Brookline Community Selichot
6:30pm – 9:00pm and 9:30pm -1:00am
Join us for a soulful beginning to the High Holy Days with an evening of meditation, learning and inspiring prayer.
Together with Co-Sponsors Congregation Kehilath Israel, Hebrew Senior Life, Center Communities of Brookline, Minyan Shalem, Kavod Boston and the Harvard Minyan.
AT 1550 BEACON STREET (IN-PERSON)
6:30pm – Early session with teacher Rabbi Leah Nussbaum of Hebrew Senior Life
7:30pm – Havdalah with Rabbi Jim Morgan
8:00-9:00pm – Early selichot with Rabbi Jim Morgan
AT TBZ (MULTI-ACCESS) (See Happenings or Call the TBZ Office for the Zoom link.)
9:30-10:15pm – Meditation led by Nishmat Hayyim: The Breath of Life Project @ TBZ
10:30-11:30pm – Arousing Desire for Liberation and Racial Justice
with Rabbi David Jaffe and Yehudah Webster,
creators of the 10 Session workshop, Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out
The month of Elul is known as the “Days of Ratzon/Desire’’ when our desire to return to our spiritual source and our highest selves is met by the Blessed One’s desire for closeness with us. A key part of this return is cleaning up the ways systemic oppression and mistreatment of one another distorts our souls and relationships. This selichot learning calls on us to access our ratzon/deep desire for goodness, repair and an end to the distortions of racism as part of the teshuva process.
11:30pm – Selichot with Rabbi Ebn Leader, Noah Weinberg and Friends