High Holidays
The High Holidays include Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The celebration of these days is solemn, but not somber. Readings, prayers, teachings and music are all part of the observance.
Rosh Hashanah is the two-day celebration of the New Year. It also marks the beginning of the Ten Days of Penitence, which conclude with Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah services include the blowing of the shofar, or ram's horn. Services are held the evening before the first day of Rosh Hashanah, as well as the mornings of both days.
The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is considered the holiest day of the year. Coming at the end of the Ten Days of Penitence which began on Rosh Hashanah, it is marked by prayer and fasting. Tradition says that one's fate for the coming year is sealed on this day. We gather the evening before with the Kol Nidre service, and resume the next morning, continuing for most of the day of Yom Kippur itself. The service includes prayers for forgiveness, for health and well-being during the coming year, and Yizkor, the memorial prayers for departed loved ones.
Congregation Kol Emeth
5130 W. Touhy, Skokie, IL 60077 1 ½ blocks west of the Edens
Schedule of High Holiday Services 2019-5780
SELICHOT SERVICES – SATURDAY, September 21
Reception…………………………………………………………………9:00 PM
Services……………………………………………….…………………10:00 PM
ROSH HASHANAH SERVICES
Sunday, September 29……. ………………………..………….……….8:00 PM
Monday, September 30...……………….……………….....….…………9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 1…………………..…………………..…….………...9:00 AM
YOM KIPPUR SERVICES
Tuesday, October 8
Doors Open………………………………………..………………………6:15 PM
Kol Nidre…………………………………………..……………………….6:45 PM
Wednesday, October 9 …………………………...……….…………….9:00 AM
YIZKOR following Musaf………………………………………………….
Concluding Services
MINCHA………………………………………..…………………………..5:00 PM
SHOFAR………………………………………..………………………….7:30 PM
SUKKOT
Monday, October 14 ……… …….....……………..…….………………9:30 AM
Tuesday, October 15 ……………….….……....……………………...9:30 AM
SHEMINI ATZERET
Monday, October 21……YIZKOR will be recited…………..………….9:30 AM
SIMCHAT TORAH
Monday October 21…..………………….…..…………….…….…………6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 22…………….………………………………….……...9:30 AM
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT JUDY
IN THE CKE OFFICE
847-673-3370
office@kolemethskokie.org
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