1 HIGH HOLY DAYS 5781/2020 Please keep this guide and use it as a reference throughout the High Holy Day season. This information is also available online at wbtla.org/hhd2020. If you have questions, contact the Membership office at (213) 835-2132 or (213) 835-2142 or [email protected]. We are looking forward to beautiful and meaningful High Holy Days with you. 5781/2020 High Holy Days Calendar SEPTEMBER SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SELICHOT 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 EREV ROSH ROSH HASHANAH HASHANAH 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 SECOND-DAY ROSH SHABBAT HASHANAH SHUVAH 27 28 29 30 KOL NIDREI YOM KIPPUR Adult Services Schedule Children's Services We can’t wait for you to be a part of our High Holy Day services this year. We have put in hundreds of Schedule: HiHoKidz hours to ensure that we feel together, even when we’re apart. As a reminder, you’ll need to renew your Rosh HaShanah membership for the 2020-2021 year to receive the links to services. Saturday, September 19 9:00 a.m. Program Selichot Second-Day Yom Kippur Yom Kippur Saturday, September 12 Rosh HaShanah Monday, September 28 Monday, September 28 6:30 p.m. Study Sessions Sunday, September 20 10:00 a.m. Service 9:00 a.m. Program 8:30 p.m. Service 10:00 a.m. Service 5:00 p.m. Yizkor/Neilah (sermon by Rabbi Joel Nickerson) HiHoKidz is Wilshire Boulevard Temple's new Erev Rosh HaShanah Shabbat Shuvah and original concept for a digital children’s Friday, September 18 Saturday, September 26 Yom Kippur Afternoon experience during Rosh HaShanah and Yom 7:00 p.m. Service 10:00 a.m. Service (sermon by Rabbi Steve Leder) Programs - Live! (mostly) Kippur. Music, prayer and comedy sketches Monday, September 28 featuring familiar Wilshire Boulevard Temple Kol Nidrei/Erev Yom Kippur Rosh HaShanah 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. clergy and musicians will make for a one of Saturday, September 19 Sunday, September 27 Please see page 9 for details a kind High Holy Day experience the whole 10:00 a.m. Service 7:00 p.m. Service (sermon by Rabbi Steve Leder) family can enjoy. 1 5781/2020 TOGE THER, ALWAYS For the safety and security of all of our congregants and staff, we will be producing outstanding online services that will be meaningful and uplifting. We are already at work on a set of High Holy Day worship offerings to inspire you in powerful and creative ways. Though it pains us not to be together in person in September, we are excited for you to see what our clergy are creating along with some of the congregation’s best TV producers and crews. We promise it will be quite special. Being apart will never keep us from raising our voices in prayer together. Prayer, music, repentance, and fasting Online Yom Everything you need to know to participate. 3 contribute to the personal introsepection of Access 9 Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Kippur The month of Elul marks a period of introspection and preparation in advance of Elul 5 Yizkor, a solemn service of remembrance. Yizkor 10 the High Holy Days. The High Holy Days begin through the gates High Holy Days customs WBT@home of Selichot, our prayers of forgiveness. Selichot 6 and their explanations. 11 Rosh HaShanah celebrates the Jewish Rosh WBT@home 7 High Holy Day Seder and recipes. 13 New Year and the creation of the world. HaShanah Recipes Tashlich, the ceremonial Tashlich & WBT@home Activities and crafts casting off of our sins. For Kids and Shabbat 8 for kids and families. 18 Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath between. Shuvah Familes The beautiful sound of the cello and moving refrain of "Kol Nidrei" stir Kol Nidrei 9 Tributes, B'nei Mitzvah and Temple Family 23 our souls as we begin Yom Kippur. PREPARE YOURSELF - PRIVATE VISITS TO OUR SANCTUARY In the Torah, God calls out, "Make Me a sanctuary so I may dwell among them." transition time before the next Temple member(s) will be permitted into the In a time when we are unable to gather for the High Holy Days, we are happy to sanctuary. Additional health and safety procedures will be emailed to you prior offer each Temple member and family the opportunity to spend some private, to your selected time. meaningful moments in our historic and inspiring sanctuary. We will do our best to accommodate your preferred day and time. However, This is a time for you to pray, to reflect, to reconnect, or simply to immerse please be flexible as we do our best to meet everyone's requests. yourself in a sacred space that has provided hope and healing for generations