High Holy Days
About High Holy Days with Kolot
At Kolot, the High Holy Days are joyful, spiritual, and full of connection, with empowering and healing drashes and beautiful musical offerings from clergy and community members alike. During the Days of Awe, we empower members and friends to illuminate a path forward for the coming year—a path marked by growth, hope, peace, and beauty.
We thank everyone who ushered in the new year with us in 5785! May all find Ohr b’Shivrah—the light in the brokenness—as we face the year ahead.
5785 Videos and D’rashes
We are pleased to share the text of this year’s beautiful Erev Rosh HaShanah, Rosh HaShanah, Shabbat Shuva, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot sermons from our clergy and congregants. Please check out this album of some of our favorite photos from the High Holy Days, and please visit Kolot's YouTube channel for recordings of our Erev Rosh HaShanah, Rosh HaShanah, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur services.
All Hands Open Doors
We remain committed to keeping the Days of Awe open to all. Ensuring our spaces are inclusive and that our virtual streaming is of the highest possible quality, requires us all to pitch in. A donation of any amount throughout the year will ensure that High Holy Days remain as joyful, spiritual, and full of connection as ever. It takes all hands to open Kolot’s doors so please give more if you can, less if you must.
Honor a Loved One with a Machzor Nameplate
We also offer a special way to honor those who have touched your life: a nameplate affixed in our beautiful High Holy Day prayer books (machzors), which were so generously gifted to us all by Bob and Glenn Usdin in honor of their parents and long-time Kolot members Martha and Marvin Usdin z’’l. By purchasing a nameplate, you can memorialize the names of loved ones and express gratitude for the gifts their lives have brought, both past and present, and keep them connected to our sacred community.
Kolot’s Digital Yizkor Book
We are honored to remember your loved ones through our digital Yizkor book. Our Yizkor book names each person being remembered by a Kolotnik, and is presented as a PDF for everyone to look at during and after Yom Kippur services. This is a beautiful opportunity for us to collectively name those we have lost, and to hold their memories close at one of the holiest moments of the year.
Kolot's next chapter starts now—with you!
Make this the year you become a member and find your place in this vibrant, diverse and sacred community, our Kehila Kedosha, where all hands are needed. Our Fair Share Dues policy reflects, honors, and supports the economic diversity of our community.