Beth Jacobs Synagogue - Rosh Hashanah 9/12/2026

Good morning all you early birds. We're gonna start with what we ended with last night with adon hustle which is number six in your supplement. This is a put that is sung all during the month of El the month we have just ended every morning in the Sardik and Misrai communities and I think it's absolutely gorgeous. So the chorus is you can sit down. [singing] It's in your supplement number six. [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> Oh, wait. Hold on. I forgot to tell you. It is on page 780. Oh, I had it last night. Sorry. Might not be able to find it. Here we go. 7 90 [singing] four [singing] >> [singing] >> Do [singing] hle. Halleluif. [singing] >> [singing] >> Zot [singing] rale [singing] raalle. [singing] for [singing] [singing] not [singing] [singing] live on Hallelu. [singing] So note [singing] raal [singing] hallelu po Roid [singing] do role [singing] rale Oh may [singing] alle of him. [singing] A reading from my colleague Rabbi Lewis Eron. Russia Shana never comes at the right time. It is always too early or too late. Who can remember exactly when the wheels of our Jewish year intersect the cycles of secular time and interrupt our worldly life. Rashashana never comes at the right time. Sneaking in right at the end of summer after vacation and as school begins. We're hanging around in the background only to arrive just after our autuminal schedule has been set. Rashashana always comes before we are ready to put aside our past and lay our burdens down. There's always something else to do. Another job, another client, laundry to fold, a room to paint. Rashashana always catches us by surprise. Showing up with a chauffear blast and a chorus of angels proclaiming hin yumhadin the new year is here. Judgment day has arrived. An unexpected summons like being called to the principal's office or an audit from the IRS. So we stop. We turn and listen to the arresting voice within us and around us. And we gather together and pray for peace and for blessings. Page 140. Hi, this is a special high holiday mauvu by Danny Massing. Mu motto. [singing] Oh, [singing] [singing] mto [singing] [singing] Michigan [singing] Isel [singing] to vu. Mule [singing] Mishka [singing] Isel Mu. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> is [singing] a don. I [singing] te [singing] every day [singing] tonight. Oh, sing [singing] my vu [singing] mu [singing] Isel. Mu [singing] mu mu [singing] [singing] is the need to vote. >> [singing] >> Elo [singing] mu. [singing] >> [singing] >> Michigan [singing] is mu [singing] [singing] Isel. >> [singing] >> M to mle. [singing] [singing] [snorts] Um, so Larry, I've got your welcome now, but we're going to put it off till there are more people for you to welcome. Okay. >> Oh, I didn't even know I was, but I >> That's That's why you That's why I knew your name because you were you were in my script. Yeah. Um, so later. >> Sure. >> I'll give you a chance to think about what you're going to say. >> Yeah. I'm cut right now. >> Okay. So for those who wear the talit and have not put it on yet, the blessing is on page 142. page 160. During the early days of COVID when we were all zooming Shabbat services, I kind of shopped because you could do that on your computer screen. And I started going pretty regularly to Ben Jesan to BJ in New York. And I love that they begin their services with this um this covenant, this intention, which you'll find on page 159 and 160. And I've made it kind of part of my doining life. And men say [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> I stand here ready in body and mind to take upon myself the mitzvah. You shall love your fellow human being as yourself. And by this merit may I open up my mouth. a good intention for these holidays. Page 162. Just as evening high holiday services have their own nusak, their own musical motif which we heard last night. Da [singing] da da da da da da da. Morning high holiday services have their own nusak which is la [singing] and we'll hear a lot of that through our morning services including these morning blessings. So we'll do the and then we will switch to the English you'll get it. Elohim [singing] who removes sleep from my eyes and slumber from my eyelids. And please join me. 164. Who gives the bird of dawn discernment to tell day from night? >> [singing] >> Elohim who stretches forth the earth upon the waters. Elohim. Who makes the blind to see? Elohim. Who the naked? [singing] Elohim. Who makes the captive free? >> [singing] >> who raises up the humble. 165 166 who makes firm a person's steps who acts for all my needs. Eloha who girds Israel with strength elim who crowns Israel with splendor who made me in your image. >> [singing] >> Elohim who made me free. Adonai who made me of the people Israel [singing] who gives strength to the weary. We rub the last bits of sleep out of our eyes and prepare to face the new day and to face the new year. 169 170. We take a moment of gratitude for our bodies and the wondrous ways they work and function. >> [singing] >> Blessed are you, miraculous, the wondrous healer of all flesh. And stitched together with our bodies for as long as we live are our nishamote, our souls, our spirits. And we give God gratitude for those as well. 172 [singing] Hello to [singing] shore. [singing] till I shine. [singing] Elohim. [singing] 194. Good morning. Amomar. God spoke the world into being. It's a reminder of how very powerful speech can be and how words can create reality. Fore [singing] [singing] mira. I'll [singing] march. [singing] page 240. We are jumping. I just learned from Shauna that this is only your second time using these moss. So these maksurim are very full with lots of choices. Um, you know, think of the Chinese restaurant menu kind of thing. One from column A and one from column B. They are also, you've probably noticed, and if you haven't, you will, near the end of Yum Kipur afternoon, if you're fasting, they are very heavy. [laughter] When they first came out, the joke going through the reconstructionist movement was, you know, who by flood, who by fire, who by moxur. Um so I've done a lot of picking and choosing and hence the jumping. Um and sometimes we jump backwards as well. Um so yeah uh page 240 because in addition to rashash shana it is also shabbat mirat mash [singing] mir Here she miser. