High Holy Days 2020/5781

High Holy Days 2020/5781 Schedule

All services will be on YouTube and can be accessed here: thetemplelouky.org/streaming (same as streaming Friday night services on YouTube).

All Zoom classes can be accessed here: thetemplelouky.org/HHD-Zoom-Classes/ (one link for all classes – no passcode – Meeting ID 567 120 177).

SELICHOT Saturday Evening, September, 12

7:00-8:00 pm Selichot Service on YouTube
Selichot Services present a taste of the most memorable melodies and prayers in preparation for the High Holy Days. Prayers of repentance, Avinu Malkeinu, and the sounds of the shofar echo in our ears; the light of the Havdalah candle shines before our eyes; as we welcome the New Year in the spirit of hope and peace.

8:00-9:00 pm Tikkun Leil Selichot on Zoom
A late night study session held after our Selichot service to help repair ourselves and our world. Rabbi Rapport shares a Hasidic legend surrounded by a niggun, a song without words, and we will share our insights on the tale and the path it illuminates towards the building of a better age.

EREV ROSH HASHANAH Friday, September 18

6:00-6:30 pm Children’s Service on Zoom
An interactive prayer service for families with young children. Drawing on our favorite tales from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, this story time service includes original poems and prayers along with the traditional liturgy and contemporary music for the High Holy Days.

7:00-8:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service on YouTube
Service will be led from The Temple’s customized prayer book. Music provided by the professional choir.
Rabbi David Sermon

ROSH HASHANAH Saturday, September 19

10:00-11:15 am Rosh Hashanah Morning Service on YouTube
Service will be led from The Temple’s customized prayer book. Music provided by the professional choir. We will chant from the Torah and hear the sounds of the Shofar.
Governor Andy Beshear Message
Rabbi Rapport Sermon

11:30 am-12:00 pm Pre-K to Kindergarten Hugim on YouTube
In this video you will find goodhearted and educational stories accompanied by simple crafts that are easy to do at home. Learn the history of Rosh Hashanah, what it means to have a “Sweet” new year, and dive into some amazing DIY crafts such as colorful apple prints and creative homemade apple trees.

1:00-1:15 pm Tashlich at Captain’s Quarters
Symbolic casting off sins at Captain’s Quarters dock (RSVP required in advance at thetemplelouky.org/tashlich).

Tashlich will be held in-person using a sound system, appropriate physical distancing, and will be streamed on Facebook Live.

2:00-2:30 pm Grades 1-3 Hugim on YouTube
In this video you will find goodhearted, educational stories accompanied by simple crafts that are easy to do at home. Learn the history of Rosh Hashanah, what it means to have a “Sweet” new year, and dive into some amazing DIY crafts such as beautiful pomegranate suncatchers and sweet smelling honey playdough.

6:00-6:30 pm Grades 4-6 High Holy Days Your Way on Zoom
Interactive journey to experience Rosh Hashanah in a new and exciting way for Grades 4-6 students.

7:00-7:30 pm Youth Led Havdalah on Zoom
Havdalah calls us to mark a separation from the sacred time of Shabbat and the Holy Days to the challenges of the week and the year to come. This year Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, so we celebrate the passage of both with this brief service of light, joy, and song, led by our High School Youth.

SHABBAT SHUVAH Friday, September 25

7:00-7:45 pm Erev Shabbat Service on YouTube

Saturday, September 26

9:00-10:00 am Torah Study on Zoom

10:30-11:30 am Shabbat Morning Service on YouTube

EREV YOM KIPPUR/KOL NIDREI SERVICE Sunday, September 27

6:00-6:30 pm Children’s Yom Kippur Service on Zoom
An interactive prayer service for families with young children. Drawn from The Star Bellied Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss, this story time service teaches lessons on prejudice and peacemaking including original poems and prayers along with the traditional liturgy and contemporary music for the High Holy Days.

7:00-8:00 pm Kol Nidrei Service on YouTube
Service will be led from The Temple’s customized prayer book. Music provided by the professional choir.
Rabbi Diamond will be chanting Kol Nidrei
Rabbi David Sermon

YOM KIPPUR Monday, September 28

10:00-11:15 am Yom Kippur Morning Service on YouTube
Service will be led from The Temple’s customized prayer book. Music provided by the professional choir. Torah will be chanted, in person.
Rabbi Rapport Sermon

11:30 am-12:00 pm Pre-K to Kindergarten Hugim on YouTube
In this video you will find goodhearted, educational stories accompanied by simple crafts that are easy to do at home. Learn the history of Yom Kippur, why this holiday is so meaningful, and dive into some amazing DIY crafts that showcase the importance of saying, “I’m sorry.”

12:00-1:00 pm Educational with Rabbi David on Zoom
Why Do We Experience Pain and Suffering in our Lives? How does Jewish tradition acknowledge and protect us from painful emotions? How do we relate to emotions in our own culture?

1:00-2:00 pm Educational with Rabbi Rapport on Zoom
Join Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport and Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III, President of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, for a conversation on race, religion, and repairing the world.

2:00-2:30 pm Grades 1-3 Hugim on YouTube
In this video you will find goodhearted, educational stories accompanied by simple crafts that are easy to do at home. Learn the history of Yom Kippur, why this holiday is so meaningful, and dive into some amazing DIY crafts that showcase the importance of saying, “I’m sorry.”

2:30-3:30 pm Afternoon Service on YouTube
Celebrating the heritage of our historic congregation as a founder of Reform Judaism in America through a service of prayer and song drawn from the old Union Prayer Book which was used in our congregation for more than 75 years. The service will be enriched by the music of the great classical age of American Reform Judaism.

3:45-4:45 pm Yizkor Service on YouTube
Yizkor is our moving service of remembrance for family and friends who have passed from this earth but never from our hearts. The service includes: traditional and creative prayers, songs, and meditations on the theme of memory; the chanting of memorial prayers and a candle lighting ceremony in memory of those lost in the Holocaust.
Rabbi Diamond Sermon

4:45-5:30 pm Concluding Service on YouTube
Service will be led from The Temple’s customized prayer book. Music provided by the professional choir.

6:00-6:30 pm Grades 4-6 High Holy Days Your Way on Zoom
Interactive journey to experience Yom Kippur in a new and exciting way for Grades 4-6.

7:00-7:30 pm Youth Led Havdalah on Zoom
As the sun sets and the Gates of Repentance begin to close, we celebrate Havdalah and begin the year anew. We sing our way through this brief service of separation with a braided candle, fruit of the vine, spices, and a prayer for new beginnings led by our High School Youth.

The vision of creating new prayer books for these High Holy Days came from the hope that we might provide for our congregation a way to bridge the distance of the virtual services which we are streaming into their homes, by placing in their hands these familiar words of prayer in an accessible and familiar form. The services are designed specifically for our congregation, drawn with Hebrew and English prayers selected from the current and historic prayer books of Reform Judaism, other High Holy Day resources and prayers, and blessings written by rabbis of The Temple as well. Editing these new prayer books was a labor of love – with Rabbi David carefully selecting the prayers to fit well within an online format, while Rabbi Rapport designed and edited each page of the 150-page work. And none of this would have been possible without the support of The Temple Women of Reform Judaism / Sisterhood and The Temple Brotherhood who sponsored the project so that every Temple family could receive a copy of the prayer books delivered to their homes.