CBS High Holiday Information 5781/2020 Congregation Beth Shalom | 3433 Walters Avenue | Northbrook, IL 60062-3298 | 847-498-4100 | www.BethShalomNB.org HIGH HOLIDAY TICKETS High Holiday Schedule 5781/2020 There will be NO tickets for High Holiday services. Selichot with Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah and North Suburban Synagogue Beth El All CBS members in good Saturday evening, September 12, 2020 standing will receive a Memorial Plaque Dedication password which will via Live Stream CBS Feather Beit Midrash. .8:30 p.m. Selichot Study Session. .9:00 p.m. allow access into online Selichot Service . .10:00 p.m. High Holiday services. Click here to register for Selichot Study Session/Service You will need to be Erev Rosh Hashanah logged into your MyCBS Friday, September 18, 2020 account and then you will via Live Stream . 6:00 p.m. enter the password which First Day Rosh Hashanah will be sent to you shortly Saturday, September 19, 2020 before the via Live Stream . .9:30 a.m. High Holidays. Mincha/Ma’ariv Service via Live Stream . .6:00 p.m. Contact Susan Karlinsky Second Day Rosh Hashanah if you have questions Tuesday, September 20, 2020 regarding your account - via Live Stream . .9:30 a.m. [email protected] Teen Torah Talk led by Rabbi Ferratier via Zoom: click here to register for Zoom link. .10:00 a.m. Mincha/Ma’ariv Service via Live Stream . .7:10 p.m. Tashlich See page 4 for information regarding Tashlich Kol Nidre Sunday, September 27, 2020 (starting with Mincha) via Live Stream . 6:15 p.m. YOM BETH SHALOM Yom Kippur Day Monday, September 28, 2020 Sunday, August 30th via Live Stream . 9:30 a.m. Yizkor & Healing Service 11:00am - 2:00 pm via Live Stream . 4:00 p.m. Pick-Up High Holiday Mahzor Mincha Service via Live Stream . 4:45 p.m. CBS Information Community Yizkor Service Ice Cream Truck treats You are invited to participate in our community Yizkor Say Hello to CBS Clergy, experience this year. This service was created to be “interactive” Staff and Board Members and bring us all together in this solemn moment. Along with traditional prayers there will be an experiential aspect, which we believe will offer each person a genuine opportunity to find a personal connection. All are welcome to participate. Click here for link-(https://www.bethshalomnb.org/pray/highholidays5781/) Followed by Neilah, the concluding service of the day. CBS circle drive & main parking lot The final Shofar Blast will be at approximately 7:10 p.m. (please wear your mask & social distance) CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM • NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS • 847-498-4100 • WWW.BETHSHALOMNB.ORG 2 High Holiday Brochure 5781/2020 3 “God will take us back in love, will cover up our iniquities and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19 Watch for a video from our CBS Clergy showing you how to create your own Tashlich ceremony. Click here for a link to our Tashlich Prayer Booklet or find it on our High Holiday 5781/2020 website page. CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM • NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS • 847-498-4100 • WWW.BETHSHALOMNB.ORG 4 HIGH HOLIDAY NOTES & INFORMATION WHY IS THIS YEAR DIFFERENT obligations toward others are implied. On the High Holidays this year many will miss Only those pledges made between a person and long practiced traditional moments and we also God forcibly or impulsively can be revoked by feel the strangeness of these issues. Some will the recitation of Kol Nidre. miss their accustomed seating and the social opportunity of connecting with dear neighbors NEILAH and friends. We understand. Others will be Refers to the closing of the gates. As dusk discomforted by the necessity to utilize approaches and Yom Kippur draws to a close, electronics on the holiday so as to access Live these are the final penitential prayers. Many Stream services. We whole-heartedly believe people remain standing for the entire service. God understands. May we all return to our The Neilah service concludes with the sounding beloved Congregation Beth Shalom and resume of the final blast of the Shofar. our precious traditions as quickly as possible when safety allows. HIGH HOLIDAY PRAYER BOOKS CANNED FOOD DRIVE Mahzorim will be available for pick-up at CBS during Yom Beth Shalom on Sunday, August “This is my chosen fast… 30th between the hours of 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Share your bread with the hungry (also during Religious School meet-the-teacher on Sunday, August 30). If you are unable to pick Take the homeless into your home. -up a Mahzor during these times, contact Maria Clothe the naked when you see him, Catezone to make special arrangements at Do not turn away from