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [singing] [singing] Foreimch. [singing] The [singing] Lot [singing] Miss Mar [singing] Hash Mash [singing] and the bottom of 242. [singing] above [singing] me [singing] tonight. [singing] Oh, [singing] you knew the [singing] sh [singing] love of the page 248. Four lines from the bottom in the Hebrew or transliterated below. [singing] Shaloo shalom [singing] shalom shal. [singing] Pray for the peace of Israel. [singing] Pray for the peace of Yeshua. [singing] Pray for the peace of all the world [singing] that all may live in peace. Shaloo shalom shaling. [singing] Shalom. Jerusalem. [singing] Shalom. Jerusale. [singing] [singing] Pray for the peace [singing] of Israel. Pray for the peace of [singing] Ishmael. Pray for the peace of all the world [singing] that all may live in peace. Amen. [singing] 262. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. [singing] Hallelu. >> [singing] >> Hallelu. [singing] Hallelu. Hallelu. [singing] Good love. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. [singing] Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelujah. [singing] Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu [singing] Hallelujah. Hallelu [singing] healing. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu [singing] Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah [singing] Hallelujah [singing] Hallelu Hallelujah Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah Hallelu Hallelu [singing] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [singing] Hallelu. Hallelu. [singing] 264. >> I think we have enough people here to do three-part harmony. What do you think? >> No. Okay, this is part one. [singing] Really easy [singing] once more. [singing] That's kind of the drone part. Part two. The breath of all life blesses you. The breath of [singing] all life blesses you. The breath of all [singing] life. Blesses [singing] you. Part one. >> [singing] >> Part two. The breath of [singing] life blesses you. There's a beat. The breath of [singing] life blesses you. Let's put those together before we do part three. Pick pick um nishmat and the breath of all life. Okay. So, we start we'll all start with nish and then you guys will keep doing nishmat and you guys will do the breath. Okay. [singing] >> [singing] >> Morning live the breath of [singing] all life blesses [singing] you. our blesses [singing] you. Sounds good. Now you sopranos. Wait, stop. Stop. Sopranos can do the breath of [clears throat] the breath of all [singing] life blesses you. Same beat. The breath of all [singing] life blesses is you. So part two is the breath of all life blesses is you and the high part is [clears throat] the breath of [singing] all life. Bless is you. Okay everybody pick your favorite part and then see what happens. >> [singing] >> The breath of [singing] all bless is you breath of all [singing] life. Bless is you [singing] [music] the breath of all life. [singing] Bless is you the breath of [singing] all life. Bless is you. The breath of all [singing] bless is you. [singing and music] One more lot last time [singing] the breath of life. Bless [singing] is you. Nice. Gorgeous. Thank you. >> What? >> Nice holding down the low part down here. Yeah. All right. 264. >> Two. No, that's wrong. 266 >> [singing] >> Let us have songs to fill our mouths as full as the sea. Let us have songs to fill our mouths as full as the [singing] sea. full as the sea. I [singing] loo. [singing] Let us have songs to fill our mouths as full as the sea. Let us have songs to fill our mouths as full [singing] as the sea. Full as the sea. [singing] For you m musicians out there who were sort of bristling at that. I know it's in like 37 time or something weird like that, but that's how she wrote it. Um, okay. Uh, page 269. I'm going to read the commentary near the bottom of the page. Rashashana is the descendant of ancient neareastern ceremonies celebrating the annual reenthronement of the local king and deity. In the ancient mythologies, this enthronement was associated with the defeat of chaos. We too have a need to reenthrone meaning in the face of the chaos of our lives. I brought maybe some of you saw this piece in the Washington Post about two weeks ago by Rabbi Ellie Counter. Um, and I've shortened it a lot, but I was really glad to see it because it addressed what I'd been thinking of. It's called Why Two Jewish Holidays Have Me Thinking of No Kings. Uh, so yeah, because I shortened it so much, it's a little bit disjointed, but I wanted to share pieces of it with you. This has been a year of crowds chanting no kings in the streets of American cities. Whatever you think of the politics behind the slogan, the sentiment it expresses is both ancient and entirely reasonable. The suspicion of unchecked power. At the emotional center of both Rashashana and Yamipur is a word that recurs in the liturgies, king. We will crown God ceremonially as ruler of the universe. We will recite Aenu Malcanu, our father, our king, numerous times. [clears throat] To modern ears, especially American ones, this language may sound strange. We are suspicious of kings. Now, we are asked to bow before one over and over again. But 2,000 years before anyone printed a protest sign, the ancient rabbis who composed these words wrestled with the same discomfort we feel today. Indeed, the rabbitic approach to God as king or we would say God as sovereign can be summed up simply. Whatever you think a human king is, God is the opposite. According to a story in the Talmud, Ainu Malenu was born during a drought. One rabbi, Rabbi Eleazar, performed the entire formal prayer for rain. Nothing happened. Then a second famous sage, Rabbi Akiva, Hi Shana, brought forth a much more daring plea. Ainua. Our father, our king. We have no king but you. Our father, our king, act for your own sake and have mercy on us. The reigns came. Rabbi Aka didn't ask to be rescued for his own sake. He reminded God that God too had something invested in the relationship. And he fused two potent images. That of a parent whose bond with his child is unconditional and that of a king whose power is supreme. Put them together and you get the suggestion of something godlike. Omnipotence attached to unconditional love. We Americans are understandably wary of kings. