Holidays
Mishkan celebrates all major Jewish holidays (and some minor ones). Through original holiday experiences hosted in spaces across the city, we create space for individuality, vulnerability, connection, dance, song, discussion, silence, feasting and fasting, oh, and fun. We infuse tradition with inspiration, piety with just a tad of irreverence. We take the good stuff and pass it on.
Get Higher: High Holidays
Our tradition asserts that tikkun atzmi (self repair) is actually the basic recipe for tikkun olam (healing of the world), and we spend the 10 holy days of repentance from Rosh Hashannah to Yom Kippur creating real-time, face-to-face community of reflection, prayer, and collective transformational power. We immerse ourselves in it for the sake of taking it back out into the world – to uplift, to agitate, to inspire, to challenge, to grow, and to heal.
Holy Pandemonium! Simhat Torah
The last of the torrent of fall holidays, this is the crown, the top, the end, the last gasp, the finale – and is all about celebration. Singing, dancing, hearing what Torah folks in the community will throw down amidst circles of dancing.
Hanukkah
This year, for the festival of lights, we gather with friends from diverse communities to hear true interfaith holiday stories of survival and beauty. We’ll gather for holiday themed food, menorah-lighting, and an interfaith story slam, all co-hosted with Gilead Church.
Passover
We’re always looking for new ways to tell the story of redemption from slavery to liberation. Check out our Passover 5783 Resources page for helpful guides on building your own haggadah, crafting a kid-friendly seder, and more!
Purim: Mishkan-Style
“They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat,” is a child’s description of what our holidays are about. On a deeper level, our holidays take philosophy, history, spirituality, and good old fashioned Jewish neurosis about the precariousness of life, and elevate them to a level of religious significance. Purim is the holiday par excellence that allows our light and our shadow side, our good and our wild and our scary, to be revealed. One night only.