people in need.” [email protected] or 847.498.4100 x 26. We ask that you sign-out the Mahzorim As we prepare for the High and return them after the High Holidays are Holidays, we ask each congregant over. to drop off food SELICHOT (only canned kosher and not expired please) From Judaism’s point of view, setting a mood to the synagogue for prayer is essential, particularly at this most beginning Sunday, August 30 important High Holiday season. Therefore, the (Yom Beth Shalom & Religious School Selichot Service is held on Saturday night Meet The Teacher Drive Thru) preceding Rosh Hashanah. The service includes through Tuesday, September 29. prayers which will be recited during the High The food should be placed Holidays and introduces the stirring and familiar melodies of the season. on the carts located by the CBS main entry *See information on Page 2 (circle drive) for distribution to the hungry of Chicago via The Ark. TASHLICH For Further Information Contact: Dr. Bob During the season of repentance we are called Spector, CBS Social Action Vice President upon to do T’shuvah to return to God in [email protected] sincerity and truth. Through prayer and in study, reflection and ritual, we strive to begin the new year in the spirit of humility. For Tashlich we come to a body of water into which we symbolically cast our sins. Generally this is done by throwing bread crumbs or seeds into the water as a tangible representation of our desire to be cleansed of our wrongdoings, to send away our unworthy thoughts and purify our hearts. This ritual is accompanied by prayer and song and is especially meaningful for children. *See information on Page 4 KOL NIDRE The service on the eve of Yom Kippur is named for an Aramaic formula for the dispensation of vows, which is more than a thousand years old. The Kol Nidre prayer symbolizes human frailty, at the same time it emphasizes high regard for the promises we make. Although often misunderstood throughout history, no vows or High Holiday Brochure 5781/2020 5 OBTAINING LULAV AND ETROG FOR SUKKOT 5781/2020 The Lulav (palm branch with myrtle and willow) and Etrog (citron) are symbols of the holiday and an important part of the Festival’s observance. Each set of Lulav and Etrog is $45.00 and must be pre-ordered. Click here to place your order online or make your check payable to Congregation Beth Shalom. Pre-ordered Lulav and Etrog will be available for pick-up at Congregation Beth Shalom Thursday, October 1st between 10:00 am - 6:00 pm. Please order online or return your check and form no later than Wednesday, September 9th. Number of sets @ $45.00 each Amount Enclosed $ Name* Phone* Email* * Required Information Click here to place your order online. Congregation Beth Shalom, 3433 Walters Avenue, Northbrook, IL 60062 Attention: Lulav/Etrog OBTAINING SCHACH FOR SUKKOT 5781/2020 Schach is used to cover the top of a Sukkah. According to our tradition, the roof of a Sukkah should consist of branches of trees, detached from the trunk, sparsely spread over so that the stars may be seen through them. Each bundle of Schach is $20.00 and must be pre-ordered. The average Sukkah uses between three and five bundles. Click here to place your order online or make your check payable to Congregation Beth Shalom. The Schach must be picked up by those who have pre-ordered at the synagogue on Sunday, September 27th between 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. You may pick up you pre-ordered bundles of Schach along the fence west of the main entrance. Please order online or return your check and form no later than Wednesday, September 9th. Number of bundles @ $20.00 each Amount Enclosed $ Name* Phone* Email* *Required Information Click here to place your order online. Congregation Beth Shalom, 3433 Walters Avenue, Northbrook, IL 60062 Attention: Schach Order CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM • NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS • 847-498-4100 • WWW.BETHSHALOMNB.ORG 6 Engaging with our Inner Prayers on Yom Kippur Every year Jews gather to wrestle with our inner selves and to consider how it is that we might approach the New Year. One wishing to connect with God on this auspicious day offers words of tradition but can also offer words of one’s conscience and heart. When people travel to Israel it is common for them to visit the Kotel, the Western Wall, and it is quite normal that they place a kvitel, a small piece of paper on which one pens a petitionary prayer, in a crevice of the Kotel as a “note to God”. We wish to invite every member of CBS to do likewise for the High Holidays this year. This personal act of ‘letter writing to God’ is an added gesture of petition which enhances one’s opportunity to reach out to God in a new way.