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it may seem downright strange to celebrate a sovereign during the most important Jewish holidays. But God's kingship, God God's sovereignty serves to highlight the insufficiency of any human sovereign. Justice is a rebuke to every form of oppression. Long before crowds shouting no kings conflated kingship with tyranny, the rabbitic tradition proposed the opposite. That the true sovereign was the furthest thing from a tyrant. Rather than mistreat his people, God draws close to us. Instead of ignoring our distress, God looks on us with kindness and mercy. That's a strange kind of king. Rabbi Calner says it might also be the only vision of power worthy of respect. I commend the entire article to you. I cut out big parts. We're on page 270. >> Can you speak a little closer to the mic? >> Yeah, thanks for asking me to. How's that? Oh, better. I can tell, too. Yes. Okay, keep reminding me if I move away. Page 270. [singing] just need to show [singing] running [singing] foreign. [singing] >> [singing] >> In the congregations of the tens of thousands of your people, the house of Israel, through joyful song, your name is glorified. ified our sovereign in each and every generation. Thus is the obligation of all creatures in your presence. Holy one our God of our ancestors to thank to hail to praise to glorify to hold a loft and to embellish and to bless and to exalt and to revere beyond all words of song and praise sung by your servant David son of Jesse your anointed one. I have a few schedule updates. >> Ah okay. [laughter] >> So um just you know chiming in here. Um Larry Larry's not speaking. He spoke last year. Um we >> [laughter] >> um >> okay >> Freda Freda welcomed us with a lovely welcome last year. I mean last night. Thank you Freda. Um there is not going to be a quote unquote devar. We had a last minute family issue come up. Um but Yona and Shauna when there would normally be a demar have selected a few lovely Kavanaaugh readings. Um so that's my update for you. >> Thank you [clears throat] for all of you. >> Wow. Okay. Okay. >> I know. I totally throw you off. Sorry. >> That's all right. 274. [singing] Blessed is the one who lives eternally. 276. Let's get out of Nusa. >> [singing] [singing] >> We're on page 278. Please rise as able for Baroo. Mar [singing] and be seated. H280. Say shalom. [singing] Continue silently on 283 284. 286. >> [singing] >> God love to [singing] speech. >> [singing] >> photoshar. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] >> Fore! [singing] Foreign! Foreign! Surana But no [singing] courtes at the bottom with a few little changes. Every [singing] day creation is renewed. Wake [singing] up and see. That's the repeating part. Every day [singing] creation is renewed. Wake up and see [singing] in the spreading light of dawn. The world and [singing] all it contains coming into being new and fresh, filled with divine goodness and love. [singing] Every day creation is renewed. [singing] Wake up and see. Every [singing] day creation is renewed. Wake up and see. Reflected in the great [singing] lights, we see a brand new day. [singing] One precious day, eternity, [singing] every [singing] day. Creation is renewed. Wake up and see. Every day [singing] creation is renewed. Wake up and see. [singing] Page 300. >> [singing] [singing] >> A for a [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> I'm rais [singing] for [singing] 302. [singing] Hallelujah. [singing] The Lord [singing] come on. [singing] Fore [singing] Well, sure. [singing] 304 [singing] Is [singing] [singing] Mother's [singing] Let's do the one we know. You may [singing] continue silently. 305 through 32. There are two readings to choose between the traditional one and a different one. >> [snorts] >> I shall say, "Take them from me. We're on 318. This was not part of my plan, but you're such singers that that I'm gonna change out. Um, how did we know we would need our drums? How did we know we would need our tambourines? How did we know we would need our drums? As we love the narrow places. La. [singing] How did we know we would cross the sea? How did we know we would cross to freedom? How did we know we would cross the sea? As we left the narrow places, la [singing] How did we know we would drum and dance? How did we know we would sing and celebrate? How did we know we would drum and dance as we left the narrow [singing] places? La La. [singing] Joseph. Oh fella la. [singing] [singing] Works better when you bring your tambourine. Next time ah 318. As we move into Amida space, invite you to rise as able when you're ready. Israel [singing] is [singing] God is turn to three4. >> [singing] >> Hello. Elche. The munchch. [singing] Adonets [singing] of Elohim [singing] again. [singing] >> [singing] >> So [singing] the [singing] moon >> [singing] >> Give me [singing] F. [singing] heart. Continue silently through 3:44 >> 3:44 >> Silently through 3:44. Feel free to be seated when you're finished. Welcome to company. Page 345. Your parts are the indented parts. When we really begin a new year, it is decided. And when we actually repent, it is determined. >> Who shall be truly alive? >> Who shall be tormented by the fire of ambition and whose hope shall be quenched by the waters of failure? Who shall be by the sharp sword of enemy? And who shall be torn by the wild beasts of >> who shall hunger for companionship and who shall thirst for approval? >> Who shall be shattered by storms of change and shall be by the pressures of conformity. >> Who shall be strangled by insecurity and who shall be beaten into submission. Who shall be content with their shall satisfaction? >> Who shall be serene and who shall be distraught? >> Who shall be poor in their own eyes and who shall be rich in tranquility? power of our lives. >> May we resolve then to turn from our accustomed ways and to behave righteously so that we may truly begin a new year. We are on page 348. I invite you again to rise as ever. [singing] I [singing] know [singing] who vote in [singing] >> [singing] >> love. [singing] Now we declare the sacred power of this day which is the most awesome and solemn of days when your rule is established above all and your throne set in place by the power of love and you come forth to govern in truth. True it is that you are our judge. You alone can reprove. You alone can know. You alone are witness to all deeds. It is you who shall write. You who shall seal what is written, you who shall read, you who shall number all souls. You alone can remember what we have forgotten. It is you who shall open the book of remembrance, but its contents shall speak for themselves, for it bears the imprint of us all, which our deeds and our lives have inscribed. Join me, please. And when the great chauffar is sounded, a small quiet voice can be heard and the heavenly beings are thrown into fright and seized by a terrible dread. They declare, "Behold, the day of judgment has arrived. Even those in heaven's court are judged for none can be exempt from justice." Turn to the next page. Rashashana all is written and revealed and kipur the course of every life is sealed. [singing] Keep of [singing] >> [singing] >> Ro [singing] of yum [singing] keeper of yum keeper. Give [singing] me [singing] love shasha. >> [singing] >> Y so you keep [singing] me [singing] adore me shall Me [singing] for Young [singing] 352. to [singing] star. [singing] But chuva and fela and saddaka make easier what God may decree. Make easier what life holds in store. Make easier facing the world. Make easier facing ourselves. Continue silently. We're still in the middle of the AMA. Feel free to be seated when you're ready to be when you're finished. We'll meet again on page 378. That's it. you. Sha Shalom to sing. Shalom to [singing] sh [singing] to [singing] sh over. [singing] So long [singing] sing [singing] page 380 in the middle is a fair [singing] Isel [singing] [singing] shalom. Oh, it says poems read by Annie Paisley. >> Annie is not here today. >> Okay. >> Tomorrow. >> Will she read her poems tomorrow? >> Okay. Then we will move into our Torah service. 