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The Meaning of the High Holy Days
Temple Beth Tikvah welcomes everyone to join us for High Holy Days services, children’s activities, adult learning and food-filled celebrations. Click here to make your reservation.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur represent two of the most important days of the year for the Jewish community. The High Holy Days are not just a celebration of the Jewish New Year but also serve as a time of contemplation, reflection and aspiration for the coming year. The theme of this remarkable 10-day period is “Teshuvah,” a beautiful Hebrew word that means “to return” or “to turn around.”
Rabbi Sara Abrams will lead our High Holy Days Services accompanied by soloists Samantha Winter on Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nedrei and Sarah Flagg on Yom Kippur morning and afternoon and joined by Julie Geveshausen, Jo Booser and Janet Gesme.
We’ve endeavored to create an experience that is as enriching and memorable as ever while finding new ways to spend time together. We invite you to celebrate in the diverse array of ritual and social opportunities described below.
High Holy Days Schedule
ROSH HASHANAH
Wednesday, October 2nd
7:00 pm: Erev Rosh Hashanah Service followed by sweet table reception
Thursday, October 3rd
10:00 am: Rosh Hashanah Morning Torah Service
4:00 pm: Tashlich Ceremony
Tashlich means “casting off.” The previous year’s sins are symbolically cast off by throwing pieces of bread (or duck food) into a large, natural body of flowing water, such as a river, lake, sea or ocean.
Sunday, October 6th
KEVER AVOT: Visiting gravesites to honor departed loved ones and members of the community
10:00 am: Pilot Butte Cemetery
11:00 am: Gan Shalom Cemetery
YOM KIPPUR
Friday, October 11th
7:00 pm: Erev Yom Kippur Kol Nidrei Service
Saturday, October 12th
10:00 am: Yom Kippur Morning Torah Service
12:30 pm: Adult Learning & Discussion (at conclusion of Morning Service)
3:00 pm: Interactive Family Service
4:30 pm: Yizkor Memorial Service to remember loved ones that have passed
5:15 pm: Neilah Concluding Service with the Final sounding of the shofar
6:00 pm: Break-the-fast
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High Holy Days Reservation Information
We are pleased to have you join Temple Beth Tikvah for our High Holy Days Services this year. Our services are open and welcome to anyone wishing to worship with us. For planning purposes, if you wish to attend any of the services, please click here to complete our registration form. We greatly appreciate receiving your reservation by Wednesday September 25th.
HHD Charges: There is no charge for Temple Beth Tikvah members or students to attend High Holy Days Services. If you are not a current Temple Beth Tikvah member and wish to attend any, or all, of the High Holy Days Services, we respectfully request a minimum donation of $150 per adult or $250 per family to help defray expenses. Of course, additional donations to mark the High Holy Days are always appreciated!
If the donation request does not fit your circumstances, please contribute what you can by entering that amount at the appropriate place on the form. Your financial information is strictly confidential.
Yizkor Memorial Booklet: Each year we assemble a Yizkor Memorial Booklet to honor departed loved ones. These printed booklets are distributed at the Yizkor service on Yom Kippur afternoon and names of those who died in the previous year are read aloud. If you have names to include, please complete the Yizkor section of the reservation form. A donation amount of $36 entitles you to as many names as you wish. Deadline for our Yizkor Memorial Booklet is now past.
Payment deadline: Payments are due from non-members by Wednesday, September 25th.
Non-members who join Temple Beth Tikvah in 2024 will have their High Holy Days donation amount applied toward membership. We warmly welcome your participation.
About reservations: Only one reservation per family is needed. If you have any questions, please call 541-388-8826 and leave a message with your name and phone number, or e-mail shalom@bethtikvahbend.org and a representative of Temple Beth Tikvah will get back to you promptly.
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High Holy Days Donation Appeal
Each year at the High Holy Days we ask you to consider making a donation to support our ongoing Social Action programs. This year, the High Holy Days Tzedakah Project has designated two opportunities for tikkun olam – Family Kitchen and Israel’s Magen David Adom. For more information about these tzedakah opportunities, click here.
Your donations to Family Kitchen and Magen David Adom will be matched by two TBT members – up to $1818.18 from each donor for a potential of $3636.36 total.
One of our generous donors is matching your gifts and contributing the matching funds to our 2024-2025 General Fund. The other generous donor is matching your gifts and contributing their matching funds to the compensation for our next settled Rabbi.
Please join us and participate in our Tzedakah Donation Appeal during the High Holy Days. We appreciate your contributions during this season of giving and are offering two opportunities for you to give.
Magen David Adom:
Founded in 1930, Magen David Adom is Israel’s national Emergency Medical Services organization responsible for emergency medical care and blood services. Every year they handle hundreds of thousands of life-saving cases using technological devices among the most advanced in the world.
MDA teaches first aid and emergency medicine, provides professional services including blood services, and engages in humanitarian activities in Israel and around the world. Over 30,000 of MDA’s highly trained personnel are volunteers, the other 10% are employees.
MDA provides treatment to anyone who needs help – regardless of ethnicity, race, religious or political affiliation. In addition to humanitarian aid in Israel for the elderly and the needy, MDA also provides international humanitarian assistance during disasters such as tsunamis and the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.
While MDA’s role is mandated by the Israeli government, it is not a government agency but is Israel’s official representative to the International Red Cross. MDA relies on support from donors to keep its dispatch systems, training, and equipment the best in the world.
When you support Magen David Adom, you are helping save lives, every day.
Family Kitchen:
Guided by the belief that nobody should go hungry, Family Kitchen has been providing free meals to anyone in need since 1986. Today Family Kitchen continues as an outstanding ecumenical and community effort serving over 14,000 meals each month as part of their mission “to serve anyone who needs nutritious meals in a safe and caring environment.”
Onsite lunches are provided five days a week and hot dinners are served three days per week. In addition to onsite meal service, Family Kitchen delivers fresh to-go meals to: Bend Shelter, Sisters Cold Weather Shelter, Stepping Stone Shelter, COVO Camp Check-ins, Redmond Collective’s Aid Event, Peace Kitchen Outreach, and to low-income housing. In 2022, Family Kitchen provided 133,472 meals!
Temple Beth Tikvah has worked with Family Kitchen since 2015 – cooking and serving dinners from 2015 through mid-2020, when the pandemic halted our participation, and resuming our service on the lunch shift in January 2023. Our TBT volunteers have helped to make nearly 8,000 meals in that time!
We ask you to please help Temple Beth Tikvah’s outreach effort by donating to our High Holy Days Tzedakah drive in support of Family Kitchen and Magen David Adam. Click here to donate to our High Holy Days Tzedakah drive.