We’d love to see you at Beth El for the High Holidays! Both members and nonmembers must register in advance. For more information and registration, see Details on High Holidays 2025. Questions? Call 978-443-9622 or email templeadmin@bethelsudbury.org.
Are you chanting Torah or Haftorah? Click here for audio files of the High Holidays Torah readings and Haftorah blessings.
Kol Nidre (Wednesday, October 1)
Yom Kippur (Thursday, October 2)
- 9:00–9:30am — Family service with rabbi and cantor
- 9:45am–11:15pm — Shacharit (indoor and outdoor)
- Torah service — 11:30am to 12:45pm
- 1:00–2:30pm — Musaf service (indoor and outdoor)
— Break —
- 3:15pm — Mincha service
- 4:45pm — Yizkor service
- 5:30pm — N’ilah service
Special Presenters during break: 2:30pm
- Linda Hirsch – Kolel: Linda Hirsch will offer a gentle, brief, deep meditation focused on opening the heart & mind to a sense of equanimity. We will sit together in an oasis of calming poetry, reflecting together on our blessings.
- Bernie Horn – Library: “For sins between a person and God, Yom Kippur atones. But for sins between one person and another, Yom Kippur does not atone, until the one who has done wrong appeases the other.” I will present an intriguing interpretetation of the principle by the Hassidic master, Sefat Emet (Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger, 1847-1905). – Study Guide
- Judy Spicehandler – Zoom: The Book of Life : We will be looking at a variety of sources: biblical, Midrashic, Hasidic and Contemporary to attempt to stretch our understanding of the meaning of “The Book of Life “. Is it something more than an ancient idea of a ledger in which God records who will live and who will die in the coming year? – Study Guide
