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High Holy Day 2021 Hosted by Temple Beth El from Boca Raton

Elul
High Holy Days 2023 | 5784

L'Shana Tova!

Welcome to High Holy Days at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, FL! We are so excited to celebrate with you.

Rosh HaShanah begins in the evening of Friday, September 15.

Mysteries of the Machzor

3 Part Series with American Israeli Liturgist and Poet Alden Solovy, Live from Jerusalem
Thursdays, September 1, 8 and 15
10:00 - 11:00 am in Person at the Schaefer Family Campus or on Zoom

Alden Solovy will help us prepare for the High Holy Days with an exploration of treasures found in the Machzor, our High Holy Day prayer book. Each session will focus on one core prayer, and in conversation and exploration will help create a deeper understanding of the High Holy Day services. Rabbi Mates, Rabbi Rabishaw and Cantor Brock will supplement Solovy’s teachings.

Alden Solovy spreads joy and excitement for prayer. An American Israeli liturgist, poet, and educator, and the Liturgist-in-Residence for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, his teaching spans from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem to synagogues throughout North America, Leo Baeck College in London, and Limmud Conferences in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. He is the author of five books and writes for Ritualwell, RavBlog and the Times of Israel. Find his latest work at ToBendLight.com. In 2012, Alden made Aliyah to Jerusalem where he is the founder of ManKind Project Israel.

29 Words for 29 Days of Elul

There’s no need to make flash cards and there will not be a test, but throughout Elul, our clery will be bringing you daily vocabulary words that will help round out your High Holy Days. 
 
The month of Elul, which comes just before the High Holy Days, is traditionally a time to prepare yourself for the Days of Awe. What that preparation looks like can vary from hearing the shofar blasts, to visiting the graves of loved ones at the cemetery, to saying special prayers of repentance. Elul, this Hebrew month, is supposed to be a time of study of our actions over the past year. We can use this time to seek forgiveness from those we have wronged and figure out how we can better ourselves in the year ahead. 
 
Check Facebook, Instagram, as well as your phone for texts and emails for daily words to help you celebrate the month of Elul. We hope this month of Words for Elul will enlighten and enhance your High Holy Days and the year ahead.  

30 Days of Elul at Temple Beth El

Awesome Quotes for the DAYS OF AWE

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This year, the Temple Beth El Clergy have created the 30 Days of Elul: Awesome Quotes for the Days of Awe. Elul is the month preceding the High Holy Days. This is a month to spiritually prepare for the High Holy Days to reflect and repent. Elul is traditionally a time of introspection and personal accounting.

Starting in the evening of Sunday, August 8, 2021, and each of the 29 days of the Hebrew month of Elul, a new box will be clickable below to reveal a new quote of inspiration handpicked by the Temple Beth El Clergy to prepare us for the Jewish New Year. We will be sending daily notifications via email, text, or social media for each new inspirational quote, or you can bookmark this page to visit each day. 

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Sunday, August 8
Rosh Chodesh Elul

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Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing… memory.  The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins. It is only by tracing the pin prick back to other pinpricks – when his mother tried to fix his sleeve while his arm was still in it, when his grandfather‘s fingers fell asleep while stroking his great grandfather’s damp forehead, when Abraham tested the knifepoint to be sure Isaac would feel no pain – that the Jew is able to know why it hurts. When a Jew encounters a pin, he asks: “What does it remember like?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer 

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Monday,
August 9
1 Elul 5781

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Tuesday,
August 10
2 Elul 5781

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Wednesday,
August 11
3 Elul 5781

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Thursday,
August 12
4 Elul 5781

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Friday,
August 13
5 Elul 5781

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saturday,
August 14
6 Elul 5781

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Sunday,
August 15
7 Elul 5781

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monday,
August 16
8 Elul 5781

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Tuesday,
August 17
9 Elul 5781

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wednesday,
August 18
10 Elul 5781

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thursday,
August 19
11 Elul 5781

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Friday,
August 20
12 Elul 5781

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Saturday,
August 21
13 Elul 5781

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Sunday,
August 22
14 Elul 5781

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MONday,
August 23
15 Elul 5781

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Tuesday,
August 24
16 Elul 5781

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wednesday,
August 25
17 Elul 5781

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Thursday,
August 26
18 Elul 5781

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friday,
August 27
19 Elul 5781

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saturday,
August 28
20 Elul 5781

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sunday,
August 29
21 Elul 5781

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monday,
August 30
22 Elul 5781

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tuesday,
August 31
23 Elul 5781

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Wednesday,
september 1
24 Elul 5781

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thursday,
september 2
25 Elul 5781

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friday,
september 3
26 Elul 5781

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saturday,
september 4
27 Elul 5781

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Sunday,
september 5
28 Elul 5781

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monday, september 6 | 29 Elul 5781

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