Kever Avot v’Imahot (honoring our beloved departed). During the Days of Awe, it is traditional to visit the resting places of our loved ones and reflect on their lives. Your presence at this brief but moving ceremony at the Shaarie Torah cemetery will support those who mourn, honor those whose work we continue to enjoy, and remember those who have been left behind. You need not be a mourner or have anyone buried there to participate.

In addition, we will attend to the accumulated sacred texts of the past year, burying them with love and respect. In this manner, we learn cemetery etiquette and come to see the lives of those who have gone before us as beautiful and as holy as the text of the Torah.

During the Rosh Hashanah holiday, many individuals and synagogues observe a fun outdoor holiday whose origins go back to the Middle Ages. It’s called tashlich, which is the hebrew word for “casting off / throwing off.” We will gather at the edge of the river for the symbolic ritual of casting out our sins.