8 4 64 [singing] mech. whom shall [singing] I [singing] adore? Fore [singing] >> [singing] >> My >> [singing] >> S >> [singing] >> for divin [singing] We need that one. >> H. >> Excuse me. >> How could you possibly wear this around your neck? >> My spouse. >> Sure. Thanks so much. >> What does it do? >> You so goes to her hearing. >> Is that working? >> Thank you. Good. Of course. Okay. Now all these people are here. Carrie Taurus. Okay. Good. [laughter] Lovely. Uh we are on page 466. Um let's do let's pet [singing] a A day off [singing] >> [singing] >> Oh devil. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] >> Lord, [singing] King [singing] Please repeat after me. We're us using the morning nus again. >> [singing] >> Isel Elohim. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] >> God [singing and music] in our [singing] >> [singing] >> Love [singing] might [singing] high. [singing] [singing] The round the round. [singing] >> [singing] >> I shall [singing] need I soo the moon from the moon. I [singing] am you. [singing] >> [singing] >> You may be seated and oh we are on Thank you for 481. one and we have seven aliote. Well, we have eight aliote including loft here. Let's move this back here. And I was asked to create group alote [clears throat] which I tried to do from the body of the reading. Some are more stretches than others. Um so if this category seems to apply to you, please come up for an aliyah. You can come for more than one. Um I didn't make a category for the mafier aliyah because no sacrifices and yeah um so if none of these categories seems to apply to you then the the muftier will you know will be the the none of the above aliyah. How's that? Or something like that. Okay. So for the first aliyah [laughter] for the first aliyah we invite those who've experienced a surprise or something unexpected in the past year to come forward. >> Well and we'll call our guys up too. >> We'll call our guys up too. >> And our god are Joyce and Freda. Right. Okay. And I am covering this which you all may need. >> I got I got this on one page. >> You got that on one page >> and let me find the place. >> Okay. >> Um Okay. I've been told that it's been rolled to the right place. Let me see if we can find it. I might need help with this, guys. It should be rolled right. We got to get that on there. There we go. Should be should be right there. >> Yeah. Got it. Uhhuh. >> Go for it. for [singing] elimin [singing] hold on to the Please close up on me. Thank you. [singing] Anna, >> what? >> You're not project. >> All right. >> If you hold this, we'll change that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. I don't think it's going to really just do what you need to do. >> Should I do it again? >> No, you're fine. >> All right. Sorry. Lost. I've lost my continuity. They're totally Eloh. [singing] Amen. We just need one of you to stay over. >> Yep. One representative. Oh, one. >> Okay. >> All right. >> I'm in the middle. >> I'll go over here. >> All right. to you all. For the second, we call those who've had reason to laugh or rejoice deeply in the past year. She's She's >> [laughter] >> Okay. >> Joy blessing. And where are we here? We're somewhere up here. >> Sorry. We are wait. >> Got it. >> Yes. Okay. So, right here. Someone touch, please. Shut up. [laughter] Elohim. [singing] Amen. [singing] Amen. >> [singing] >> But [singing] Elohim [singing] Abraham Fore! Foreign! Foreign! by Omega is [singing] elohain. Amen. [singing] >> That's your book. >> Yeah. >> Where's my book? >> Well, that's mine. >> Here. Here. >> Oh, [laughter] thank you. >> Okay. [gasps] Oh, for the third Oh, yeah. >> Maras. Um, for those adults in here, um, who really want to go to the children's service, apologize, I forgot to announce it. It started 15 minutes ago. [laughter] >> You're late. >> You're late, but I think they'll still accept you. [laughter] >> All honor to Jessica. >> Thank you. Okay, this this one is a little bit maybe more self disclosure than you're comfortable with. This one is for those who have experienced family discord in the past year. >> Who hasn't? >> Who hasn't? [laughter] >> It's It's the theme of the Torah reading. >> We got takers. We got takers. >> We got takers. >> Just slow to move up. >> All right. >> You're brave. I need it. [laughter] >> Got more takers. >> Thank you. Are you ready? Easy. Easier. Go for it. No, >> you repeat it. >> [singing] >> Torah. Amen. Abraham Hazen Abraham. Abraham Elohim Elra ala Sherto, [singing] I share my >> [singing] >> No. Amen. >> Somewhere up here. I read Hagar. >> We're right here. >> Yes. Yes. I read Hagar. >> Yes. >> There you go. I just want to show you where it went. >> Thank you. Thanks. I lost you. >> The gum. >> The gum is Do we have a >> We need an up. >> Oh, sorry. >> Number four. those who have in some way helped to feed those who are hungry in the past year. And it it doesn't mean you know your children or your pets. >> I guess that's for you. Okay, wonderful. Care committee. Care committee. >> Come on. I know. I know you guys have been cooking up a storm. >> Yeah. All right. >> All right. [clears throat] rock. [singing] Hello. [singing] [singing and music] >> Now, I'm not sure where to end on this because it's Tuesday. So, you should tell me. Amen. Benyu care [singing] alma Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Alisa Vishma Elohim at Khan Malah Elohim Elar Hashim alam [singing] Eloh. [singing] I share [singing] >> now where number five we're on. >> Was I a kumi? >> Kumi city. The age >> where is it? >> Seeking eternal >> those who find beauty in the desert. >> There's people here who like to eat >> until >> I don't know. >> Yeah, I know where it ends. But >> sometimes it's cold. >> I guess that's true. That's true. Beautiful cacti. >> What? >> Beautiful cacti. >> Kumi. I can't find >> Kumi. E. Let's see. [snorts] >> Oh, here it is. Okay. >> Yeah, I guess. >> Okay. Hello. >> Okay. >> [singing] >> Eloh. [singing] Amen. for [singing] the timan. [singing] Fore [singing] I share >> [singing] >> No. [music] >> I see it. Okay. >> Go around. >> Oh yeah. Number