High Holy Days
Each year the Pardes Hannah community selects a theme to guide us through the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe). Community members reflect on this theme, and at various points during the services, share some way its key concepts have resonated in their lives. It is one of the ways that we, as a community, do heshbon nefesh (spiritual account-taking) for the year past, while opening up new personal and communal “heart-space” for the year that is a-borning.
This year
5778/ 2018
Ve-taher libenu le-ovedekha be-emet
Purify our hearts so we may serve You—and serve our communities and serve our planet–in truth
Reflections on the theme from Reb Elliot Ginsburg
As musical accompaniment for our davenen: consider two texts on the Pure Heart…one taking off from the Liturgy (R. Zalman) and the other an excerpt from Psalm 51.
Past years
5777/ 2017
Gosher Gesharim: Creating webs of radical connection
Reflections on the theme from Reb Elliot Ginsburg
5776/ 2016
Mishkan / Sanctuary
Reflections on the theme from Reb Elliot Ginsburg
Lekha eli teshuqati (Diwan ha-Lev)
Lekha eli teshuqati (Hayim Yisrael)
5775/ 2015
Shalom, Large and Small
Reflections on the theme from Reb Elliot Ginsberg
5774/ 2014
Weaving the Generations: Mi-dor le-Door
Reflections on the theme from Reb Elliot Ginsberg