in advance so we can properly prepare. Please register guests via ShulCloud.
Yom Kippur Morning Service with Yizkor and Musaf, including children's services
Tuesday, October 2
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9:00am Children's Service (ages 0-6)
9:30am Yom Kippur Service
10:00am Children's Service (ages 6-10)
More info coming soon!
We warmly welcome non-member guests at services, and request you register in advance so we can properly prepare. Please register guests via ShulCloud.
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We are offering free childcare. Registration is required by Sunday, September 18. Sign your chil(ren) up via ShulCloud.
Al Chet
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On Yom Kippur, we will recite a litany of confession, Al chet sh’chatanu l’fanecha, “For the transgression that we have committed. . .”
The word chet, translated as “transgression,” means to miss the mark, to stray from the way we want to be and behave in the world. We invite you to reflect on what needs confession in your own life, and to contribute it to be read with our community’s litany on Yom Kippur:
» Contribute to our community's litany here (check back for the link soon!)
Masked area of sanctuary
For High Holy Days services and other events with a large number of attendees, there will be a mask-only section on the right side of the sanctuary. Please do not sit there without a mask.