six. 488. Those who have cut a covenant, anyone who has reached an agreement or signed a contract in the past. I guess that's the contemporary version cutting a covenant. I don't know what >> Sure. I agree with everybody [clears throat] here at my school. [laughter] >> Yeah, but we're we're Oh, thank you. [singing] Elohim [singing] charts above Elra Lemore. Elohim behav. Elohim said a Abraham for your mayhem. Abraham [singing] share. Fore [singing and music] [singing] on that side. >> Okay. >> Alia number seven. We're on page 490. >> Thank you. Those who've resolved the conflict in the past conflict. >> Resolve the conflict. >> You good? Sean, >> I really have to learn. >> Okay, good. I love it. >> What's the theme this time? Those who've resolved a conflict. [singing] on my head. Elohim [singing] [singing] Amen. >> [singing] >> Bill >> [singing] >> Abraham live. [singing] Fore [singing] to brea. for [singing] Eliton [singing] Vra. There is yarn. [singing] [music] [singing] Yeah. >> Another one from here. >> I'll grab one. >> All our and all our pause now. Let me get to my microphone. >> Pause now for blessing for those in need of healing. Healing of body, healing of spirit in our circles of life. It's number three in your supplement. Sorry. And I'll pause in the middle and give folks an opportunity to speak the names of those in your circles in need of healing. Sorry, I did not do that last night. [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> new. May the source of strength [singing and music] who bless the ones before us. Help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing. And let us say [singing] we pray for healing of Eli Chmer, Larry Cohen, Cam Morton, Michelle Clark, >> Ariel Shapiro, Anneller Hall. Kathy, >> David Schwz, >> Jerry White, Bruce Smith, >> Rabbi Sarah Newark, We share [singing] [singing] those in [singing] need of healing. >> [singing] >> The renewal of body, the renewal [singing] of spirit. And let us say, [singing] >> we need a lifter and a dresser for the first scroll. Now, is is this correct? >> Um, Rachel is coming out for Hogba. >> Rachel's coming for Hogba. Okay. I have Mark here. Is that the second one? >> That's for the second case. Okay. >> Rachel and her children Satie and Ramona. >> Rachel, Satie, and Ramona. Is that right? I share [singing] some Baby, [singing] to [singing] see my Moshe to see [singing] my new to I [singing] die. All right. >> [singing] >> At some point after singing that for years and years, I said, "Moshe, I could have sworn God was the one who created [laughter] all that." >> It's a bigger Torah. >> It's a bigger Torah. Thank you. >> Yeah, you're good. You're good. >> Different yard. Oh, I dropped. >> Okay. >> Got it. >> Thank you. [laughter] In the right place at the right time. >> All right. You may be seated. So, our muffier reading comes from the book of Numbers. You will find it on page 548. And so Shauna, since you're the left here, you shifted this and we'll invite anyone who hasn't had one yet to join you. Okay. So, anyone who was not spoken to by any of those other categories and would like an aliyah is welcome to come and join Shauna for this muftier aliyah. Anybody left? >> Yay. Okay. And the reading is found I I think I said this on page 548. So I guess we should find a place to touch. Sounds right. >> Oh, sorry. I did. >> Mhm. Okay. All right. [singing] I'm [singing] Could you hold this? >> Yeah, sure. Can I >> Where's I don't know how that happened. >> What >> the chain got it says for the second day, but it's the same. >> It's the same reading for both days. >> One of many misgrions. Got it. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Amen. true. [singing] La [singing] estron. >> [singing] >> Foreign [singing] Kev Keishbish. [singing] Eloh. [singing] Amen. Amen. [singing] [music] There's that thing again. >> Thank you. It's okay. Thank you. Page 480. Torah, Shabbat, [laughter] I'm sorry. Thank you. Amen. Amen. May the one who blessed our ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Sarah and Rebecca and Rachel and Leia bless all those here who've risen today in honor of the omnipotent, in honor of the Torah, in honor of Shabbat, in honor of this day of awe. By this merit may they be granted life and kept from all trouble and affliction from every harm or sickness. May they find blessing and success in all their labors. And may they be written and sealed for good life on this day of awe along with all Israel, all their brothers and sisters. And let us say, >> amen. >> Uh we need another lifter and dresser >> be different. >> It's all going to be different. Tom, you're a lifter. >> Get out of the way. Right there. >> Okay. Okay. Make room for you. Here we go. When you're ready. able to open it at all. [singing] [singing] Come on over here. >> [singing] >> Give us a new toe. [singing] Toa tootion. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] >> All right. Here's the one more. Okay. Okay. You may be seated. Blessing before the ha is on 551. This page five2 is the Hebrew And um my trope of course is a little different from the one most of you learned as Boron B mitzvah. So I will do um this braha will be to the trope otherwise I'll never find it. [singing] Share Adonai [singing] over Moshe Abd is [singing] mob I am at [singing] the minim. El Benu Bento Ben Ephim Shame Penn is He wrote me. [singing] Um, night [singing] sh V. for [singing] night byech. [singing] not [singing] manag >> [singing] >> Rahma the star Adonai Sh day [singing] by your mercal. [singing] ling. [singing] And year by year it happened. I'm on page 553. Whenever she went up to the house of the eternal one, her rival Kana's Kana's rival would provoke her and she wept and would not eat. Her husband El Kana would say to her, "Why are you weeping Kana? And why won't you eat? And why is your heart troubled? Am I not worth more to you than 10 children? And once after she ate and drank at Shiloh, Hana arose and Ay the priest was sitting at his station in the doorway of the house of the eternal one. And she was in a bitter mood and she prayed to the eternal while she wept and wept. She made a vow and said, "Creator of the multitudes of heaven, if truly you behold your servant's state of need, if you remember me and don't forget your servant, if you give your servant woman human seed, then I shall dedicate my child to the eternal for lifelong service, and no shears shall touch his head of hair." And while she prayed at length before the omnipresent one, a caught sight of her moving her lips because Hana was speaking to herself and only her lips were moving while her voice could not be heard. A mistook her for a drunk. And he said, "How can you be drunk like this? Put away your wine." But Kana answered, saying, "No, my lord. I am a woman sore in spirit, and no wine or liquor have I drunk, for I was only pouring out my soul to God. Do not mistake your servant for a wanting woman, for I was just now speaking out of great preoccupation and distress. [singing] Shalom. [singing] Is Is [singing] a shimo [singing] Fore [singing] air [singing] [singing] ladder. Why [singing] may I Fore [singing] key amaran. Honda Vene. near a ponto [singing] gum. Mother Chev gaml. La [singing] kash kashar [singing] va. [singing] for V is Vishku at Vana L to be adequate. [singing] B L H V 10 I don't a shalt me He shields. Too lad [singing] shai. [singing] after the are on 576. >> 576. Thank you. >> [singing] >> She called him the name. Adon, [singing] behold Adonai. I don't al aban Maybe shalom le the ala the alan the alum a hash Shabbat Adonai. Elohim. