Spiritual Preparation for High Holidays

How do we prepare ourselves for the New Year?  What Jewish spiritual resources does our tradition have to help us let go, build capacity, and open our hearts to the year that is to come?  The words of the liturgy can be stark and abrupt as they ask us to atone and face hard truths, or scary as they ask us to confront mortality.  How might we be more gentle with ourselves, and still experience the essence of the holidays?  How can we help those in our community who are grieving and feeling this suffering in deep ways?

How will we prepare ourselves to do meaningful spiritual work this year in ways that also feels celebratory and proud?

Some of our challenges are communal – it has been complex or scary as Jews in our communities, in public, and sometimes within our own selves.
Some of our challenges are personal – we have faced illness, death, pain, and many intimate hardships.

Join Rabbi Rachel Weiss and our sacred JRC Community in conversation, learning, and singing together.

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