Get Higher: High Holidays
Note: the information below is from High Holidays 5773 (2012). We will post information for 5774 as soon as we’ve got it! In the meantime, get a sense of what we did last year here…
Imagine a high holiday experience that truly gets you high (without the use of controlled substances). Tell your parents to come to your shul this year. We’re holding services at the Bodhi Spiritual Center at 2746 N. Magnolia. Space will be limited, so to ensure your seat, become a Builder. As space fills in, Builders will be guaranteed seats.
Getting Higher and got kids? E-mail Erica (erica.fleischer@gmail.com) about numbers and ages of the little Jews you’ll be bringing along.
Get Your 5773 MishKard (High Holiday tix, Mishkan-style) here now!
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING INFO AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.
Basic schedule:
Rosh HaShannah
Sunday, September 16th
Registration opens at 5:30, doors open at 6:15.
6:30 pm-8:15 pm Erev/evening RH services.
Monday, September 17th
Registration opens at 8:30 am, doors open at 9 am.
9:10 am Meditation, Music, Morning Blessings
9:30 am-1:30 pm Rosh HaShannah services
1:30 pm Bagels, fixings, drinks, after RH day services (advanced registration required)
[Want to hang out between the end of services/lunch and tashlikh but don't want to shlep all the way home? Check out Moishe House's Rosh HaShannah Rest Stop all afternoon at 722 W. Aldine]
6 pm Tashlikh (tossing out last year’s spiritual gunk) – meet at Chicago Sailboat Charter meeting place, off Recreation drive (enter thru Irving Park or Recreation Drive- the NORTH end of Belmont Harbor). See this diagram- MEETING POINT.
BYOBread.
Yom Kippur
Tuesday, September 25th
Registration opens at 5:30, doors open at 6:15.
* Coming early is highly encouraged. We will start on time*
6:30 pm Kol Nidre
Wednesday, September 26th
Registration opens at 8:30 am, doors open at 9 am.
9:10 am Meditation, Music, Morning Blessings
9:30 am- 2:30 Yom Kippur services (incl. prayer, Torah, shofar, Yizkor)
2:45 pm-3:45 Yoga with the fabulous AnnMerle Feldman (restorative, gentle yoga
appropriate for fasting people)
3:45-4:30 Text study with one of our deep and philosophical UChicago grad students,
on YK afternoon.
4:30-5:30 Pre-Neilah meditation with the soulful Ruth Durschlag
4:45 Mincha- Torah discussion, Jonah
6 Neilah- Closing of the gates
7:20 Shofar Blow-Out
7:30 onward Disco Break Fast
(You will feel so high at the end of a day of fasting and spiritual detox… go from one high to another, dance the night away with great music, clean vegetarian food and drinks with the amazing folks you just spent the last 24 hours in deep prayer and conversation with.) Open to all- even if you weren’t with us for day-time prayer. Advanced registration required.
Every year at Yom Kippur we seek at-one-ment with ourselves, the people we love, and God. The problem is we’re not always prepared to acknowledge things we screwed up, people we hurt, words we said wrong, or situations we otherwise botched. Here is your opportunity to do some anonymous soul searching and help our community collectively reflect on the people we’ve been, and the people we want to be. More…
Your sins will be put in a box and read at random throughout Yom Kippur along with the “Al Chet” section (you know, one part when we beat our chests). Please do not mention specific names, just what you feel bad about, both personally and as a member of the Jewish people (or someone who identifies with the Jewish people, even if you’re not Jewish). This will immeasurably enhance the realness and poignancy of our Yom Kippur together.
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING
- There are 25 parking spots available at the Bodhi Center. First come, first serve! (Carpooling encouraged!)
- Once the Bodhi lot fills up, it’s time to start exploring. There are unmetered, non-permit parking spots available on surrounding streets (though not so much on Magnolia). Please pay close attention to signage about parking restrictions – for example, Mishkan’s sources tell us that on westbound Diversey there’s no parking between 4:00-6:00pm. This street parking map from the Bodhi Center may come in handy: http://bit.ly/U4EWmj
- Finally, on the night of Sunday, 9/16 only (Erev Rosh HaShannah) the owner of the Athletico / Jenny Craig parking lot at 1323 W. Diversey has kindly agreed to let us use their spaces. Feel free to park in this lot, but *only* from 6:00pm to 8:30pm on 9/16. (On other days you will be towed- so please, don’t test their generosity!)