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! rest [singing] [singing] me the Israeli [singing] amen. All right. [laughter] >> Bruce in to you. >> Everybody stretch. >> Why not? >> Why not? So you and >> so actually um I will call Ya because she'll she's gonna do >> Okay. >> Right. >> All right. >> So >> people still stretching or >> Yeah, you can still stretch. You can still We were just consulting it. Okay. >> Um I I believe does this to Torah study? Should we put the Toras away first or do let's do it. >> Oh, >> whatever you want. >> Well, that's a good question. Let's Let's have the Tora out. >> Let's have the Tora out. Okay. You may be seated because [laughter] the Torah are >> the Toras are reclining. >> Do some readings, >> right? >> We're gonna do Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, Yonaf. Okay. >> And I have to [laughter] wait. Let me extract myself. >> Can I help? >> Um, well, I'm not sure. >> Can you get yours? >> Probably. Well, you could take this. Okay. >> So, it won't fall and put it on the seat that where like next to Joyce. >> Should I go? >> I'm sorry. Can I help? >> Um, just going to stay here till we get Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. So, actually >> that's my >> other thing. Sorry. >> Technology is good. >> Who's going to be first? Just >> I'll put it on there. All right. >> I'm putting it right here. >> Okay. >> It connects to Barbara's hearing. >> Okay. Good morning everyone. It is still morning. So um we don't have someone to give a devar this morning. Um however Shauna and I have selected a few readings to share with you um related to this day and these are the ones I'm reading are from a couple of um contemporary rabbis. >> Um speak up even though you do >> I'm sorry. >> Speak up. >> Speak up even if you have need to speak up. >> Oh okay. All right. So, these are from two contemporary rabbis. Um, the first one, Rabbi David Ingberamu congregation in New York, and he wrote um or he has been uh issuing uh a series of um essays uh for 40 days, the 40 days from the beginning of El through Yamipur. Um this was yesterday I believe day 29. The wisdom of restraint. Do not harden your heart. Sometimes what looks like indifference is exhaustion wearing armor. We have seen too much, heard too much, been asked to care about too much. The heart protects itself by becoming less permeable. The Torah warns, "Do not harden your heart or close your hand." The closed heart and the closed hand are linked. Compassion is not only something we feel. It is the willingness to let another person's reality interrupt our self-p protection. >> No one can remain open to everything. A heart without boundaries will burn out. But a guarded heart is different from a hard a hardened heart. Guarding [snorts] protects our capacity to care. Hardening declares that another's pain no longer concerns us. Today, notice one person you have turned into a category. A difficult relative. Oh, this is it says the difficult relative. the stranger, the opponent, the needy one. Restore one detail of their humanity. Imagine a person who loves them. Remember that they have a body that tires and a heart that fears. You do not have to agree. You do not have to abandon a boundary. Simply refuse to let a category become the whole person. May our hearts be protected but never sealed. May what we see open our hands toward one wise and human response. So again, that was Rabbi David Ingver. And here's one from Rabbi Rammy Shapiro, another reconstructionist rabbi called Hini. Here I am a little bit nervous, a bit self-conscious. After all, who am I talking to and what have I done? Am I a sinner in search of grace or a saint seeking salvation? Am I so evil or so good as to warrant this season of introspection? And yet, here it is. And here I am, this time of change and correction, this heart of confusion and contrition. Oh, if I could change, if I could be so sure of myself, then I no longer had to imagine the slights of others. To be so loving of myself, then I no longer had to ration my loving of others. To be so bold with myself that I no longer had to fear the bravery of others. Oh, if I could change, there is so much I would change. Maybe I will, but it scares me. So maybe I won't and that should scare me more, but it doesn't. So let me pray just this. Let no one be put to shame because of me. Wouldn't that make this a wonderful year? He here I am. Oh yeah. And Sean, you're up. >> Oh, I thought you No, this is it. Okay. So, that was it. >> Okay. Okay. So, I put this back on. Mhm. have a little down for you. Thank you. Okay, I think that's good. Is that good? >> Yep. Yep. >> Okay. So, before we put our [clears throat] scrolls back, this is a blessing for all things, which Oops. Little too low by Shauna and my classmate Rabbi Yv Hiligman. She calls this the allpurpose blessing. Oh source of all blessings, our world is full of needs. Some need sustenance, some need wisdom, some need strength, some need comfort. There's a spot on my glasses. We ask you to open your hand and fulfill the need and worthy desires of all life to the leaders of the United States, Israel, and all of the world. Give wisdom, compassion, strength, will, and the judgment to lead with courage. To men and women of valor, to those in uniform, who serve their countries who serve the public, grant protection from all danger, courage, endurance, and the support of their loved ones and communities when they are deployed and face danger. to the ill and the injured. Grant complete healing of mind and body, wisdom and talent to their doctors and nurses and care teams. And those for whom we forget to pray all too often. The mentally ill, the unhoused, the lost, the neediest of the needy. For those who don't ask for their own needs. To those whom we forget are even there. For all of these we pray, God, source of love, sustain