To register, please visit wbtla.org/hhd2020. If you have any questions, please of Jews. feel free to contact Rabbi Joel Nickerson at [email protected]. In order to provide this opportunity safely we invite you to register ahead of time. We wish you a Shana Tova - a year of goodness, health, and hope for you and In order to ensure that everyone abides by our COVID-19 policies and procedures, your loved ones. each time slot is limited to 10 minutes and will be followed by 5 minutes of 2 The Online Experience Although we cannot be together physically, we can be together in time. We can enter these moments of High Holy Days prayer and reflection as a community. We can do what has previously been impossible; for our entire congregation to be together at the same service. You can find the latest information and links to help you prepare and participate in this year’s High Holy Days at wbtla.org/hhd2020. One, Two, Three How is it Going Steps to Participating to Work Online? Step One Your High Holy Days tickets will be associated with your email address. Access to our High Holy Days experiences will be available exclusively • We will need your email address to send you a link and your personal access code to Wilshire Boulevard Temple members in good standing (current • We will need email addresses for each immediate in their membership or having made family member, especially if you are not watching arrangements through the membership services from the same location. office). All members should have received their membership-renewal Make sure we have a good email address for you, as well as permission to email you. packages in June. If you need to make a payment, you can do so online Do we have your current email address? Not just any email at www.wbtla.org/pay. If you have address but one that you use and check regularly? Maybe any questions, need to make special you unsubscribed from receiving the Wilshire Weekly, arrangements, or would like to set up our Daily, Rabbi Leder’s Shabbat Message, or other event a payment plan, please contact Esther emails? Perhaps a while back you instructed us to avoid all Cohen at [email protected] or emails to you. If any of these are the case, please contact 213-835-2132 or our membership services. You can update us online at Membership Services at www.wbtla.org/profile-update. [email protected] or 213-835-2142. They are here to help. Step Two ADMISSION Members in good standing will receive their links by email beginning September 8. • We will register all members in good standing using your preferred email address. There is nothing you need to do. • Your “access information” will come as an “Order Confirmation” [email protected] . • Your Order Confirmation will contain your access link and instructions. 3 • Please DO NOT DELETE your confirmation email. HELP! • …To access viewing pages, you may be asked to The last thing anyone needs on the High Holy Days enter your confirmation number as your Access is trouble accessing services. Just as the month Code. prior to the High Holy Days is a time for spiritual • …If you lose your tickets or accidentally delete preparation, so too is it a time for us to prepare for them, don’t worry. SimpleTix can look up your this year’s unique, online experience. order by searching the email address with which PRACTICE your e-mail address is associated. Visit https://find.simpletix.com/ and simply type in There will be opportunities during the week before your email address. Your tickets will appear in the Rosh HaShanah to test your login and practice. It will search result; then just click resend. help us identify any problems in advance. ADDITIONAL ACCESS CODES PLAN AHEAD Additional links can be provided at no cost for members Contact Membership Services if you don’t receive a of your immediate family—your children, parents, confirmation email on September 8 from SimpleTix, grandparents—who would like to participate from other or if your email address does not return a result locations. If you send YOUR link for them to take part, when you search on SimpleTix following YOU won’t have access. So please, order free tickets for that date. them. Please understand that almost everyone is working • Go to www.wbtla.org/hhdtickets. Enter your remotely. The further ahead of the High Holy Days name and email address to open the ticket order that we can address your questions and provide form. solutions, the better. • Enter the name and email address of the person If you have not yet renewed your Temple or household for whom you are requesting membership, please do so now.