Spend the High Holy Days with CST

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Rabbi Gary Oren

In a world increasingly filled with simulations, filters, and performances, may these High Holy Days be an opportunity to rediscover what is most real: our relationships, our values, our hopes, and our capacity to change.

So come. Come with your questions. Come with your doubts. Come with your gratitude and your regrets. Come with an open heart, ready to listen, to sing, to reflect, and to begin again.

And if you know someone who is searching for a place to belong this High Holy Day season, invite them. There is always room in our sanctuary and always space in our community for another soul seeking meaning, connection, and hope.

Together, let’s prove that what makes us human cannot be replicated by a machine: our ability to love, to forgive, to grow, and to choose one another, again and again.

    • This schedule and its details are subject to change.
    • Services that take place in our sanctuary will be livestreamed to our streaming page.
    • We are happy to loan out copies of Machzor Lev Shalem to those who cannot attend in person and want to follow along with the livestreamed services. Please contact the shul office to arrange pick up and drop off: cst@shaarietorah.org.
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Selichot​

Selichot services are communal prayers for Divine forgiveness, said during the High Holiday season and on Jewish fast days.

🗓️ Saturday, September 5, 2026

    • Havdalah 8:25pm

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. To make sure you have a sweet new year, it’s traditional to eat honey and apples. Rosh Hashanah is a time to begin introspection, looking back at the mistakes of the past year and planning the changes to make in the new year, continuing through the Days of Awe and Yom Kippur.

Make sure to Register for Services if you plan to attend in person.

🍎 Erev Rosh Hashanah

    • Friday, September 11
    • Candles: 7:10pm
    • Erev Rosh Hashanah Services: 7pm, in our sanctuary and streaming HERE

🍎 Rosh Hashanah: Day 1

    • Saturday, September 12
    • Services: 9am, in our sanctuary and streaming HERE
    • Family Experience  10am, in our chapel
    • Candles for Day 2: 8:11pm

🍎 Rosh Hashanah: Day 2

    • Sunday, September 13
    • Services: 9am, in our sanctuary and streaming HERE
    • Havdalah: 8:09pm

Shabbat Shuva

The Shabbat that falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Shuvah, or the Sabbath of return. If the word reminds you of teshuvah, that’s not a coincidence; they share a common root.

Teshuvah, or repentance, is a core concept of the High Holidays. The word means “return”. Services on Shabbat Shuvah are typically solemn and focused. The Haftarah portion deals with themes of repentance and forgiveness.

🗓️ Friday, September 18 | Candles at 6:57pm

    • Services: Saturday, September 19 at 9:15am | Havdalah: 7:57pm

Kever Avot v'Imahot and Tashlich

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.

🗓️ Sunday, September 20

    • Kever Avot & Imahot Personal Blessing Graveside: 9:30am-11am
    • Taslich: 11am at Westmoreland Park. Park on SE 22nd Avenue between SE Bybee and SE Knapp and look for balloons and a shofar. We will gather at the picnic tables near the path.

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, also referred to as The Day of Atonement, is a holiday observed with fasting and prayer on the 10th day of Tishri.

While fasting on Yom Kippur is traditional and expected of adults, some people are unable to fast due to health reasons. Take care of yourself.

Make sure to Register for Services if you plan to attend in person.

📚 Kol Nidre

    • Sunday, September 20
    • Erev Yom Kippur candles at 6:53pm
    • Kol Nidre: 6:30pm, in our sanctuary and streaming HERE

📚 Yom Kippur

    • Monday, September 21
    • Services: 9am, in our sanctuary and streaming HERE
    • Yizkor following Torah Service
    • Family Experience: 10-11:30am, in our chapel
    • Minchah: 5:30pm
    • Divrei Tapenu: 6:30pm
    • Neilah: 6:45pm
    • Havdalah: 7:53pm with Break Fast sponsored by the CST Sisterhood in the social hall immediately after Havdalah

Sukkot

Sukkot begins five days after Yom Kippur and is named after the booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew) in which Jews are supposed to dwell during this week-long celebration. According to rabbinic tradition, these flimsy sukkot represent the huts in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering the desert after escaping from slavery in Egypt. The festival of Sukkot is one of the three great pilgrimage festivals (chaggim or regalim) of the Jewish year.

🌱 Erev Sukkot

    • Friday, September 25
    • Candles: 6:43pm

🌱 Sukkot Day 1

    • Saturday, September 26
    • Services: 9:15am in Sukkah, on Zoom, and streaming HERE
    • Candles for Day 2: 7:44pm

🌱 Sukkot Day 2

    • Sunday, September 27
    • Services: 9:15am in Sukkah, on Zoom, and streaming HERE
    • Havdalah: 7:42pm

🌱 Sisterhood Happy Hour in the Sukkah

    • Wednesday, September 30 at 6pm

HoShana Rabah - Simchat Torah

The last days of the week-long festival is marked by a day known as HoShana Rabah, which has more in common with the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The next day is a separate holiday altogether, Shmini Atzeret. Also known as Simchat Torah focuses on the Torah, as a new cycle of reading the Five Books Of The Torah begins.

🎉 HoShana Rabah

🎉 Shemini Atzeret

    • Saturday, October 3
    • Services/Yizkor: 9:15am in the sanctuary and streaming HERE
    • Simach Torah candles: 7:30pm
    • Simchat Torah Party: 6pm, in Social Hall

🎉 Simchat Torah

    • Sunday, October 4
    • Services: 9:15am on ZOOM ONLY
    • Havdalah: 7:28pm