them, fulfill their needs, give them joy, understanding, love, compassion. Grant them strength and its courage, encouragement to transcend their limitations. Limitations placed on them by you, by others, or upon themselves. To all who call upon you for good, grant a new year of well-being, health, prosperity, joy, blessing, and love of friends and family. And for yourself, God, may you too have a good year, blessed by the deeds of your creation, and taking joy and delight in what happens here on earth. And we all say, "Amen." >> Page 598. We have scroll car 598. Do we have scroll carriers? Okay. Tiny bit up. Oh sh [singing] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 604 Mirage. [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> My IR [singing] Call tonight. [singing] Call our shares. [singing] [singing] Allah. [singing] [singing] Yes. [singing] [music] Adore. [singing] [music] Yeah. Page 6606. Second line. >> [singing] >> It's >> [singing] >> to [singing] de [singing] shalom. Oh [singing] your [singing] [singing] you may be seated. >> [cough] >> So I have a note that Liz wants to make an announcement. Liz, are you is Liz here? >> About connect about collecting sins forelle. >> Oh, Michelle. >> Michelle. >> Why does it say it says Liz? Sorry. >> Michelle. Yes. >> Michelle, I apologize. also known as this Michelle. >> So we have a is this can you hear me? So we have a tradition uh here that was started I got the idea from somebody who got the idea from Arthur Wascow who started it where we do modern sins since on Yamipur we atone for sins we haven't done but in case someone else is not atoning for that sin or in case we did it and we didn't know that's why we atone for all all sins and so we add some modern sins like uh uh for the sin of uh destroying the rainforest. Um and I will send out on BJ announced last year's list. Uh and uh if you want to add anything, we do 18. So I choose I get to choose and since I started >> all right >> and um so I'll send out the list uh between you know two days after Russia shut up and if you want to add something please email me back [cough] and we'll see if it makes the list and I I welcome I try to do new ones add some new ones every year so >> you'll get an email through Google Google group from BJ Google or whatever Google groups from Michelle Clark. Okay. Thanks. >> Oh, that's good. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Okay. So, as you may know on when [clears throat] Shana falls on Shabbat, we do not sound the chauffear. We do elements of the chauffear service. But we do not sound it. Um, that means you can come back tomorrow and hear so far. >> Tomorrow, guys. >> Uhhuh. Um, so my things got in the wrong order. This is a an abbreviated another abbreviated reading by Rabbi Noah Levit. abbreviated by our colleague Rabbi Rabbi David Steinberg called the music of silence. On a late summer day in 1952, the pianist David Tudtor took the stage of Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York to debut a new threemovement piece by the legendary composer John Cage. He sat down at the piano and in front of a stunned audience closed the piano lid. After a minute or two, he opened it and closed it again. And then a few seconds later, opened it and closed it again. After 4 minutes and 33 seconds had passed without a sound from the piano, he opened it one final time to mark the conclusion of the piece. Critics were a gasast. What was he up to? They wondered. Could the absence of sound even be called music just as just as it is hard for us to imagine a concert without music. The sound of the chauffear is one of the first things we think about when we think of Russashana. This connect connection is of course not just based on our own experiences. The Torah itself refers to Rashashana as yom trua, a day of the sounding. And despite this, we will omit the chauffar blasts that would otherwise accompany the mahuyot zikronote and chauffarote readings that we are about to do today because it is Shabbat. Why? Well, the Jerusalem Talmet explains that we don't blow the chauffeur on Shabbat because abstaining from sounding the chauffeur on Shabbat is actually a mitzvah. Even though in one place the Torah refers to Rashashana as yum trua, the day of sounding, in another place it refers to Russashana as zon trua, the day on which the sounding is remembered. According to the Jerusalem Talmud, the latter verse refers to Shabbat. On Shabbat, the chauffeur is not sounded, only remembered. For the Jerusalem Talmud, when Rashashana falls on Shabbat, nothing is lost. The absence of the chauffear is not truly an absence or void at all, but rather the opportunity to perform a new positive commandment. At first glance, John Cage's 433 composition appears to be just the absence of sound. But those who were in the audience on that August day in 1952 realized that was not the case at all. Instead, their ears turned to the ambient noise of the crowd that surrounded them. There was an absence, but also a plethora of sounds that we all too often miss. And according to Cage, these sounds could be music as well. Life is not a musical composition. But if we listen closely in the moments where at first glance, at first glance, we hear only an absence and a void. we may hear something else as well. It is an opportunity for us to embody the words of Torah as we recall the blowing of the chauffear today and hear a new sound in that void. We'll see how it works. Our Musaf service encompasses three themes. Maluyote, awakening us to God's sovereignty. Zron note, the memories of the covenant and chauffarote as the chauffear awakens us to its call or the absence of its call. So we begin with page 612 with the great Alenu. There is a custom for those who want to try it, those who feel comfortable of fully prostrating when we do this alenu. This is something our Muslim sisters and brothers do regularly. going down on the floor to to demonstrate our submission and our humility and we do it traditionally only on the high holidays. So if folks feel comfortable doing that and would love to try it, I invite you to do it. If you don't, you can stand, you can sit for this grand alenu. And it also has its own special nusak. So please rise as you are able. Page 612. [singing] Lo [singing] sh not unito. >> [singing] >> New glory. [singing] [singing] >> [singing] [singing] >> You may be seated. Page 630, commentary on the bottom. When we become aware of our dependence upon the laws of nature, we acknowledge the rulership of a power greater than and beyond us that determines the conditions under which human life is lived. This awareness properly understood leads to humility and a recognition of the limits of human power. Page 633 