Erev Rosh Hashanah family service, potluck, and Birthday Party for the World! at Main Street Landing in Burlington

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We’ll be hosting a family-oriented (yet rich learning and song for everyone, if you come alone or with a neighbor or a date!) service in the early evening, followed by a potluck feast and Birthday Party for the World. We will be blowing shofars and will sing songs in English and Hebrew.

Kids: Appropriate for all ages.

Accessibility Notes: The event is on the top floor in the Lake Lobby, with a wheelchair-accessible entrance on Battery Street and elevator-accessible entrances from Lake Street. There are gender neutral and family-friendly bathrooms available. There is wheelchair accessible parking and paid street and lot parking. There will be a variety of seating options, masks available, and HEPA air filters. There will be a sound system and microphone.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles reading traditional Hebrew liturgy and English readings. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Tashlich in Montpelier with Beth Jacob Synagogue at the Rec Field

Tashlich is the practice of embodying teshuvah, repentance, the main focus of the High Holiday season… where we cast away “sins.” The ritual of Tashlich offers us the chance to recognize, feel in our bodies, and release ways in which we have missed the mark this year, both personally and collectively. Tashlich is an opportunity to ritualize​ ​and​ ​deepen​ ​our​ ​personal​ ​and​ ​collective​ ​commitments​ ​to​ ​justice​ ​in​ ​the​ ​coming​ ​year. And we set intentions to move forward differently.

We will be blowing shofars and will sing songs in English.

This service will be facilitated by Shaina and is in collaboration with Beth Jacob Synagogue. Register Here with L’Chaim Collective or here with Beth Jacob.

We’ll be hosting this repentance ritual near a body of water, reflecting on our right relationship with water especially in these years of flooding.

We will meet at the Montpelier Rec Field on Poolside Drive. 

Kids: This event is outside and is appropriate for all ages.

Access Notes: There is a gazebo that can fit everyone in the event of rain. There is a portalet. There is wheelchair accessible parking. There are picnic tables and participants are encouraged to bring their favorite picnic blanket or camp chair. The gazebo is about 100 feet from parking and the bridge for the ritual is about 100 feet from the gazebo. There will be glutenous and gluten-free apple, nut and nut-free cake, apples, and honey provided and present.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Shabbat Shuvah service and potluck at residential house in Burlington (exact location will be shared upon registration)

This is a meditative and musical Kabbalat Shabbat. “Shabbat Shuvah” literally means the “Shabbat of Returning,” and is a time to reflect and deepen our individual and collective inner work during these holy days (between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). We will sing songs in Hebrew and in English

This service will be facilitated by Kohenet Yepeth Perla with Roots and Trails Friends. Meditation will be 6-6:30. Service begins at 6:30. Register Here

Accessibility: There are two small steps to enter the house. There is easy street parking nearby. We will have an air purifier running in the space.

Kids: Kids are welcome, and know this will be a quieter and meditative space.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Tashlich in Addison County

Tashlich is the practice of embodying teshuvah, repentance, the main focus of the High Holiday season… where we cast away “sins.” The ritual of Tashlich offers us the chance to recognize, feel in our bodies, and release ways in which we have missed the mark this year, both personally and collectively. Tashlich is an opportunity to ritualize​ ​and​ ​deepen​ ​our​ ​personal​ ​and​ ​collective​ ​commitments​ ​to​ ​justice​ ​in​ ​the​ ​coming​ ​year. And we set intentions to move forward differently.

Register here

We’ll be hosting this repentance ritual outside, near a body of water, reflecting on our right relationship with water especially in these years of flooding.

Access Notes: We have some different watery locations in mind, and will select a great place based on who is coming! Please tell us in the last question of this survey if you: use a wheelchair or walker, have small kids, have any other access needs!

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

A note about the date:

Yes, it’s true, this Tashlich is being held on Shabbat. Due to scheduling challenges, this is the only day and time we are able to host this event. We hope you can make it, but/and if it is your practice to stay home on Shabbat, we get it! We hope to see you at one of the many other High Holy Day events this season.

Yom Kippur morning service at Main Street Landing in Burlington

Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish year and marks a day of atonement. For us, this is a day of reflection, purification and reorientation as we turn inwards to do the work of teshuvah, or returning to your soul. We are trying a collectively-run, lay-led morning service for the first time. We will sing songs in English and many in Hebrew.

There will be a silent meditation 9-9:30. Services kick off at 9:30.

Please note there will be no song circle October 1 due to the High Holidays.

Register Here

Accessibility Notes: The event is on the top floor the Lake Lobby, with a wheelchair-accessible entrance on Battery Street and elevator-accessible entrances from Lake Street. There are gender neutral and family-friendly bathrooms available. There is wheelchair accessible parking and paid street and lot parking. There will be a variety of seating options, masks available, and HEPA air filters. There will be a sound system and microphone.

Kid Programming: We aim to have separate programming for youth at the Yom Kippur morning service.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles reading traditional Hebrew liturgy and English readings. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Yom Kippur evening service and break-fast at Main Street Landing in Burlington

We will be integrating and grounding our time, singing and breaking fast (in that order) around sundown. This will be a shorter service, a version of a Ne’ilah service. There will be a potluck meal for Break Fast! We will be blowing shofars and will sing songs in English and Hebrew.

Come 30 min early to join The Sacred Nap. Lay down and listen to some soft songs before the evening service begins. Bring a yoga mat or some soft things to lay on

Register here.

Access notes: The event is on the top floor, with a wheelchair-accessible entrance on Battery Street and elevator-accessible entrances from Lake Street. There are gender neutral and family-friendly bathrooms available. There is wheelchair accessible parking and paid street and lot parking. There will be a variety of seating options, masks available, and HEPA air filters. There will be a sound system and microphone.

Kids: Appropriate for all ages.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Havdalah under the Sukkah at a residential house in South Burlington

We will come together once again for Sukkot— the festival of impermanence, the celebration of the harvest, and the magic of eating under the stars—  we’re gathering on Saturday for havdallah song, bonfire, clothing swap and eating in the sukkah. Join us at a member’s house for a potluck feast outside. Please bring clothing to swap and a dish to share!

We will be making lulavs (read more here about the lulav) with plants that grow here in Vermont.

Address will be sent upon registering.

Access notes: There is a long and fairly steep driveway to walk up to reach the house, in addition to two small steps by the door. There is free and ample street parking.

Volunteer: We are looking for volunteers to hold roles reading traditional Hebrew liturgy and English readings. Sign up to hold a role here.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.

Simchat Torah group text study at Jory’s house in Burlington

Simchat Torah literally means "joy of Torah." On Simchat Torah we celebrate a year of Torah reading and going back to the beginning of the scroll. We will be doing a text study together in Burlington. Of course there will be ice cream as it is tradition to eat dairy and celebrate together on Simchat Torah! (We will also have dairy free options!)

Register Here. Exact location will be shared upon registration.

Access Notes: There are two small steps to enter the house. There may not be enough seats for everyone. There is free street parking but bike/walk/bus is best. 

Kids: Kids are always welcome! Ice cream will launch our celebration but then we will transition to a more focused Torah text study.

Register: You can register for any and all events at this link.

Donate: Our events are free and open for all to attend. If you’re financially able, we’re suggesting a donation of $36 to help us cover the costs of renting spaces and printing prayer books.