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September 2017

Sun, September 10, 2017
9:30 AM

Get Ready for Rosh HaShanah: Learn to Blow the Shofar

You can learn to play the shofar! It's not that difficult to get a sound out of it, and with a little practice, you can achieve a glorious resonant sound that can truly stir the soul. Bring your shofar, and AC member Ron Meyers will help you become a real baal tekia!

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Fri, September 15, 2017
6:30 PM

Breaking, Repairing, and Making Whole Again at the Yamim Noraim

Friday Night, September 15 Kabbalat Shabbat Services at 6:30pm Dinner at 7:30pm To have a personally enriching Elul, Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, we must endure the necessary honest pain of admitting what we break, working to repair it, begging forgiveness and pardoning others who do the same. Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky at a Shabbat evening dinner for learning from Judaism's ethical and pietistic sources, and personal reflection. Click here to register.

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Sat, September 16, 2017
9:45 PM

Unetaneh Tokef: Living in Clay Houses

Saturday night, September 16 Learning at 9:45pm Selichot Services at 11pm Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Chazzan Hirschhorn to explore the meaning and music of the most religiously challenging yet most spiritually stirring passage in the High Holiday prayer book. What does Unetaneh Tokef really mean? Why and how does it move us so? How do its words and the musical versions through the ages combine for poetic power?

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Wed, September 20, 2017
6:30 PM