harat olam. Join me in the English. Today the world is born. Today shall stand before you all the beings of the cosmos as one community to do your will with perfect heart to be renewed with their creator in the universal sacredness of life 635 also at the bottom on the first day the day of the world's birth The whole world was in a state of pure potential. Contemp contemplating that newborn world, we feel awe at the fact of creation. Rosha Shaah, we are reminded that today is a first day. We still contain with us all the awesome and godly potential of our creation. That potential is in our hands. and 638. Who is it? Right. Right below the line. Who is it who remembers? Once we believed it was the father king, God sitting above the small world and noting our behaviors in his great book. And now when life is cheap and things are thrown away after one use and there is no heaven above the earth, who is it who notes and remembers? That our behaviors are recorded in God's book means that our actions have significance. It is our choice whether to dedicate what we do to supporting redemption or resisting it. Each separate thing we do, no matter how trivial it seems, can be a vehicle for furthering this redemptive process. Yet, we discard so many opportunities each day as though what we do doesn't matter. Each day we live, each act we perform contributes to the flow of history toward salvation. Thus, each thing we do really is recorded and preserved in the world. If we act on behalf of God, so it is written, page 651. Let's read together the bottom paragraph, the middle paragraph. Today the world is born. Today shall stand before you. all the beings of the cosmos, whether as your children or your servants. If as children, show them mercy like a mother toward her children. If as your servants, then our eyes turn toward you in great anticipation that you may be gracious for the good on our behalf as clear as light of day. 6 65 665. Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun every evening relaxed and easy floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills or the rumpled sea and is gone? And how it slides again out of the blackness every morning on the other side of the world like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oil, say on a morning and early summer at its perfect imperial distance. And have you ever felt for anything such wild love? Do you think there is anywhere in any language a word billowing enough for the pleasure that fills you as the sun reaches out as it warms you as you stand there empty-handed? Or have you two turned from this world? Or have you too gone crazy for power, for things? Hayam Harat Olam, join me. This is the birthday of the world. 666. Today all beings of the cosmos listen for the chauffeur's call. His voice proclaims the world's repair through sovereignty of the almighty one. A voice that grows in strength as it proceeds. All we need do is speak and act and God will answer us. The voice awesome and >> 672 shalom to [singing] sing sha [singing] Hol [music] [singing] sing [singing] for us for [singing] [singing] me to >> [singing] [singing] >> a night. Oh, [singing] say a sh 674. His eyes am I am I am [singing] I am I am I am I Homo [singing] I am hom [singing] Amen. I am. [singing] Amen. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. [singing] Amen. I am I am. [singing] Amen. >> [singing] [singing] >> Amen. [singing] If you're standing, please remain. So for Alenu, we will do the an o version which is in the book. Hold on. can't multitask. number four in your supplement number four or in the moxur on page 1202 and know [singing] sheet. >> [singing] >> Lord Lord [singing] Lord [singing] glor. Glor. [singing] Oh, [singing] Eloh. Hua [singing] [singing] the [singing] I think I got tangled up. >> I got lost. >> [singing] >> And not in [singing] bottom of 1206 in [singing] the highest. [singing] Oh my [music] [singing] sh [singing] Oh, [singing] [music] you be seated. A reading before mourner's cottish. According to an ancient Greek legend, a woman came down to the river sticks to be fied across to the region of departed spirits. Karen, the kindly fairy man, reminded her that it was her privilege to drink of the waters of Lee and thus forget the life she was leaving. Eagerly she said, "I will forget how I have suffered." And added Karen, "Remember too that you will forget have you how you have rejoiced." The woman said, "I I will forget my failures." The old fairy man added, "And also your victories." She continued, "I will forget how I have been hated and also how you have been loved," he added. Then she paused to consider the whole matter. And the end of the story is that she left the drought of Leth untasted, preferring to retain the memory even of sorrow and and of failure, rather than to give up the memory of life's loves and joys. Morners cottish is on 1216. If you're saying cottish, if you're in morning, if you're observing a yard site, if it's your tradition to rise for cottage, please do so. >> 1216 1216 >> 1216 >> Is this not working as well as it should be? of the love is dark. Amen. Amen. Shalom. Shalom. Amen. May the one who creates harmony above make peace for us, for all Israel, for all who dwell on earth. Let us say amen. This is how we end our rashashana morning services at Temple Bethhatilo in Olympia, Washington. And I want to teach it to you. The chorus goes up a little bit. You want some help? >> How's that better? Amen. [singing] Amen. May this be our blessing. Amen. I'm going to do listen and repeat. I'm just singing it for you first. Amen. [singing] Amen. [singing] May this be our blessing. Amen. Okay, listen. Amen. [singing] Your turn. Amen. Amen. [singing] Amen. May this be our blessing. May [singing] this be our blessing. Amen. Amen. Let's put it together. Amen. [singing] Amen. May this [singing] be our blessing. Amen. Then it's exactly the same except for the last part. Amen. [singing] Amen. May this be our blessing. Amen. May we be blessed as we go on our way. May we be guided [singing] in peace. peace. May we be blessed with health and joy. May this be our blessing. Amen. Amen. [singing] Amen. May this [singing] be our blessing. Amen. [singing] Amen. May this be our blessing. Amen. May we be sheltered by the wings of peace. May we be kept in safety and in love. May grace and compassion find their way to every soul. May this be our blessing. Amen. [singing] Amen. [singing] May this be our blessing. Amen. [singing] Amen. Amen. [singing] May this be our blessing. Amen. No, we want to say to all of us. >> Oh, all of us. >> Anyway, here is really fluid. >> So, unlike last night, today I'll be telling the truth when I say we have apples and honey. >> [music] [music]